Ps3 Failure Stories...

Drez

BTP wrote:

Henroid wrote:

Ohhhh the forum is going to be a fun place today...

But seriously, the next little while is going to be interesting. There has to be a limit to the amount of bad PR Sony can take until it finally negatively affects them.

With the amount of negative press and opinion they've generated, only one thing can balance it out and save them:

http://www.globalorgasm.org/

Drez

Fallout wrote:

Drez wrote:

The PS3 IS a failure story.

Yeah? Shit, that was quick. When's the PS4 come out?

I'm not sure Nintendo will make one. They are going to buy Sony in five years, after all.

Henroid

BTP wrote:

Henroid wrote:

Ohhhh the forum is going to be a fun place today...

[img]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y285/BornToPlay/kefka.png[/ig] But seriously, the next little while is going to be interesting. There has to be a limit to the amount of bad PR Sony can take until it finally negatively affects them.

I predict many a usage of, "Son of a submariner!" from those who are cheated out of their PS3.

Epiphyte

ghost_master2000 wrote:

Target Practice wrote:

ghost_master2000 wrote:

Epiphyte wrote:

TelMarine wrote:

ghost_master2000 wrote:

oh.. I thought this was going to be about hardware failures.

YAY I GOT PS3! NOW TIME TO PLAY _________! "Disc Read Error" *george constanza* SONYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

There's a dude over on SA who had precisely that happen to him. Bricked right out of the box.

I anticipated failures, but not right out of the box. Wow... a $600 14 lb paper weight.

Er... for any highly sophisticated product, there will inevitably be lemons "out of the box".

true, not only for "highly sophisticated" products, but pretty much any sensitive devices.

I honestly think that if it's so new that it isn't proven reliable yet, then it shouldn't be released to consumers.

This has nothing to do with reliability. If PS3's start failing over the next few weeks/months, then we can start talking about it. Right now, this guy just got really unlucky.

ghost_master2000

Epiphyte wrote:

ghost_master2000 wrote:

Target Practice wrote:

ghost_master2000 wrote:

Epiphyte wrote:

TelMarine wrote:

ghost_master2000 wrote:

oh.. I thought this was going to be about hardware failures.

YAY I GOT PS3! NOW TIME TO PLAY _________! "Disc Read Error" *george constanza* SONYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

There's a dude over on SA who had precisely that happen to him. Bricked right out of the box.

I anticipated failures, but not right out of the box. Wow... a $600 14 lb paper weight.

Er... for any highly sophisticated product, there will inevitably be lemons "out of the box".

true, not only for "highly sophisticated" products, but pretty much any sensitive devices.

I honestly think that if it's so new that it isn't proven reliable yet, then it shouldn't be released to consumers.

This has nothing to do with reliability. If PS3's start failing over the next few weeks/months, then we can start talking about it. Right now, this guy just got really unlucky.

true, bot honestly I think it's impossible for it not to have hardware failures. That's what happens with new technology. I mean look athe the 360. Every single person I know in real life has had to get theirs repaired/replaced except one, and he has his sitting on top of an AC dedicated specifically to the 360, and its's starting to have problems even with that care.

If the ps3 doesn't have a significant amount of hardware failures I will be astonished.

If that happened with my Wii (DOA) I would cry.

Drez

ghost_master2000 wrote:

Epiphyte wrote:

ghost_master2000 wrote:

Target Practice wrote:

ghost_master2000 wrote:

Epiphyte wrote:

TelMarine wrote:

ghost_master2000 wrote:

oh.. I thought this was going to be about hardware failures.

YAY I GOT PS3! NOW TIME TO PLAY _________! "Disc Read Error" *george constanza* SONYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

There's a dude over on SA who had precisely that happen to him. Bricked right out of the box.

I anticipated failures, but not right out of the box. Wow... a $600 14 lb paper weight.

Er... for any highly sophisticated product, there will inevitably be lemons "out of the box".

true, not only for "highly sophisticated" products, but pretty much any sensitive devices.

I honestly think that if it's so new that it isn't proven reliable yet, then it shouldn't be released to consumers.

This has nothing to do with reliability. If PS3's start failing over the next few weeks/months, then we can start talking about it. Right now, this guy just got really unlucky.

true, bot honestly I think it's impossible for it not to have hardware failures. That's what happens with new technology. I mean look athe the 360. Every single person I know in real life has had to get theirs repaired/replaced except one, and he has his sitting on top of an AC dedicated specifically to the 360, and its's starting to have problems even with that care.

If the ps3 doesn't have a significant amount of hardware failures I will be astonished.

It would be really bad if someone paid 11 million dollars for one on Ebay and then it didn't work or got fucked up in transit. What's the insurance cost on an 11 million dollar product, anyway? It has to be at least 4 or 5 bucks.

Kriz

aw, I thought this thread was about PS3 hardware failures.

