console reliability

[skintagain]

ASDA normally sell the games on the first 2 days of release at a reduced price and most of the time this is £10+ cheaper than anywhere else, for big games that have midnight releases the ques at ASDA Gateshead can be over 1000 people so they nearly always sell out the first night,
as for console reliability a lad my son knows is onto his third PS3 slim.

[Shadow]

Mar 5, 2011 22:29:14 GMT 1 Shadow said:

We had to take our PS3 back last week too

It was four months old.Bloke in Game tried to suggest it was somehow our fault because of where it had been standing and said it must have overheated.Since it was on its own on a shelf that sounded completely unbelievable at the time.

I didnt realise it was a common problem

Anyway-they replaced it for us.I wonder how long this ones gonna last then

Well this one lasted up until Christmas day-nine months.And one month out of its original one year guarantee.Trailed the thing up to Game this afternoon and the most unhelpful uninterested sales assistant it was my displeasure to meet informed us that because it was out of that warranty it was no longer anything to do with them-we have to phone the people who are responsible for the extended warranty Game sold us and they will collect.I have now had 3 of these consoles and only one made it to a year old-just....broke down after 14 months-I am positive now that they must have some bloody chip or something inside designed to blow out everything just as the warranty is running out-or else they are just a load of badly made crap

[skintagain]

not had a problem with our ps3 since we got it replaced due to hard drive failure, it's covered by extended warranty till about Novemberish 2013, my sons arcade version Xbox 360 which is one of the first edition ones is still going strong which has amazed me, Microsoft seems to have fixed their problems while Sony are still having some, i still have my old ps1 and ps2 and they are still going strong looks like after these they threw reliability out the window.

[Shadow]

Yes our extended warranty runs out in November 2012-just in time for Christmas

Again.

If the Mayans have their way it wont be a problem

[Shadow]

Well finally got the PS3 back after weeks and guess what-its not bloody working-talked to the couldnt care less person on the end of the phone who gave the amazingly helpful advice that it must have been knocked in transit and we will have to send it back-we should receive the free postage label by Tuesday

They are having a laugh arent they

[skintagain]

i know exactly how you feel we had a 360 and the dvd drive died on it, phoned up the warranty people got a box with sticker already stuck on and sent it off, it took less than a week to get back but only lasted about 10 mins and it stopped reading discs, mind you they surprised us they came out pretty quick and collected and less than a week later they gave us a brand new 360,
hope you get your PS3 back quickly and working.

[Shadow]

Im at the end of my tether now-got the console back again yesterday-the boys had about an hour on it when it started playing up again with exactly the same fault it was originally sent off for-The company will be getting a phone call off us first thing Monday morning-Im not prepared to send it again-they can come and get the bloody thing this time and it had better come back in full working order or else I expect a replacement

[skintagain]

give them hell let them know how mad you are, if you try to be nice them they just take the p**s, by right if the same fault is recurring they should replace the console, read the extended warranty it may have something about recurring faults.

[skintagain]

my sons PS3 hard drive has decided to go to silicon heaven, the PS3 was only bought in January so it's back to ASDA with it tomorrow, i dont know why but it seems a common problem with the PS3s his Xbox 360 is still going strong afrter 4 years and 6 months.

[skintagain]

took the ps3 back with everything in the box as it was when i bought it and they exchanged it straight away for a new one, hope this one lasts, the hard drive is not such a big deal it's easy to replace but while it's still under warrenty im not going to fiddle with it.