As many PlayStation 3 owners discovered on Sunday, a PlayStation Network outage has more or less shut out those who don’t own PS3 Slim models from playing online or even network-reliant offline games on the system. Joystiq reports on the latest developments, including publishing a statement from Sony. Sony has said the error stems from a bug in the system’s automatic clock updating function, which is not only preventing games from booting up but could result in players losing stored trophies and other networked content. As such, the company has advised those experiencing the errors not to turn on their systems until there’s a fix. The statement says a fix is expected in the next 24 hours. As of this post the latest update on Sony’s Twitter feed was more than four hours old and without any further updates. You can read more, and also jump to Sony’s blog and Twitter feed, at Joystiq.