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I would say just pay the $150 and get Sony to fix it. I wouldn't want any of that shady stuff on my conscience.
Instead of WalMart, use Costco if you got one.
@ GARISON: See this is what I was thinking, though the thought of sending it off for however many weeks and having them send it back to me with nothing done because of the busted cover would anger me.
@ Hazma: No Costco, but perhaps Pamida or KMart, both a little more shady than Walmart haha
send it in.
Get it fixed. :) Go backwards compat!
I'd get it fixed mainly because I use the back compat quite a bit, I can't fix things well and like ripping people off.
Send it in, Foo'.
You got a Sam's?
@ Ron: Yes I do..
@ Everyone saying to send it in: Think the lid brokenness will make them send it back w/o fixing it?
From personal experience- they just sent me a refurb, so be careful when sending it in, make sure to back up your data ect. More than likely you won't have BC anymore. I'd probably try and fix it myself if I had known how.
Goodluck
I would send it in and put a note on it that you have a BC version or something along those lines and if they do send you a refurb hope they have the decency to send you back one that is BC. I've never dealt with sony on matters like this well or microsoft but just hope it works out.
I guess I don't know how from personal experience.. There are, however, multiple videos on youtube detailing the experience and it does not seems SO difficult.
Thanks for the comments guys. The internal turmoil that is going on inside my head is about to drive me insane. ESPECIALLY considering I have a 42" HDTV being shipped to me as I type. Figures that I'd have to go and screw my ps3 up when I finally can experience the full HD glory.
Send it in. Let them know about the damage up front, if you don't they'll blame it on you and send it back anyway and possibly still charge you the $150. Be as vague as you can. If they think you tried to slip something past them you'll get nothing. Also from personal experience like grassroots I sent my 60g in to get fixed and they sent me a refurb back, but it was another 60g model for the $150. Something I love them for as I sold my PS2 last year. I wasn't able to back my shit up though since mine wouldn't power up anymore. So if you send it in back up your saves beforehand, pen drive works great.
You could try the Wallmart or Costco thing, but if they scan the serial number when you buy one and then check it when you try to return the other unit I'm not sure if they'll still do it. I know I wouldn't, but I don't work at Wallmart so I don't know how they handle it, I used to work at Best Buy and that stuff doesn't fly there.
A question I have is why were you lugging your PS3 to your girlfriends house? Were you staying there a long ass time?
Also my PS3 bricked the eve of the Dark Knight DVD/Blu-Ray release. Yup I had the Dark Knight in the mail, Blu-Ray coming that very day, and my PS3 bricked the night before. Maybe not as bad as getting an HDTV but I feel your pain. I had to look at that damn movie for 3 weeks and couldn't do shit with it.
Corak: Throwing a movie on a flash drive and plugging it into my ps3 is MUCH faster than burning a dvd, though with 20/20 hindsight I'd much rather have waited to burn the disc.
Don't do #3, that's straight up ghetto yo!
I'd send it to sony brah! I dropped mine from a short distance when taking it home from work. I worry that it's probably going to go bad eventually now.
Sending it in to get another BC PS3 is worth it if you still want to play PS2 games.
@brainderailment: I got a 60GB launch PS3 and it's ancient. I couldn't imagine it surviving a fall. If yours still works then count your blessings. Mine would probably explode from a 1 foot drop.
Also man, if you transfer movies to your PS3 by Pen drive thus taking up space look into a streaming software. I've used tversity, free, works for both 360 and ps3, streams music and movies from your PC right to the PS3.
I have been transferring them by pen drive. This is because streaming through the windows media player server I set up doesn't have enough buffer bandwidth or something and doesn't stream nicely anymore (used to stream fine). Perhaps too many torrents or something and my isp is throttling it now, I'm not certain. Or maybe a patch sent out by Sony screwed something up. Who knows..
Send it in...
Hope for the best...
And be more careful next time, son.
My Wii is on its way back home to Nintendo, the damn thing won't read discs!