Bloody PS3!

[aww999]

I had my PS3 replaced twice in the last eight months because it stopped reading discs, and it happened again last week for a third time. Apparently they no longer send replacement units out, instead they repair your current one. It was picked up on schedule, and came back to me about a week later, which was yesterday. I played it last night for about 20 minutes, the screen fronze, it crashed back to its "desktop", and now it won't read discs again!

Am I cursed or are they really that unreliable? Has this problem been properly fized in later models. perhaps I coul insist on Sony giving me a new one?

[Gun]

From what I've read they're very reliable, mine has only crashed twice while I've owned it and that was on the same game (Assassins Creed). Is it getting enough air where you keep it as they do get really hot, overheating might cause parts to warp?

[aww999]

There's no chance of it overheating, I felt it just after it had crashed and it was only slightly warm. I'm certainly not cooking the thing, I reckon it only gets used about two hours a week. I should put the Sony number on speed dial!

[Altrezia]

What model is yours, out of interest?

[aww999]

I think it's a 40 Gig, bought just before christmas last year. I got about four months out of it the first time before it went pop, another two months and it happened again. I left it unrepaired until last week because I was studying for my OU exams and I didn't want any distractions. Finished my exams, got FarCry2 coming today, and it's broken again a day after being repaired! Sony are sending a replacement console out to me on tuesday, I can't really fault their service but it shouldn't be neccessary in the first place!

[Gun]

dibbers006 said:

Gun said:

From what I've read they're very reliable, mine has only crashed twice while I've owned it and that was on the same game (Assassins Creed). Is it getting enough air where you keep it as they do get really hot, overheating might cause parts to warp?

This is a Software issue, not the PS... mine did it as well as a lot of other people (everyone)

Don't blame the PS!!

Mine always seemed to do it when I was jumping across the rooftops, my Xbox on the other hand crashes all the time!

[wildoliver]

I sold mine in frustration for the same fault, got a new one swapped and got shut of it. I will say they are more reliable on average then xbox by a substantial degree. Consequently I have neither currently. I am considering a wii though.

[MrTom]

Are you laying it down or standing it up?

[Negative Creep]

Now you know how us 360 owners feel

[wildoliver]

To be honest I refuse to support an item which isn't fit for purpose. Both these machines are excellent but hopelessly unreliable. It really is unacceptable to launch a machine (either) that suffers from overheating, chips coming adrift, psu failures and blu ray failures. Either release a reliable machine or don't bother, we wouldn't put up with cars like this so why electronics goods?

[Norbury90]

I'm coming up to 2 years with mine, had no problems whatsoever. No freezing or crashing, its great. Mine is a 60 gig.

Saying that, my friend is on his third 60 gig after he had a couple of dud ones. All sorted out very quickly though.

[rebelstar]

I've had my PS3 for all of 3 days, and I started getting very bad graphics corruption in 720p and below. 1080i/p were fine but unfortunately that's no good for the games I've bought.

Then popped in a regular DVD and it somehow fixed itself and the games are fine again.

Is this a known issue? I Googled and couldn't find any similar problems.

[rebelstar]

No, it's not that - it was all fine and I hadn't touched any of the settings before or after. I suspect I've got a bad 'un so I'll keep my fingers crossed that it doesn't happen again, else it's going back to the shop.

[Chr1sch]

I have had mine for 8 months and it has crashed once whilst online .........cant fault it to be honest!!