Playstation 3 Discussion

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Originally Posted by CLW

It's odd I've owned all three PSs from basically launch and all 3 of them survived until I threw them away when I upgraded to the next-generation.

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My PS worked for years upon years, and my PS2 that I got back around 2001 or 2002 still works like a champ.

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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn

Everyone tells me I have the opposite happen of what happens for everyone else. I've had 2 360s and I've never had one break. I had a launch 360 last me clear up until I got my Gears of War 3 version slim last winter and the only reason I upgraded at that point was because of an amazing deal. It was still working just fine and so far my Gears one has been great...no problems.

On the flip side, I had a launch PS3 die after a year a couple days. I had another fat model die after a year and a few days. I then even went as far as having a slim die after only a year and 5 or 6 days. It was the bluray drive each and every single time. That's one of the reasons I can't wait until Microsoft and Sony both start becoming more accepting of digital content delivery.

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Yeah, I've had pretty good luck with my 360s. My first 360, the disc drive started going bad after a couple years, getting stuck and being a bitch to actually get to open up to remove or insert discs, but other than that, there were no issues with it. And no problems whatsoever so far with my new 360 slim that I got last year. Some of my friends with 360s have had 3 or 4 of 5 different 360s since launch.

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Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes

Yeah, I've had pretty good luck with my 360s. My first 360, the disc drive started going bad after a couple years, getting stuck and being a bitch to actually get to open up to remove or insert discs, but other than that, there were no issues with it. And no problems whatsoever so far with my new 360 slim that I got last year. Some of my friends with 360s have had 3 or 4 of 5 different 360s since launch.

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I've always had a theory that while there were design flaws that caused overheating, a lot of the issues with 360s dying(especially 4 or 5 times or more) were user caused, aka not giving the back of the system enough room to blow air or even sitting the thing on carpet. I've always given all my systems plenty of room to breathe on a wooden surface and I've never, ever had any overheating problems of any kind. I think if people would actually learn how to take care of their shit, there would have been a lot less broken 360s.

I mean, I've heard of people going through 7 or 8 360s in a 5 year period. There's absolutely no way they're not doing something to break it themselves.

Also, this thing is pretty!

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17zk...jpg/xlarge.jpg

I've only went through one PS3 and one 360. My fat PS3 got the YLOD, but I sold it for $150 on eBay. My first 360 was used, and two weeks later RROD'd, but the seller offered a 30 day warranty thankfully, and that other system is still kicking as I sold it to CDJ when I bought an Elite. I use an old school wooden TV cart to put both systems on.

I'm technically on my 4th.

• My first console I returned within 30 days because my USB ports wouldn't work.
• I replaced my second one around the time slims were launched because I was afraid it was failing when it would freeze at the exact same spot on LBP every time despite every troubleshooting step, plus Gamestop was having a big trade-in credit.
• Most recently I replaced my 3rd one last year because if I removed a disc, I would have to finagle with it in order to play a Blu-Ray disc and around that time Amazon had a good sale so I jumped on it.

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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn

I've always had a theory that while there were design flaws that caused overheating, a lot of the issues with 360s dying(especially 4 or 5 times or more) were user caused, aka not giving the back of the system enough room to blow air or even sitting the thing on carpet. I've always given all my systems plenty of room to breathe on a wooden surface and I've never, ever had any overheating problems of any kind. I think if people would actually learn how to take care of their shit, there would have been a lot less broken 360s.

I mean, I've heard of people going through 7 or 8 360s in a 5 year period. There's absolutely no way they're not doing something to break it themselves.

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Yeah, I've always kept my 360s off by themselves with my game collection on a wooden desk next to my TV/entertainment center. It's sitting on top so it's completely open air, nothing around it on any side, nothing that would cause it to overheat. Plus I have a floor fan in the same room that I almost always have running on at least low to keep air circulating and to just keep the room cooled down in general.

