From what I have heard the PS3 failure rate is fairly low. It is on par for occasional individual systems to have individual problems. I have yet to hear of one overly encompassing problem. This disc reading error seems to be the closest thing to a widespread issue and I have only heard of the people in this thread that have had it happen.How long have you had your PS3? I am just hoping the PS3 has a longer life span than the xbox360. I want to eventually get one but it would suck to find out both systems start to die after 9-12 months if played on a regular basis. That seems to be about the average life span for the 360 is 9-12 months.That is funny that they send a coffin for the PS3 also. lol Microsoft has always sent a coffin for our 360s that died. My brothers was the fastest return I have heard of. We sent it out on a monday and got it back repaired by Friday. Only 4 days.
How long has the ps3 been out? I know it took over a year before the 360's starting having major problems. Then it was just one after another over and over again still to this day. I love the games for the 360 and the online is incredible but holy crap the console itself is extremely unreliable and unstable. I just dont want the same thing to start happening with the PS3. Thats why I am waiting until next year 2009 before I think of getting a PS3. I really want a blue ray player but I want a good one. Not sure how good the PS3 blue ray player is compared to others.From what I have heard the PS3 failure rate is fairly low. It is on par for occasional individual systems to have individual problems. I have yet to hear of one overly encompassing problem. This disc reading error seems to be the closest thing to a widespread issue and I have only heard of the people in this thread that have had it happen.
How long has the ps3 been out? I know it took over a year before the 360's starting having major problems. Then it was just one after another over and over again still to this day. I love the games for the 360 and the online is incredible but holy crap the console itself is extremely unreliable and unstable. I just dont want the same thing to start happening with the PS3. Thats why I am waiting until next year 2009 before I think of getting a PS3. I really want a blue ray player but I want a good one. Not sure how good the PS3 blue ray player is compared to others.
Dang already out for 2 years? Time flies by and that is great news about the PS3 only having approx 1% failure rate. I am pretty sure I will be getting a PS3 in 2009 for sure. Especially for the blue ray player. Thats the main reason I want one.PS3 came out in November 2006 in the US/JPN and in March 2007 for the rest of the world.
PS3 is probably the best blu-ray player on the market, mainly because it is updatable, so if new blu-ray features come out then new PS3 FW will add those features.
As said above, PS3 failure rate is very low (approx 1%), and industry standard failure rate for all consumer electronics is approx 3%.
XBOX 360 on the other hand had failure rates of up to 33% at its peak!
One and a half years.How long has the ps3 been out?
Unfortunately, the high failure rate of 360's was being reported as early as six months after they were released. It's only that they had fewer sold back then (3.5 million units), thus a 30% failure rate would mean about one million consoles experiencing the RRoD. Where as today that number would have grown to over 5 million... Thus giving a greater opportunity to be more aware of those with problems.I know it took over a year before the 360's starting having major problems. Then it was just one after another over and over again still to this day.
If that's the only thing holding you back then you should feel overwhelmingly confident in being able to get one any time you like. After all, as an industry average for electronic goods, having a failure rate below 10% is pretty good, and below 5% is superb.I love the games for the 360 and the online is incredible but holy crap the console itself is extremely unreliable and unstable. I just dont want the same thing to start happening with the PS3. Thats why I am waiting until next year 2009 before I think of getting a PS3.
If you do a Google search on Blu-ray comparisons, and or look at the many shootout threads on A/V Forums sites like AVSforum and HomeTheaterForum, you'll quickly discover that for the last year and a half, the PS3 has consistently outperformed most other Blu-ray players, including many that were selling for twice the price of the PS3.I really want a blue ray player but I want a good one. Not sure how good the PS3 blue ray player is compared to others.
I am pretty sure the failure rate has to be much higher for the 360 than 33%.
I for one am looking forward to your PS3 experience... as I have always admired your enthusiasm for games, and the excellent screenshots and photos you have taken in Forza 2 and PGR4, and would love to see what kind of photos/screen grabs you are able to take with some of the PS3 games as well. 👍Thanks for the reply. Thats a lot of great information about the PS3. I am going to have to start lurking in the PS3 forums more often because I know I will be getting one eventually. 👍
Thanks for all the kind words Digital.I for one am looking forward to your PS3 experience... as I have always admired your enthusiasm for games, and the excellent screenshots and photos you have taken in Forza 2 and PGR4, and would love to see what kind of photos/screen grabs you are able to take with some of the PS3 games as well. 👍
BTW: Despite no photomode, I am quite impressed with some of the screen grabs from GT5P that people have been sharing:
I have no doubt with your eye for composition as seen in your Forza 2 & PGR4 shots, you would be able to come up with some amazing screen shots from GT5p. (cough early christmas present for myself) 👍
Right I had the same problem as everybody else with my 60gb PS3, which I purchased on the release day in the Uk, Could not load/read disks, Ps3 Games,Blu-ray,Dvd's or downloaded games. I phoned Sony or were more than happy to do a 24hr changeover for a re-manufactured console, I prepared the console for the swap by transferring my game saves/data, music e.t.c, but decided to do a 'Restore PS3' which took approx 3.5 hrs which I assume takes it completley back to it's factory conditions.
This has worked perfectly it is just like new, I now have a problem do I keep my one in the hope this does not happen again? Or do I replace it with a re-manufactured product (basically new console)?
This has cost me 2-days of gaming time and emotional pain & about 6hrs of my life in all (phone calls,testing games,dvd's,Cd's,Blu-rays) can't get back, with the fact I have to re-sign up to the Playstation network, replacing everything the restore has reset, but I am a little pleased that potentially a restore could be the answer to this problem.
What do you think? I have to make a decision today as the console swap over is scheduled for Monday, I would need to cancel it today?