Earlier this month Sony released the official, long-awaited firmware 3.21 for the PS3, an update which (quite controversially) removed the ‘Install Other OS’ option from the and “discouraged” users from dual-booting. Many people are quite angry at Sony’s decision to rip the feature out, but now the update is causing stability issues for some users.

The issues that have recently come up have been reported at the PlayStation Forums, and issues include not being able to turn on the unit, inability to load discs, freezing while loading discs, and more headaches similar to this.  Users are up in arms, and understandably so.

We hope Sony is hard at work trying to restore these users to playability and fix what has been a huge hassle for some users. Sony really needs to more carefully test and debug future releases, or it could damage the rep of a great game machine that’s just really hitting its stride about now.