Did they have an update that increased the time it takes to install a downloaded game or something? It takes FOREVER for my games to install. I just installed a 108MB game and it took 2 minutes. I realize that may not sound like much, but for a file that small, that's a really long time. Anything over 1GB easily takes 15 minutes. Maybe it's because I haven't used my PS3 in awhile, but I don't remember it taking anywhere near that long to install anything.

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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn

Did they have an update that increased the time it takes to install a downloaded game or something? It takes FOREVER for my games to install. I just installed a 108MB game and it took 2 minutes. I realize that may not sound like much, but for a file that small, that's a really long time. Anything over 1GB easily takes 15 minutes. Maybe it's because I haven't used my PS3 in awhile, but I don't remember it taking anywhere near that long to install anything.

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I noticed this, but I was chalking it up to my new HDD.

Figured out my problem. It only goes that slow when I'm downloading something else while installing. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, but okay.

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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn

Figured out my problem. It only goes that slow when I'm downloading something else while installing. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, but okay.

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:nod:

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Unboxing. Porn for gamers. :nod:

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Originally Posted by JBHuskers

Unboxing. Porn for gamers. :nod:

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Looked like a POS to me. My fatty has

#1 larger hard drive :nod:
#2 more USB ports :nod:
#3 Backwards Compatible :nod:

I mean seriously who cares about the cheesy top loading disc and the "super slim" design? It's a F'n video game console that sits on my desk.

I don't like that top-loading disc at all. For one, my console sits in my TV stand without too much room above it. I could fit my hand & game in there, but it wouldn't be comfortable. Added, it gives it a cheap feel to it. I hope I never have to replace my current console. If so, I'll probably just pay the repair fee.

That spring loaded disc cover is going to be the first thing to break. That looks like a cheap piece of junk.

I don't like top loaders either. Better chance of ruining the lens. Especially if you swap out games a lot.

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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17zk...jpg/xlarge.jpg

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The new PS3 reminds me of the 1980's clock radios...

http://forums.watchuseek.com/attachm...ge_7-4800a.jpg

PS3 STILL doesn't ship with HDMI cables in the box? :fp: That is one thing I loved with the 360, I never owned a HDMI cable until I bought my HDTV back in 2008 and got my first 360, never had to worry about having to go out and buy one.

Agreed with you guys, that top loader looks horrible and looks cheap as shit. If you change games a whole bunch, guaranteed that ends up breaking at some point. And no backwards compatible? Yeah, screw that. If I were to ever buy a PS3, I'm going for one of the current ones, screw the super slims.

Yah. Zero interest.

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Lol just out of curiosity what do you guys think I could get out in the "free market" for a launch (i.e. "fat" but backwards compatible) PS3 with an upgraded 1 TB hard drive?

I gotta bet its prob (or at least "should") be worth more than this "super slim" PS3

I went through 1 PS3. Bought my original FAT one back in 2006 I believe? After 2 of my 360's crapped out.

My FAT one went out twice, once the beginning of this year and just recently about a month or so ago. Was able to fix it with no problem but still decided to get a new slim one 2 weeks ago.

Of course I took meticulously good care of mine, cleaning it out every so often, letting it "cool" a bit before shutting it down, etc. Although I didn't do that the entire time of owning it, probably the last 3 years or so.

now the ps3 screws up with madden in it when you try to log out/turn off from psn account management ....? sigh

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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn

I've always had a theory that while there were design flaws that caused overheating, a lot of the issues with 360s dying(especially 4 or 5 times or more) were user caused, aka not giving the back of the system enough room to blow air or even sitting the thing on carpet.

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I'm guilty of that. It wasn't obvious to me, until my launch PS3 YLOD'd, how little air flow was going through it. Not like a PC, where I knew exactly what was going on internally (how many fans I had, internal temp, etc).

My friend's 360 RROD'd when I was trying to install a Guitar Hero that was failing to play from the disc to her HD. It was on the carpet, but I don't think that was the cause. I think it was just a freak thing.

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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn

Figured out my problem. It only goes that slow when I'm downloading something else while installing. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, but okay.

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It's probably poor memory management. Since the PS3 has so little on-board memory, it's probably struggling to keep the memory locations in cache.

