I've got a launch 60GB and have nearly 400 WU's completed in the folding at home application, not to mention 100+ hours on Warhawk alone. No problems here, and this thing was folding 24/7 in the summer with temps in the 80's+.

PS3 = Beast machine!

My PS3 has had no problems...except I had to buy a new HDMI cable for some reason.

I got RROD on my launch 360 after 2 years and 2 months of heavy usage.

The second day I had my Wii it freaked out and had to be sent in...It blared some disgusting sound and would compumap (new term) the screen after the Press A screen...

Truthfully, from my point of view MS and Nintendo both did well in their service departments. But I only had to interface with my friend the Innertubes for the MS return. I actually had to talk to somebody about the Wii return, which was pleasant.


I still think all of this fanboyism is mostly just financial jealousy on the part of the partakers. You want it all, but you cant have it.

PC gaming sucks.

@DrNutt:

Technically, we were walking the fine line between genius and insanity.

no problems here. the worst ive had are game freezes and lost network connections- both are very, very rare. i bought my ps3 on january 2nd of '07 and it gets used on a daily basis (on occasion its on for 10+ hours). its kept upright and currently has 8 inches of free space above it, a few inches on either side, and 6 inches behind (the most cramped its ever been). it also endures hot, lengthy summers in a dusty house w/o AC. it fires up, works, and sounds like the day i got it.

i also had the same problem, i own a 20 gig ps3 was working fine up intill a couple days ago where i got the error code. i spoke with a sony rep and he told me that my blue ray lense is no good that i need to send it in for repair, i bought it in jan of 2007 so the 1 year warranty is up by two months, so sony said i would have to pay 150.00 dollars for an exchange, i was on the phone with sony for almost 2 hours trying to resolve the conflict, its only two months give me a break, so just wrote to (corp) waiting on email

Gameboi lol sady lol,

Well Ive hard some occasional freezes here and there... byt my PS3 is on 24/7... If im not playing im Folding@home... and when I get home from work... I switch to UT3 or PixelMonsters for some relaxation, then I get on my PC back to work and I put the PS3 back to folding.

I never had a console on for so long in my life.

(oh yea and midgit porn before going to sleep... you guys should try it o_O)

*Remembers the nightmare of having to turn his PSone upside down to get it to work.*

I have less trust for Sony than I do the other console makers. I have had way more problems with their products than anyone else's. I've had one XBox die on me before, but that's it. My XBox 360 has never once given me a problem though. I've never had any problems with a Nintendo console, well, other than the occasional problem with the NES, but that's an early console so that's kind of expected.

Don't get me wrong, I loved my PSone and PS2, but I don't trust Sony's work at all.

RROD is largely due to bad design and shoddy/cheap construction, where this is likely a result of the mass production process; which will always turnout some defunct components. It's as simple as that.

Though who really knows. Sony had some major issues with the disk drives on first (maybe second as well?) run PS2's, so long-term degradation on the PS3 disk drive is entirely possible. I'd say if the console makes it through Xmas without increase with this error it's nothing to worry about.

Sharpless says:
04/09/2008 14:18
@Hells_666
You are a waste of space.

So, we have the Red Ring of Death, now Sony could have a Blue Ray of Death, now Nintendo needs a Green Light of Death and we'll have a full set.


still licking butts of Dtoid writers ... poor you ... you should get a life

Sony has not made a console with DEcent hardware in it's entire existance since it keep puting in cheep disc drives..

Sony got sued for the ps2 drive errors as they was just as cheep and big as problem as the xbox 360 failures.

Then there is the ps1 ohh how I could go on it's worse than the xbox 360 in terms of death rates.


and to this day I have not s seen a launch model or close to launch model PSX. (AKA everything before the slim tiny PSone) that did not die a quick death at the hands of final fantasy 7 or any other RPG on the things.

Remember having to turn those poorly made sony consoles upsidown to get the game to stop skipping and read disc?>


of course you do everybody who purchased a non slimsline had this problem and if you did not then you got one where they fized it at the end.


Great consoles sony, Im not sure how people forgot and stopped complaining but hey in 1995 to 1999 everybody complained 24-7/

OG yes and before I paid to buy a ps1 to play my games I bought on I rented a bunch of them, every single one rented had skippy music, videos, or would not read a brand new scratched disc.

from diffrent rental stores too no less so I rented about 10 over a few months of course I thought sony console and controler was junk, the only thing worth anything in it was the CPU and GPU design that worked great until the CD drive died.

but HEy it keept getting game that was only on that damned ps1,that used to be on sega or nintendo so they forced me to but one and it died, so I had to buy a slim model. SO sega and nintendo screwing up made it so sony could throw out cheep consoles with cheep parts getting us where we are now thanks SEGA and nintendo.

@Cube: Do you remember that report that says the PS3 has one of the lowest failure rates for a game console in... oh, more than a decade? They get those numbers based on usage, not popularity. Complain about the lack of games all you like, but the machine is built like a tank. If you had problems with the PSOne, well... that's holding a grudge over quality for just a bit too long, don't you think?

I just received this error three days ago. The blu-ray drive has failed which means I can no longer play PS3 games or Blu-ray movies. I can still; however, play PS2 games, PS1 games, and DVD movies... and anything from the hard drive. I am not sure on the specifics but I guess it has something to do with the blu-ray laser.

Anyways, I called Sony up, gave them the error number and a detailed description of what happened and the steps I took to try and correct the issue. They set up a return and are sending out the materials so that I can send in my unit. The entire call took less than 5 minutes which shows that they got right to the point and took care of the issue instead of making it more difficult than it had to be.

**NOTE**
And for those concerned about sending in their 60GB PS3s here in the US, I specifically asked them if they had any issues with the supply and replacement of the 60GB PS3s and they told me that there was absolutely no wait or any problems whatsoever.

I just replaced my PS3 last Monday due to the Blu-ray drive dying on me. At first, I thought I had a unique problem but I was surprised to discover through google search that many people seemed to have the exact problem. Xbox has its Red Ring of Death, I christen this the Blu-Disc of Death...any takers?

I am getting tired of the "powerful consoles" i.e. Xbox 360 and PS3, as each one has kneeled over on me. I am getting rid of the PS3 (mostly due to their horrendous customer service, it took them three attempts to swap my PS3 and I had to carry the heavy thing around for three days to my workplace!) I am going to stick to my good-as-gold Wii

I am officially getting that code now (80010514), if it reads the blu-ray disc at all. Just felt like popping an update for you all. Now awaiting my return materials. Typically from what I've seen, there's very low chance of failure if the system makes it through the first 6 months.

I can't wait for 80010514 error T-shirts

I thought PS3s mostly didn't break? Oh well, it had to happen eventually.

Red Ring of Death ju st sounds sexier than 80010514

I've seen and fixed 8 Japanese PS3 units at work so far, all have had dead lasers i.e. no DVD/CD/BRay but they never had an error code just no loading of disks.

JohnThEReaper617 says:
04/12/2008 10:35
Haha this kinda makes me laugh a bit. I don't own a ps3 personally but i remember when the RROD started the Sony fanboy nation was up in arms lol.

yeah i'm sure you remember that loll funny you don't remember all the bashing against the PS3 from last 2 years by M$ fanboys