In a Tuesday statement, Sony Corp. has said that the 8001050F software glitch, which recently affected the users of non-Slim PlayStation 3 consoles worldwide, has been fixed. The error had prevented the PS3 users’ from accessing the PlayStation Network for over 24 hours.

The software glitch affecting the PlayStation Network (PSN) – which allows online game play, along with access to movies, television shows and other content; and boasts over 40 million registered users – comes at a time when Sony is all-set to release ‘Battlefield: Bad Company 2’ for its PS3 this week.

As per reports, the PSN issue was likely rectified on Sony’s server side; and the company neither issued any updates to repair the error, nor was any download required by the affected users.

Elaborating about the cause of the glitch, Sony said that the issue was essentially a “Y2K”-type of calendar change software problem which resulted in the malfunctioning of the internal clocks of some older PS3 consoles – with the clocks of the affected consoles erroneously categorizing 2010 as a leap year.

Though there are reports that all trophy and game save data of the affected users largely remains intact; Sony has still suggested that the users stop using their PS3 consoles for some period till it is fully ensured that the data
-including trophies, or accomplishments, earned during game play – is not lost.