Look at what just showed up:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

I can't wait to begin wanting to smash my own face in while playing God of War III in whatever they call their hardest mode.

By the way, I love these collections. I'm probably going to end up having most of them since I never got around to playing a lot of them when they were released individually.

Nice may have to get this. Love the GOW series.

Of course I am fan of Greek Mythology anyway

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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn

Look at what just showed up:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

I can't wait to begin wanting to smash my own face in while playing God of War III in whatever they call their hardest mode.

By the way, I love these collections. I'm probably going to end up having most of them since I never got around to playing a lot of them when they were released individually.

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95% of my gaming on PS2, especially on the tail end of the console was sports gaming. I just got the Ratchet And Clank Collection too, another series I haven't played.

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Originally Posted by ram29jackson

now the ps3 screws up with madden in it when you try to log out/turn off from psn account management ....? sigh

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This hasn't happened to me. Played last night and logged out, quit game with no problem.

I was having the problem with all games not just Madden prior to doing that method.

How do you quit from Madden on PS3 then? I ended up swapping copies because my stupid 360 wont stay connected to my WiFi anymore, and every time I quit the game it quadruple x 12 beeps my PS3 until it turns off.

Yeah, JB, 90% of my PS2 gaming was good ol' NCAA Football. The other 10% was the amazing SOCOM II.

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Originally Posted by JBHuskers

I just got the Ratchet And Clank Collection too, another series I haven't played.

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You were missing out. Glad to hear you picked it up ... personally I think the Ratchet & Clank series was the best first-party series on PS2, and the PS3 series upped the ante. If R&C had come out (and been technically feasible) on the PS1, I think Rachet (or Clank) would be the PS mascot.

Yes, I'm a huge, undeniable fanboi of the series.

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Originally Posted by JeffHCross

You were missing out. Glad to hear you picked it up ... personally I think the Ratchet & Clank series was the best first-party series on PS2, and the PS3 series upped the ante. If R&C had come out (and been technically feasible) on the PS1, I think Rachet (or Clank) would be the PS mascot.

Yes, I'm a huge, undeniable fanboi of the series.

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I just played one when I got the game for free on PS3 and I honestly couldn't stop playing it. Reminded me of a Mega Man like experience from the NES days but with a TON of funny humor in the cut scenes/story line.

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Originally Posted by CLW

I just played one when I got the game for free on PS3 and I honestly couldn't stop playing it. Reminded me of a Mega Man like experience from the NES days but with a TON of funny humor in the cut scenes/story line.

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I saw you said that, but wasn't totally sure you were talking about it ... just because I didn't get the Mega Man connection. Now that I think about it, it makes sense. And yeah, the humor is the best. And it's only gotten better as the years have gone by. I'm definitely looking forward to playing the HD collection and replaying Crack in Time.

I've only played a Crack in Time and I had a blast with that so I'm sure I'll be picking up that collection once I'm done with God of War. Sony is genius for releasing these collections. I almost creamed my pants when they announced the original Killzone in HD with trophy support and I'm looking forward to that coming out next month more so than I am any other game in the foreseeable future. If they really want to impress me, give me a SOCOM collection with 1 & 2 with a HD overhaul, trophies, and then online for S2 WITHOUT MESSING WITH IT. I've heard rumors of them doing something involving the past SOCOM games, especially recently, so my fingers are crossed.

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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn

I've only played a Crack in Time and I had a blast with that so I'm sure I'll be picking up that collection once I'm done with God of War. Sony is genius for releasing these collections. I almost creamed my pants when they announced the original Killzone in HD with trophy support and I'm looking forward to that coming out next month more so than I am any other game in the foreseeable future. If they really want to impress me, give me a SOCOM collection with 1 & 2 with a HD overhaul, trophies, and then online for S2 WITHOUT MESSING WITH IT. I've heard rumors of them doing something involving the past SOCOM games, especially recently, so my fingers are crossed.

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Yeah I'm def getting KZ1. And would cream my pants at a SOCOM HD Collection.

