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Busted PS3 Dilemma
brucie97 \| 12:00 AM on 02.19.2009	22 comments

So I'm a huge clumsy idiot and dropped my Ps3 while in transit to the Girlfriend's house. It is a (near) launch
60 gb triple (full backwards compatability).

It seems that I have a few options:

1. Fork out the $150 to get mine (possibly) fixed. When it dropped, no outside physical damage happened,
but the mount that holds the outside faceplate solid to the torx screw holding it down broke so it slides freely
up/down. The Sony rep I talked to said any damage to it and they could send it back. Do you think it'd be
noticed? Do they send me out a refurb or fix my own console?

2. Purchase a blu-ray drive off ebay and replace it myself for ~$60-80. Possible miscalculations during
installation or shady dealers on ebay tend to give me the willies when dealing with hardware this expensive.
I am fairly confident I could replace the parts without much trouble, but moreso the ebay issue scares me.

3. The unethical choice: Go to walmart, purchase 80 gig ps3, swap it with my 60 gig and return it. If this
works it'd save me a bunch of cash, if it doesn't... ehhh.. Also, I'd lose any form of backwards compatability.
Its not that I play a whole lot of ps2 games anymore anyways, though I do not have a working ps2 or psOne
any longer, but the thought of having it there if I wanted to is enticing.

Tell me dToiders, what would you do in my situation?

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22 comments | showing # 1 to 22

garison says:
(# 0) on 02/19/2009 00:40

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.

Hamza CTZ Aziz says:
(# 1) on 02/19/2009 00:45

Instead of WalMart, use Costco if you got one.

brucie97 says:
(# 2) on 02/19/2009 00:51

@ 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

Qraze says:
(# 3) on 02/19/2009 00:55

send it in.

bluexy says:
(# 4) on 02/19/2009 01:00

Get it fixed. :) Go backwards compat!

ArrestedDeveloper says:
(# 5) on 02/19/2009 03:22

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.

10BobMarleys says:
(# 6) on 02/19/2009 04:29

Send it in, Foo'.

RonBurgandy2010 says:
(# 7) on 02/19/2009 06:33

You got a Sam's?

brucie97 says:
(# 8) on 02/19/2009 08:34

@ Ron: Yes I do..

@ Everyone saying to send it in: Think the lid brokenness will make them send it back w/o fixing it?

grassr00ts says:
(# 9) on 02/19/2009 09:03

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

elsteveo says:
(# 10) on 02/19/2009 09:58

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.

brucie97 says:
(# 11) on 02/19/2009 09:59

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.

Corak says:
(# 12) on 02/19/2009 10:06

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?

Corak says:
(# 13) on 02/19/2009 10:16

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.

brucie97 says:
(# 14) on 02/19/2009 10:47

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.

Primo says:
(# 15) on 02/19/2009 11:02

Don't do #3, that's straight up ghetto yo!

brainderailment says:
(# 16) on 02/19/2009 13:00

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.

Redzie says:
(# 17) on 02/19/2009 14:37

Sending it in to get another BC PS3 is worth it if you still want to play PS2 games.

The Prodigal Son says:
(# 18) on 02/19/2009 14:52

@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.

Corak says:
(# 19) on 02/19/2009 16:41

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.

brucie97 says:
(# 20) on 02/19/2009 17:53

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..

Artemus says:
(# 21) on 02/20/2009 20:46

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!

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