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So about 5 months ago I buy a PS3 so that I can play Demon's Souls. I didn't expect it to be almost $80 to import the game so I decide to just wait it out until October when it gets released. The only thing my PS3 did from July until then was play BluRay movies (which it doesn't out put at 120hz so I had to buy a better one just to catch up with my TV anyways). October finally rolls around and I buy Demon's Souls and play it for maybe 3 hours the first night and 6 hours the next day. A couple of days later, after figuring out how I wanted to try to kill Flamelurker, I fired my game back up. It loads for a couple seconds and then my screen goes all crazy and the PS3 stops responding. I do a hard reset and try again... same thing. I call Sony and they tell me to send the thing on into be repaired. I wait for the box, pack it up, send it to them. I call them to check on the status and they say they were unable to fix it but that they are sending me new one. Awesome. The new one comes and I'm all excited about finally being able to start replaying the game that I bought the drat system for. I take it out of the box, pull all the stupid little plastic stickers off of it, hook it up to my tv and fire the bad boy up.... So this one does not read any disks at all. I sent them a machine that would freeze when loading something and they sent me a machine that doesn't even get to that point. I call them back and we go through the whole back and forth about factory resetting it and making sure I got the newest update. So they finally say that I need to send it in to them again so they can try and fix it. This would be loving hilarious if I didn't pay almost $500 for a machine that I have got maybe 20 hours of entertainment from. Are PS3's really this bad? Is Sony really this lovely with customer support? Or am I just one of they few unlucky ones that happened to get 2 poo poo systems in a row?
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 00:25 |
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| # ? Nov 21, 2009 04:17 |
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Would have been better to put this in the Ps3 thread, but it's not been known to be prone to failures. Saying that though, all 3 systems have had reports of them failing. The 360 is the biggest culprit, I believe they even lost a lawsuit because of it.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 00:26 |
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Just sounds like bad luck. You're the first person I've seen who got a broken PS3 back from Sony. Bigger concern is what you said about your PS3 not outputting 120Hz. Please tell me you didn't actually buy another Bluray player because of that. The player isn't supposed to output at 120Hz. TVs have that refresh rate because it's a common multiple of 30, 60 and 24.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 00:36 |
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I'm guessing if you have 3 PS3s in less than 5 months that you are doing something wrong to them hope this helps
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 00:37 |
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Aphrodite posted:Bigger concern is what you said about your PS3 not outputting 120Hz. Please tell me you didn't actually buy another Bluray player because of that. The player isn't supposed to output at 120Hz. TVs have that refresh rate because it's a common multiple of 30, 60 and 24. Yeah this confused me as well. Every single PS3 is capable out outputting 1080p24 which is what you want if you have a 120hz capable TV.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 00:40 |
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My PS3 lasted exactly 367 days and then poo poo itself. Then I bought another one which I've babied like crazy, and then the slim came out two weeks later. The first one probably broke because I didn't keep it ventilated properly, moved it around a lot, and generally didn't care well for it. I wish it was like my old-rear end 360 though. It got the RRoD, I hit it with a hammer and it worked again.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 00:41 |
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FWIW my PS3 and 360 are both still A-OK, but I had my Wii for so long before the proper SD card functionality was implemented and before I actually got one that its warranty had long run out before I discovered that the SD drive on the unit is actually broken in that I can't get the card back out. I don't really need to get it back out though and don't feel like paying for a fix or replacement, so v  vEdit: Also this house has a habit of getting REALLY dusty really fast so all my consoles are probably full of the stuff and yet they keep on truckin' somehow. MonkeyforaHead fucked around with this message at Nov 07, 2009 around 00:47 |
| # ? Nov 07, 2009 00:43 |
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I've had one for almost a year now and it has not had any problems whatsoever. Its the 80 gig backward compatible version that was bundled with MGS4. My cousin marveled at this when he was at my house a few months ago as he had sent his 360 in to be repaired like 3 times and it kept loving up. I guess its just luck 
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 00:45 |