I had my joke all ready too.

[spoiler:5ef7a6c2c5]Who had 4 and half hours in the pool bet?[/spoiler:5ef7a6c2c5]

Fallout

Drez wrote:

Fallout wrote:

Drez wrote:

The PS3 IS a failure story.

Yeah? Shit, that was quick. When's the PS4 come out?

I'm not sure Nintendo will make one. They are going to buy Sony in five years, after all.

Oh, sweet. I was planning on picking up Nintendo sometime in 2010.

Henroid

We can predict the following may have happened:

- Bad handling from the shipping
- Bad handling within the store

DevKimiko

Playstation 3 fails for having a small 's' in its acronym.

DOOM.

Drez

Henroid wrote:

We can predict the following may have happened:

- Bad handling from the shipping
- Bad handling within the store

- Badly handling himself while watching Blu Ray pornography.

thegloaming

I bought a 360 today so I'd feel good about myself.

The clerk showed me the store's one and only PS3 (just the outside box). It was huge. And it scared me.

Uriel

Drez wrote:

Henroid wrote:

We can predict the following may have happened:

- Bad handling from the shipping
- Bad handling within the store

- Badly handling himself while watching Blu Ray pornography.

PS3 repair shop guy: "Why is this PS3 sticky?"

Drez

Sony really outdid themselves this time.

And I mean that literally.

headn00b

Henroid wrote:

We can predict the following may have happened:

- Bad handling from the shipping
- Bad handling within the store

So what you're trying to say is that this lauch has been handled badly? I agree.

ghost_master2000

Henroid wrote:

We can predict the following may have happened:

- Bad handling from the shipping
- Bad handling within the store
- Bad handling during assembly

*fixed

When sony had to recall millions of batteries for catching fire and exploding (ok only a few actually exploded). you can't rule that last option out.

Sharp101

thegloaming wrote:

I bought a 360 today so I'd feel good about myself.

The clerk showed me the store's one and only PS3 (just the outside box). It was huge. And it scared me.

Oh be nice.

Drez

ghost_master2000 wrote:

Henroid wrote:

We can predict the following may have happened:

- Bad handling from the shipping
- Bad handling within the store
- Bad handling during assembly
- Bad handling of the Malaysian peasant children that put the PS3s together

*fixed

Henroid

Uriel wrote:

Drez wrote:

Henroid wrote:

We can predict the following may have happened:

- Bad handling from the shipping
- Bad handling within the store

- Badly handling himself while watching Blu Ray pornography.

PS3 repair shop guy: "Why is this PS3 sticky?"

Customer: "Uh, the blu ray melted. >.>"

ronzo

Sharp101 wrote:

thegloaming wrote:

I bought a 360 today so I'd feel good about myself.

The clerk showed me the store's one and only PS3 (just the outside box). It was huge. And it scared me.

Oh be nice.

I would like to point out that, unless the 360 and PS3 use different sized discs, the PS3 is in fact the larger system. Compare drive size.

Uriel

:roll:

360: 12 inches tall by 10 inches deep by just over 3 inches thick.

PS3: 13 inches tall by 11 inches deep by 4 inches thick

Henroid

Uriel wrote:

:roll:

360: 12 inches tall by 10 inches deep by just over 3 inches thick.

PS3: 13 inches tall by 11 inches deep by 4 inches thick

One inch increases on all sides are too much for nerdy undeveloped muscles to handle! :o

ronzo

Henroid wrote:

Uriel wrote:

:roll:

360: 12 inches tall by 10 inches deep by just over 3 inches thick.

PS3: 13 inches tall by 11 inches deep by 4 inches thick

One inch increases on all sides are too much for nerdy undeveloped muscles to handle! :o

Do we have box size comparisons? after all, he was talking about box sizes, not console sizes.

Drez

Avris wrote:

Henroid wrote:

Uriel wrote:

:roll:

360: 12 inches tall by 10 inches deep by just over 3 inches thick.

PS3: 13 inches tall by 11 inches deep by 4 inches thick

One inch increases on all sides are too much for nerdy undeveloped muscles to handle! :o

Do we have box size comparisons? after all, he was talking about box sizes, not console sizes.

They are both larger than Bigfoot, too:

Henroid

Bigfoot appears to have lost his feet. We must now call him Footloose.

Drez

Henroid wrote:

Bigfoot appears to have lost his feet. We must now call him Footloose.

More like Footlose.

ghost_master2000

Uriel wrote:

:roll:

360: 12 inches tall by 10 inches deep by just over 3 inches thick.

PS3: 13 inches tall by 11 inches deep by 4 inches thick

OMG!!! 143 CUBIC INCHES BIGGER!!! THa'ts HUUUUGE!

thegloaming

I'm not saying the 360 isn't big either, I'm just saying that I thought the box the PS3 came in was rather large. Of course, maybe it's because he was holding up side-by-side with a Wii box.

