[Phalanx]

Yep, more info for you here MM.
The game has continued to have ongoing issues on ps3...about 30% of the ps3 related cases I've dealt with have been GTA4 related, and maybe 10% of those seem to have, as Rockstar would obviously like it put "coincidentally had problems at the same time that a console has had a disk reading error"
Riiight.
I say they'll throw up some firmware within the week.
See...this is a problem we're going to have with a lot of games - they'll be far more prone to fucking up, on account of the fallback "we can add firmware" policy I'm sure many a company will adopt in this generation...while rushing out these GREAT games. :rolleyes:

Although in all honesty I think that the manufacturing of the PS3 is getting better - I mean there's like 10 models of the slimline ps2 just here, obviously there was a reason for that - but, the good news is, the CECHH02 model (this is the second run of 40GB ps3s of this region, the first was CECHG02), which are the ones that came out with the GTA/GT5P packages, and as I understand it, the ones that'll be shipping from now, are not prone anywhere NEAR as much as the former 2 models to have problems...Looks like they may have overcome the closest thing we had to the red ring of death.