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My PS3 Died...
Topic Started: Monday Jun 4 2012, 10:08 AM (245 Views)
King Hiss
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Seriously, WTF!!! This is the worse generation of consoles by a long mile!

Ah well, went and bought a heat gun and some thermal compound to fix it up. Hopefully that works or else I'm importing another region A one. Half my Blu Ray collection is useless without it.
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One of the slims or fats?
Guessing you use it quite frequently on a regular basis?

I think if I was to buy Blu Rays I'd buy a dedicated player like the Oppo BR player and have the region unlock kit installed in it rather than using the PS3. Mainly cos its easier to get the region kit installed in those than PS3 :/

Having said that, I did keep my PS3 in a bit more of an enclosed cupboard until recently and gave it some more airflow out the back and tried to keep it dust free. (In other words, never use the fucking thing. :) )


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hahaha, did you put it next to your xbox? :P
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It's a fat. I use it all the time. I've owned it since well before region unlock kits.

No, the new 360 is at the other end of the TV. Touch wood, the slim seems to be a big improvement, but I don't play it as much as I used to with the old ones.
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Wish my ps3 would die, I hate dusting it.

Your right about this generation, never had a console break up till the original Xbox. Used to treat them pretty bad too. These days I always have to have a backup 360 ready to go.

Sorry for your loss.
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I still don't understand everyone's PS3 hatred when the hardware has proven more reliable, PSN games are of far higher quality, there are more exclusives and it does everything far quicker without the need to navigate a clunky and useless dash. All because it lacks the feature to have random friends of friends hop into your party chat and crap on about some Assassins Creed game loudly while you're trying to play something? Anyone who's known me long enough knows I fucking hate Sony, but given the choices, I'm befuddled by the loyalty to a company who has both dished up a clearly faulty product and then continued to try and milk every last cent out of it at the expense of the actual gaming experience. Just saying, since everyone likes to mention how much they don't play their PS3, like, all the time.

It could be said that the first Playstation is where the rot began. I have no idea why people thought it was acceptable to have to turn their console upside down to stop it from overheating. But yeah, the original Xbox is where it got ridiculous. It didn't register on me as much since I was always in there modding the crap out of the thing, so I was replacing each busted part with a better one, but I essentially lost the hard drive (very early on) and two DVD drives from that thing. Anyone else would have hurled it. For my third DVD drive, I managed to get the elusive Samsung model, so that sorted it.

It could be argued that cartridge based systems are a bit more robust due to the lack of moving parts, but I have a very highly used and much travelled Saturn and Dreamcast that say that's a bullshit defence. I can't say I've ever heard of Gamecubes or Wii's dying en mass either.

Thanks for your condolences Wolfman. I operate tonight, so hopefully my loss will be short lived.
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The ps is definitely not faster or user friendly from my point of view. Most of exclusives I don't care about, 9 out of ten times multi platform games are worse on the Ps as well. Every thing just seems harder to do on it. I only keep it for Gt4 coz I have a wheel but never use it as loading times are painfully slow and it takes for ever to set up.
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If you can't see the speed difference in maneuvering and loading things up between the dashes, then I have nothing more to say. The 9 out of 10 times for multi-plats was so 3 years ago too dude. You can even argue in the other direction in some cases.

The GT5 load times have also significatly dropped since the last big update. They seem to be far more reasonable now. Enough that a non-car enthusiast like me isn't bothered by them anyway.
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No I agree about the dash speeds, the xbox's quick play button needs a rename. But it doesn't bother me. Guide button functions on the Xbox run laps on the ps.

Tell ps3 skyrim players it was 3 years ago. ;)
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One game dude. That was patched.
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Was is bro, was it.
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By most reports.

I can raise you a Portal 2 and LA Noire if you want?
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Yeah I got both of them on the ps

Speaking of portal I'd love to go through co op with you hiss if you haven't yet.
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I've only played co-op with a drunk mate, so yeah, I'd be keen.

Another point in favour of the PS3 - much easier to fix than a 360! Back in action! :D
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Jammers and I are currently running through portal co-op when we get time free, and it's totally worth it. :D
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You wouldn't believe my luck. Died again! Not the same issue though. After the missus spent most of it's rebirthed time watching a shit ton of Eureka, I fired up my newly downloaded Virtua Fighter 5 and had a game. When I quit out and went to the XMB, well, wallpaper was all I got. Rebooted and was told it needed to rebuild my database. Froze doing that, so then it said it needed to restore my filesystem. As many times as I restarted and crossed my fingers, it would get to 47% and then tell me it needed to format. Not a lot of saves fit in the cloud, so alot of my stuff would be gone.

There was apparently a possibility that it was a bad sector, and doing a dd copy in Linux to a new hard drive would get my image over, and then the system restore would get past the 47% with a slight loss in data. So a new 750Gb hard drive and a whole night later I came to the conclusion that it was all wishful thinking. :(

So, I at least upgraded my hard drive. Been spending the last two days managing my download queue. Was going to get back into Fallout New Vegas sometime soon, but that's all gone... Borderlands- gone... Those are the things that cut the most.

How unlucky is that though? Two unrelated fuck ups in two weeks.
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Me thinks you probably have the touch of death on hardware and anything electronic related. ^o)


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Sorry to hear that bro. Sounds like you put in a good effort, I didn't understand any of that.
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it actually turns out there's a small group of people that actually give off a small EM field and simply being near electronics can cause them to break unless protected from said field. I'm afraid your cursed with that hiss and your gonna have to go live in a monastery away from technology for the rest of your life :P
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Would explain the shit couple of weeks I've had at work....
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