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I would be willing to seriously buy a PS3 if they released a SOCOM HD collection. I still have SOCOM and SOCOM II sitting in a box somewhere. My PS2 is still hooked up and sitting on top of my DVD player. I may have to hunt down SOCOM II sometime and relive some of the past spent playing it.

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Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes

I would be willing to seriously buy a PS3 if they released a SOCOM HD collection. I still have SOCOM and SOCOM II sitting in a box somewhere. My PS2 is still hooked up and sitting on top of my DVD player. I may have to hunt down SOCOM II sometime and relive some of the past spent playing it.

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Well I don't want to start a conspiracy theory, but all signs are pointing to an imminent remake. I follow SOCOM very closely and while it once appeared that the stars would have to align to get Sony to realize how much everyone loves the old SOCOM games, it appears they're starting to align.

On the Blog.Share where people share what they want, SOCOM I and II remakes have been at the top since the beginning of the program. Items like God of War and Ico remakes were on the list but behind SOCOM and they got made, so it makes you think Sony does actually listen to that feedback. Shortly after Zipper Interactive was shut down, one of the old employees of the team made an account on the SOCOM forums and posted about how they were basically forced to create a Call of Duty clone with S4 by Sony. When asked whether they were looking at an HD remake while he was there, he very clearly stated Sony had begun looking at the code for a possible remake months prior.

A few months after the closing of Zipper Interactive, the Sony President literally said "SOCOM is not dead" and that was only a few months ago.

Then when Sony made a blog post about the recently announced "Playstation Collections," one of the users asked about a possible collection with the old SOCOM games. Not only did he get a response, but it was a juicy little cryptic response:

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Thanks for the heads up Cristian ! I’ll be sure to play these! Theres far to much focus on realism and graphics now days! Its great to be able to have that old school gameplay back! Its would be awesome to get a HD SOCOM US NAVY SEALS! The new socoms just dont even compare to the amazing gameplay of socom 1 and 2! Are there any plans for this Cristian? Thanks in advance!

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I couldn’t tell you, even if I knew. We will have more to add to this line, though. That’s all I can say =)

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As if all these recent comments/events weren't enough, just last month Sony FINALLY shut down the servers for all the PS2 SOCOM games right on the 10th anniversary of the first game. Like I said, I very well could be wrong, but it seems as though the stars are aligning to me.

Sweet. Yeah, after listening to the peanut gallery all summer about how I should buy a PS3 because of the sports games, SOCOM and SOCOM II alone would convince me to buy one. I could not even possibly try to count the hours and hours and hours I spent playing those games back in the day.

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Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes

Sweet. Yeah, after listening to the peanut gallery all summer about how I should buy a PS3 because of the sports games, SOCOM and SOCOM II alone would convince me to buy one. I could not even possibly try to count the hours and hours and hours I spent playing those games back in the day.

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Well shit, if it was that easy to convince you ill start making up random stuff and floating it on the boards on the web to convince you to buy a PS3 haha

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Originally Posted by psusnoop

Well shit, if it was that easy to convince you ill start making up random stuff and floating it on the boards on the web to convince you to buy a PS3 haha

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:D Yeah, I could not even possibly count the hours I spent playing SOCOM and SOCOM II back in the day. Some of the most fun I ever had on PS2. If they brought them back as part of a collection and in HD, I would buy a PS3 for that collection.

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Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes

:D Yeah, I could not even possibly count the hours I spent playing SOCOM and SOCOM II back in the day. Some of the most fun I ever had on PS2. If they brought them back as part of a collection and in HD, I would buy a PS3 for that collection.

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Then you could buy Tiger for PS3 too :nod:

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Anyone ever heard of Tokyo Jungle? It comes out this Tuesday on PSN and if you haven't heard of it, look it up. It's one of those games that I shouldn't care about but do because of how stupid/weird it sounds. :D

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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn

Anyone ever heard of Tokyo Jungle? It comes out this Tuesday on PSN and if you haven't heard of it, look it up. It's one of those games that I shouldn't care about but do because of how stupid/weird it sounds. :D

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Are there jungles in Tokyo?

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