My Playstation 3 just died.
 

The blinking red light taunts me while it refuses to give me back my Braveheart blu-ray. This is shaping up to be the worst weekend ever.

Red ring of disk nomming!

I guess your PS3 really doesn't like Mel Gibson.

I can't afford to buy another one and from what I read on Sony's message boards, I would rather not spend $150 to get the thing fixed. Tpww, please help me buy another PS3 :)

You can take mikes PS3 but you will never take his Bravehart DVD!

PS3s never break.

Clearly, you're lying.

WHY WOULD YOU LIE ABOUT THIS, MIKE?

ITS NOT A TUMOR

It's not Lupas

Fixed.

Fixed.

Fixed.

Please Kane Knight, please fix my Playstation 3. Or help me set an example. Either way.

Set an example? Are you going to execute your PS3 as a message to the rest to fall in line.

I was hoping that you would be able to write a strongly worded letter to sony accompanied by a picturte of the dismantled ps3. After all, that's what you do best - talk a bunch of shit until people see things your way, correct? That isn't a swipe at your character, I just imagine that particular feature of yours coming in handy at the moment.

Yes, which would mean his PS3 is a jew.

So are you blaming Mel Gibson or the Jews?

Jews, as always.

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Haven't had any problems with my backwards compatible, 2 year old 60gb PS3 at all. :cool:

Also, when PS3s die the light blinks yellow, not red. Not sure what the problem is for you though

Word on the street is Requiem is selling his 60GB (backwards compatible) PS3 and accessories.

Mine died like that 4 months ago, fixed it, broke again a couple weeks ago, said fuck it and bought a Slim.

I had a run of bad luck with mine once. The original one I had gave me the yellow light after I put a 320 GB harddrive in it. Paid the money, sent it in and got it fixed (apparently the power adapter/supply went bad). New one, installed the harddrive, no problem, but then in a few days (it was a refurb mind you), the discs stopped spinning (probably a bad laser or whatever.) That was in August. Got it back again (it was still under warranty from the first repair), and I've had no problems since.

Same, except mine's an 80 GB. Still BC, but hardware emulation is gone in favor of software.

Does it piss anyone off how easily systems stop working these days?
I was too young back in the days of SNES and N64 and not very in touch with the internet but I don't remember this type of crap happening that often.

I've had more problems with my NES back in the day then the PS3 now.

Got a brand new 360 so I hope it lasts me like, forever.

I went through 3 NESs until I got the toploader.

I've had 2 360s.

And I had two PS2s because it failed, too.

That's still no excuse for shoddy design. Yes, SNES and N64 were a lot simpler, but so was the technology back then. Shouldn't new systems be just as reliable, seeing as the technology for building them has become better also?

lol no.

One thing I'd note is that when the XBox's 54.X failure rate was "reported," the numbers for even the most reliable system, the Wii was nearly double what the electronics biz considers an acceptable failure rate.

Okay, so those numbers are likely wrong, simply because of the way the poll was done. But the console market really does seem out of step with normal electronics in a lot of ways, including price, marketing, and acceptable hardware.

I think it's more than just "systems are more complicated." I don't disagree that this is a portion of it, but really, there's a lot of other problems that go into it. Not the least of which being the still relatively niche market makes it easier to get away with higher than normal failure rates. As is evidenced by the PS2 last gen and the 360 this gen. Even if the 360's failure rate was only 10%, and in all probability it's much higher, that's most than three times acceptable standard. But there's no recall, no inquiry, and no boycott on any meaningful scale. Most other businesses can't do that.

I have to blow in my NES cartridges to get them to work damnit!

I think by Playstation 3, the OP clearly means XBox 360.

Big Fat Liar

In all seriousness, blowing into your NES cartridge can actually damage it over time. Blowing into it doesn't actually help--as the connector pins get older, it can be harder for them to establish a run with the system. The safest way to get the game to play is to just take it out, put it back in, try again. Repeat. Keep flipping the coin and eventually, it'll turn up heads. The reason blowing into it appears to help is that you're doing the same thing--disengaging the cart and then trying to reconnect--you're just also putting potentially harmful business into your catridge in the process.

The more you know. O:

Yeah I actually know that but it came years after doing it and actually reading the game instructions of one of the games. Essentially, I could have took out the cartrige, sacrificed a virgin and came to the same result but if I tried it first and it worked there would be a whole load less virgins in the world.