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evilalien posted:Yeah this confused me as well. Every single PS3 is capable out outputting 1080p24 which is what you want if you have a 120hz capable TV. Huh, I have no idea why the PS3 output looked so much different than the BluRay player then. Doesn't really matter now anyways since I wouldn't be able to even watch them if I hadn't bought a new player.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 00:54 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Huh, I have no idea why the PS3 output looked so much different than the BluRay player then. Doesn't really matter now anyways since I wouldn't be able to even watch them if I hadn't bought a new player. The PS3 has quite a few Bluray settings you have to adjust.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 00:55 |
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You are very much in the minority.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 01:00 |
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Had the PS3 since launch, still going strong.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 01:02 |
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My launch PS3 was working great up until about 5 months ago. I now have gone through 2 PS3's in the course of 5 months. I know its probably just bad luck, but it's frustrating as hell
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 01:03 |
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My disc reader poo poo the bed after 11 months of casual use. I read somewhere that the PS3's failure rate was around 2%, while the 360 is somewhere north of 30%. I'm lucky in love but poo poo out of luck in all other aspects of life. $180 repair because I couldn't find the receipt I put away for safe keeping. I hope my new disc reader is bulletproof and stays part of the 98% which haven't failed yet.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 01:08 |
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Sounds like you just had a stroke of bad luck, PS3 failures are not out of the ordinary but it's by far the most reliable of the two next-gen machines.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 01:14 |
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Crazy. I still have my launch 360 which has had beer spilled on it and an entertainment center crash down around it and its still working fine. Meh, whats another week or two without the thing, its not like I was doing anything with it before hand anyways. Maybe I'll go play Demon's Souls at my brother in laws and just save my game onto a memorystick.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 01:31 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Crazy. I still have my launch 360 which has had beer spilled on it and an entertainment center crash down around it and its still working fine Gee and it is a wonder why your PS3 keeps breaking down.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 01:33 |
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Node posted:Gee and it is a wonder why your PS3 keeps breaking down. Well in his defense, his second PS3 didn't even work out of the box.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 01:39 |
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Node posted:Gee and it is a wonder why your PS3 keeps breaking down. Yeah, if I beat the hell out of it I wouldn't question why it had broken at all. But only running a few hours and loving up and then getting one right from the factory that won't read any disks? Thats just some bad juju.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 01:57 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Crazy. I still have my launch 360 which has had beer spilled on it and an entertainment center crash down around it and its still working fine. Meh, whats another week or two without the thing, its not like I was doing anything with it before hand anyways. Maybe I'll go play Demon's Souls at my brother in laws and just save my game onto a memorystick. Yeah, about that. The save's locked, so you can't copy it off the system without backing up the entire drive (which then can't be restored to a different system).
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 01:58 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Yeah, if I beat the hell out of it I wouldn't question why it had broken at all. But only running a few hours and loving up and then getting one right from the factory that won't read any disks? Thats just some bad juju. Happened to me with a 360 - red ring out of the box when I got my 'new' one back from being repaired. I've had one failure, yet i'm on my third one. It's just bad luck - you've still only had one fail and a major fuckup on their part.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 02:01 |
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House Party 4 posted:I read somewhere that the PS3's failure rate was around 2%, while the 360 is somewhere north of 30%. The 360's failure rate is over 50% and the PS3 is somewhere around 10%.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 02:12 |
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After reading your posts so far in this thread, here is my conclusion : You are a liar.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 02:21 |
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VIDEO GAMES
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The PS3 sucks because when playing blu-rays it doesn't magically create 5 times as many frames than the 24fps the movie was originally filmed at. I want miracles from my blu-ray player dammit!
