Guy Sues Sony, Saying Firmware Update Bricked His PS3

[wraggster]

You read enough of these and you begin to understand why giant corporations have huge legal divisions. A Florida man filed a class-action suit on Friday saying his PS3, purchased Jan. 3, 2009, was bricked by September's firmware 3.0 update.

John Kennedy filed his complaint against Sony Computer Entertainment America on Oct. 3 in, where else, federal court for the Northern District of California. That would be San Francisco.

The suit's complaint mentions two things: one, "that as a general rule, Sony ‘encourages' PS3 owners to install the latest version of system software, Sony required users to install the Firmware 3.0 update." Two: a Sony forum featured enough complaints about the Firmware causing console failures that Sony responded with a firmware FAQ.

At this point we put on our hushed baritone court-reporter fine-print voice: Class members demand declaratory relief, compensation and restitution for breach of implied warranty, negligence and unjust enrichment.

http://kotaku.com/5375018/guy-sues-sony-saying-firmware-update-bricked-his-ps3

[Mc_Logical]

lol What an idiot! I mean come on man! seriously does he think he will win? guys like this... nevermind

[Stew2000]

Don't Sony put something in the firmware agreement so people can't do this?

[dcdood]

could work i guess... as long as there is something that is his fault (Exploit\hack\mod) he has a chance of winning, because this is Sony's System installing Sony's Code using Sony's installers. so if this is the case, well hes lucky..

PS3\PSP always force you to update when unneccesary, ps3 cant get info if not using new FW, both have no PSP Store if older FW is found, so that should kinda be on them...

[DPyro]

All he'll end up with is a refurbished PS3.

[acn010]

no... this wont work... he agreed to accept the agreement before installin it... but.. who knows.. time will tell