Drez

ghost_master2000 wrote:

Uriel wrote:

:roll:

360: 12 inches tall by 10 inches deep by just over 3 inches thick.

PS3: 13 inches tall by 11 inches deep by 4 inches thick

OMG!!! 143 CUBIC INCHES BIGGER!!! THa'ts HUUUUGE!

I heard God spake the dimensions unto the world and thus spake it had been spake that the length was 47 cubits of the Xbox 360 and 49 cubits for the PS3.

scrivenerjones

Drez wrote:

ghost_master2000 wrote:

Uriel wrote:

:roll:

360: 12 inches tall by 10 inches deep by just over 3 inches thick.

PS3: 13 inches tall by 11 inches deep by 4 inches thick

OMG!!! 143 CUBIC INCHES BIGGER!!! THa'ts HUUUUGE!

I heard God spake the dimensions unto the world and thus spake it had been spake that the length was 47 cubits of the Xbox 360 and 49 cubits for the PS3.

Right.

What's a cubit?

Sam

Fuck. Fuck.

It's depressing that people are willing to pay 6000 for one. 6 times the value of an already overpriced console, with hardly any notable launch titles.

360's never went for more than 1 or 2 grand did they?

Furu

PS3 failure stories?

- Here are the latest Japanese console software sales for the week of November 6 - 12:
Rank Game Title Platform Publisher Sales Total
1 Imasara Hito niwa Kikenai Otona no Joushikiryoku Training DS NDS Nintendo 102,240 451,106
2 Pokemon Diamond NDS Nintendo 78,744 1,682,896
3 Hoshi no Kirby: Sanjou! Dorocche Dan [Kirby Squeak Squad] NDS Nintendo 77,949 244,081
4 Pokemon Pearl NDS Nintendo 65,574 1,423,990
5 Zaidan Houjin Nippon Kanji Nouryoku Kentei Kyoukai Koushiki Soft NDS IE Institute 33,932 33,932
6 New Super Mario Bros. NDS Nintendo 27,361 3,393,921
7 Kawashima Ryuuta Kyouju Kanshuu: Motto Nouo Kitaeru Otona DS Training NDS Nintendo 24,166 3,412,008
8 World Soccer Winning Eleven DS NDS Konami 23,653 112,928
9 Ridge Racer 7 PS3 Namco Bandai 21,655 21,655
10 Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight PS3 Namco Bandai 21,310 21,310

thegloaming

Sam wrote:

Fuck. Fuck.

It's depressing that people are willing to pay 6000 for one. 6 times the value of an already overpriced console, with hardly any notable launch titles.

360's never went for more than 1 or 2 grand did they?

Isn't that 10 times the value?

At any rate, that's outrageous. Resistance looks like a damn fine game, but not 6000 dollars fine.

Sam

What the hell? DS outsells everything in Japan?

Drez

thegloaming wrote:

Sam wrote:

Fuck. Fuck.

It's depressing that people are willing to pay 6000 for one. 6 times the value of an already overpriced console, with hardly any notable launch titles.

360's never went for more than 1 or 2 grand did they?

Isn't that 10 times the value?

Not unless you use math.

Sam

thegloaming wrote:

Sam wrote:

Fuck. Fuck.

It's depressing that people are willing to pay 6000 for one. 6 times the value of an already overpriced console, with hardly any notable launch titles.

360's never went for more than 1 or 2 grand did they?

Isn't that 10 times the value?

Oh shit.

Hey it's 4 AM and it's been a bit of an unruly night.

Furu

Sam wrote:

What the hell? DS outsells everything in Japan?

Well, to be fair there's a hell of a lot more people with DSes than people with PS3s.

But again that is pretty much Sony's fault.

thegloaming

Sam wrote:

thegloaming wrote:

Sam wrote:

Fuck. Fuck.

It's depressing that people are willing to pay 6000 for one. 6 times the value of an already overpriced console, with hardly any notable launch titles.

360's never went for more than 1 or 2 grand did they?

Isn't that 10 times the value?

Oh shit.

Hey it's 4 AM and it's been a bit of an unruly night.

I apologize. I was trying to simply restate what you said using the correct number but ended up sounding like a smartass.

And we all know how unwelcome smartasses are around here.

Legacy

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/sony/hollywood-midnight-ps3-launch-excess-215513.php

"They made Guitar Hero II sessions virtually unplayable at this point, so, after discussing the Guitar Hero on PS3 problem and getting some bad news (it won't ever be playable),"

How about that for a failure story?

Oh well. Guess I won't toss my PS2 if I ever get a PS3. But that won't be for a while at least.

Uriel

I'm suprised so many people are buying the PS3. I'm wondwering how many are actually planning on keeping it rather than selling it on ebay or something.

I still think the 360 or the Wii will dominate this generation.