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 02:23 |
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Xythar posted:The PS3 sucks because when playing blu-rays it doesn't magically create 5 times as many frames than the 24fps the movie was originally filmed at. I want miracles from my blu-ray player dammit! It would need to actually read the Blu-rays in order to even attempt the miracle. I got a hosed up one and the company mailed me another messed up one. I was just wondering if this was common or not. Don't get all pissy because some dude on the internet happened to have problems with a system you like. Its also pretty well known that the PS3 isn't that great of a Blu-ray player anyways, and that's not the function I purchased it for to begin with. edit: quote:Yeah, about that. The save's locked, so you can't copy it off the system without backing up the entire drive (which then can't be restored to a different system). drat it... If this game wasn't my absolute favorite game to come out in the last several years I would be waaaay more pissed about all of this. Solice Kirsk fucked around with this message at Nov 07, 2009 around 02:38 |
| # ? Nov 07, 2009 02:35 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Its also pretty well known that the PS3 isn't that great of a Blu-ray player anyways, and that's not the function I purchased it for to begin with.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 02:47 |
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Yeah, I think you're mixing that up with the 360 being a miserable DVD player. Edit: Solice Kirsk that is, not Almost Smart.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 02:51 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Its also pretty well known that the PS3 isn't that great of a Blu-ray player Wrong again!
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 02:55 |
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Is he like... trying to half-troll or is just misinformed entirely?
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 03:09 |
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That article is retarded. Self-selection bias says hello. The fact that Game Informer is its source should have been a dead give away. 10% failure rate, i.e. 2.5 million broken PS3s? Sony would be having a PR nightmare right alongside Microsoft.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 03:12 |
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Yeah dude I think 15 million+ broken Xboxes is a bit unrealistic.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 03:21 |
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Sounds like an anomaly. I've had my 40gb fat PS3 for 2 years with no problems and everyone I know with one hasn't had any problems with theirs. I'd chalk this up to bad luck or Sony just sucking with their replacements.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 03:26 |
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fineX posted:Yeah dude I think 15 million+ broken Xboxes is a bit unrealistic. is it bad if I could entirely believe this?
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 03:28 |
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There actually has been a huge glut of broken PS3s since September/October when the new firmware came out. My very well-treated PS3 had it's bluray drive die out of warranty, so now I'm the proud owner of a 350 dollar streaming media center. There is no way I'm sending it in to Sony and paying 150 bucks for them to fix their mistake. Fake edit: Apparently their warranty length is one year, so even though the site says it's out of warranty, apparently it isn't? I need to call Sony asap.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 03:31 |
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My friend's BlueRay player has to load the movie before it can play. Also there has been patches that requires him to connect the player to the internet. The Ps3 has been named one of the best Blue Ray players, just like the Ps2 was one of the best DVD players back in it's time.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 03:33 |
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I've had mine for a little over a year, with no problems other than a few isolated crashes and the fan being a bit loud. I'm actually a bit surprised by this, as I have six cats. You'd think the Law of Averages alone would make that thing a brick, but there it is. In any case, if it ever does break down, I'm basically going to nag Sony's loving head off until I get a good one again. Your situation sounds more like bad luck than anything. It sounds like they're going to send you a new one anyway, though, so hopefully third time will be the charm.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 03:34 |
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This thread is so Console Wars.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 04:04 |
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:Would have been better to put this in the Ps3 thread, but it's not been known to be prone to failures. Saying that though, all 3 systems have had reports of them failing. The 360 is the biggest culprit, I believe they even lost a lawsuit because of it. That's because it has a 55% failure rate and I'm not quite sure as to why the PS3 has a "failure" thread and the 360 doesn't.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 04:06 |
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fineX posted:Yeah dude I think 15 million+ broken Xboxes is a bit unrealistic. I could easily believe it. I went through 3 myself, including one that was DOA back from Microsoft, before giving up on the platform entirely.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 04:10 |
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SexHaver1978 posted:That's because it has a 55% failure rate and I'm not quite sure as to why the PS3 has a "failure" thread and the 360 doesn't. It's 6000+ posts long and and two years in the making.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 04:31 |
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