----------------------------------- ashiphire Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:12 am Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- I'm not sure if there is already a topic on this (but i did search for it) My PS3 broke 1year and 1 day after i got it. what happened was that I put in Little Big Planet and right after the Playstation 3 thing came up it froze, so i restarted it and then it would not read any disc that I put in. So i called Sony and they said it would cost $190 to fix it. And since it was a Christmas gift and it was bought 3 weeks prior to when i got it for Christmas, the warranty was out. I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else. ----------------------------------- Zeroth Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:18 am Re: Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- Hmm, I think you should contact consumerist.com instead of us. They might be able to help you. ----------------------------------- ashiphire Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:27 am Re: Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- Hmm, I think you should contact consumerist.com instead of us. They might be able to help you. I didn't even know of this site But what i want to know is if this has ever happened to someone else, not how to fix the problem (my PS3 is already fixed) ----------------------------------- Joel92 Wed Mar 04, 2009 5:30 pm Re: Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- Actually this exact same thing happen'd to me about 2 weeks ago. Froze, and hasn't been reading discs since. Weird... ive had it a little over a year aswell, this problem is very common. ----------------------------------- saltpro15 Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:02 pm RE:Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- I have an Xbox 360, 4 months, no problems so far, and even if it breaks well my dad's work sells them so I can get it refurbished for free ;) ----------------------------------- OneOffDriveByPoster Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:13 pm Re: Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- There is random speculation of something called the Sony Timer. ----------------------------------- ashiphire Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:48 am Re: Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- I have an Xbox 360, 4 months, no problems so far, and even if it breaks well my dad's work sells them so I can get it refurbished for free ;) just wait for another 8 months an it'll probably will have broken every single one of my friends that has a 360 has had to either get anew one or get it fixed due to hardware failures non of my friends that have a PS3 have had to get it fixed ----------------------------------- Zeroth Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:15 am Re: Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- Okay, I hope we all understand the difference between "anecdote" and "sample sizes", right? Well, an anecdote is a sample-size of one, and is therefore, unscientific to draw conclusions from. Same for sample-sizes of a few friends. The problem is that the human brain adds significance where none actually is. You look at the time it broke and see that it was coincidentally beneficial to Sony, so it looks suspicious. But consider random chance. Let us say we have a batch of 1000. 100 of those 1000 will fail with a gaussian distribution within a year. That means that 33% of that 100 will break very shortly after the 1 year warranty mark. That also means there is 33% that break very shortly before the warranty mark. Then consider which we will hear about more, and also place more importance on: the ones that break after. Its a self-confirming bias, just like "prophetic dreams", because we only remember the dreams when a coincidence happens, but we never remember the hundreds, even thousands of times our prophetic dreams got it wrong. This is not to belittle your stories or accuse anyone of making things up. Just to point out that due to these considerations, you have to take these stories with a massive grain of salt. Asking on a random compsci forum will not give you conclusive answers. If there really was a problem, consider what a group like say Consumer Reports(which owns consumerist.com) would do if they heard about this problem with the PS3s. They would talk about it, and the other news groups would definitely pick it up. ----------------------------------- ecookman Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:14 am RE:Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- yeah my friend had this problem too. not wanting to spend lots of money to have it repared...he used the good 'ol smack it 'till it works method, (not recomended) and it now works. @ashiphire i know someone who has had their 360 for about 2 years, and still no RROD. ----------------------------------- andrew. Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:45 pm Re: RE:Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- i know someone who has had their 360 for about 2 years, and still no RROD. Cross your fingers and knock on wood. Those old models have faulty motherboards that are even worse than the newer ones they have now. ----------------------------------- saltpro15 Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:50 pm RE:Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- like I said... I get mine fixed the next day for free, so enjoy your RROD suckers :p ----------------------------------- rdrake Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:32 pm Re: RE:Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- like I said... I get mine fixed the next day for free, so enjoy your RROD suckers :pYou're an idiot. Wake me up when your blu ray player can play games. ----------------------------------- saltpro15 Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:02 pm RE:Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- lol if i want a ps3 i'll get one, I'm thinking about it actually because my ISP has blocked Xbox Live unless I pay an extra 20 a month subscription fee, yet wireless gaming on my brother's Wii works fine :( I hate the ps3 controller though too, grr decisions, decisions... ----------------------------------- ecookman Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:01 am RE:Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- lol or, you can put 600 bucksinto your computer and have a pretty kickass one ----------------------------------- andrew. Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:33 pm Re: RE:Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- lol or, you can put 600 bucksinto your computer and have a pretty kickass oneThis is smart. For $600 you can have a nice gaming machine. The only setback is that your friends will still be playing 360 or PS3. ----------------------------------- octopi Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:37 pm Re: RE:Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- lol if i want a ps3 i'll get one, I'm thinking about it actually because my ISP has blocked Xbox Live unless I pay an extra 20 a month subscription fee, yet wireless gaming on my brother's Wii works fine :( I hate the ps3 controller though too, grr decisions, decisions... Why not get a decent ISP instead, I wouldn't tolerate something like this. ----------------------------------- ecookman Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:55 pm RE:Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- hmmm me either i would walk over there be like heeeeaaaayyyyy then blend their fingers until they unblock it...MUHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA was that excessive lol ----------------------------------- Insectoid Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:04 pm RE:Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- Yes. ----------------------------------- hossack Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:58 am RE:Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- OMG broken PS3 must suck! ----------------------------------- implosion Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:34 am Re: Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- I hate the ps3 controller what ? are you kidding me, the ps3 controller is WAY better than the xbox controllers ----------------------------------- rdrake Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:48 am Re: Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- I hate the ps3 controller what ? are you kidding me, the ps3 controller is WAY better than the xbox controllersHe didn't say that. Besides, you are wrong. ----------------------------------- Clayton Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:25 am RE:Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- The evidence behind these arguments is astounding. ----------------------------------- loganelvald Sun Mar 29, 2009 1:41 am Re: RE:Broken PS3 ----------------------------------- like I said... I get mine fixed the next day for free, so enjoy your RROD suckers :p Xbox sucks though. Gaming pc's for the win.