well my 60gb is just dandy...

...And in other news, the 360's failure rate is still 33%!

In other news reported from the future 360 failure rate jumps to 70%. Microsofts reply "you shouldn't play GTA4 so much" XD

and i heard the girl that worked there telling people people should wait till sony fix the overheating problem with the ps3.. i was like what???

and then her buddy was like yeah ps3s overhead all the time i had to send 2 back to sony..

apparently people think that because the ps3 blows a lot of hot air out that it is overheating.. but it's funny how their pcs do the same and it's perfectly fine.. just because the ps3 blows hot air it doesn't mean it's overheating.. it's suppose to do that

it's like saying that because that the radiator of a car it's hot then the car it's overheating.. the engine it's meant to get hot..

but i know a lot of people get paranoid and they really lack some common sense

this would appear a few days before GTA4?Can you say,Microsoft mud slinging much?

My 40gb PS3 works fine.
it's the SAME damn hardware as the 80gb PS3 units with a smaller HDD, However.. It does Not have a PS2 Graphic Synthesizer.

PS3 Reliability rumor just in time for GTA4. Just as the tide is about to turn some BS rumor shows up. The plot thickens.

For the record, I love both my 360 and my big black shiny baby the PS3, but I had the dreaded 40gb failure myself. Not only did it suck out loud, but customer support kinda sucked hard also, wrote a blog about it, wanna hear it, here it goes.. http://ps3complaint.blogspo...

edit: so even though I support both systems, the fact that I have had my originally 40gb system fail gets me a disagree.. isn't that wonderful.. and if you look at the blog it tracks dates so you'll see that I didn't just write it 5 mins ago. It's funny, poster asked if anyone had probs and I answered, but since I didn't say it was a bunch of hype I must suck.. lol

to come forward with ps3 failure stories lol. Why do you guys approve this crap?

...Nearly everyone here knows that I bought it 11/17/2006, so needless to say I've used it HEAVILY ever since, but that's still no excuse imo.

I'm out of warranty so I owe Sony $150 for another. Stupid me, I bought a two year warranty for my 20Gig and not for my 60 thinking that it would last the test of time, but I just plain wore that machine out.lol I used to never turn it off for months at a time, and now I'll probably never be able to turn it on again. 8D

There's no question that I will get it replaced when I get back to the state (away from home right now), but there's also no doubt that PS3's aren't immortal either. I'm just glad the bastards will replace it with a 60 which are like the perfect balance of machine in my eyes. (they shoud have never got rid of them).

Thank God I have my 20Gig here in the hotel room with me to play 1 player games and PS2 games (replaying all of the Metal Gears & even Killzone) -- because it has no wireless, so I just have to drool over all the things I'm missing right now as I see all of the updates and such on N4G.

Most of you guys know how much of a retard I am for Gran Turismo and WarHawk, so my pain is running extra, extra deep right now. Deep. :(
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edit/ LOL -- what the hell? Who would disagree? Do you think I [MADDENS] would make this up? You guys need to grow up.

My friend's sister's social worker knows some guy who's second cousin is a janitor at Sony and he said he overheard someone at sony say that the 40gigs have a 99% failure rate!

My original 60 GIG failed, got it replaced within a week. The new (refurb) one works perfectly now. So what? These things happen. Enjoy your consoles and stop with all this baby crap, it's really getting old.

Edit - Disagrees rock.

Edit - Keep 'em coming boys!

I've had 2 bad 40gig systems, both had DOA Blu-ray and 1 of the failures seems a lot like what many people are describing. Luckily since they were DOA I was able to just swap them out.

Seems like a couple people in the Gamer Zone have had their PS3's die as well.

Now we just need to come up with a catchy name for it. My vote is BROD(Blu-ray of death).

EDIT @ Below: If you want my PSN ID just PM me and then I can tell you to "piss off" on your PS3. I'm sorry that I love my 360 more but that is the truth. The PS3 isn't a bad system but for the amount that the 360 is demonized and the PS3 is praised here it's bullshat. If it's any consolation my 3rd PS3 is working good.

A 60gb (which is actually a 250gb now due to hard drive swap) and a 40gb for when guests come around and stuff like that.

Let me just say the 40gb gets ALOT of use. Especially on the weekends when people come over. I've YET to run into a reliability problem. And we're talking about a machine that gets played for 7 hours straight on occasion.

On a side note, EVERY machine has a few malfunctions here and there. Every electronic piece of hardware has some duds at times. It's natural. But the ps3 isn't ANYWHERE close to having epidemic failures.

Froze last night.. but that's it...

Besides it was orange box *cough* EA *cough*...

Other than that, nah, no problem. :D

"I seriously doubt there's a major problem but Gizmodo reporting this??? "

I dont see how their rumours are any worth . They are the same guys falsely reporting xvid not working on ps3 , when the related divx firmware appeared ...

I also recall them , on a totally unrelated note , being the morons that disrupted some important salon last year , acting like kids with remotes . So maybe i'm not familiar enough with them , but i havent seen anything that separate them from your usual "blog"

Lol. I'm sorry but this article is ridiculous, just like Gizmodo. A friend heard from some random guy just isn't quite a source. No wonder no one takes blogging as serious journalism. Also, to those peope hitting the disagrees in response to people whose consoles broke, why? You are disagreeing with people who are in no way flaming and merely stating what happened to them. No machine is failure proof no matter how hard you believe other wise. The only difference here is that the failure rate with the PS3 is within the reasonable percentage while the RROD wasn't, which was why the RROD got so much flak. Anyway, an article from a site that posted an article about (false) PS3 Divx problems, who didn't even bother to double check, has almost no credibility.

Grow~up!

Just wait until they discover the current blue diodes only last 2 years under normal use.............

dont kno i got a 60 gig, maybe is an xbot makin rumors who knos

More lies about the ps3 because the xbox still breaks every damn day. It shows you xbots are loser why would u send in a console 3 or 4 times and still think its gonna work and still support it dosent make no damn sense stupid xbots.

The more radical it can get is that PS3 uses to be under 1% failure rate, and the between 1-3% (which is normal, more time more failures appear) and now they could be in 5% with 40GB version for some reason (stills normal, since the electronics usually range from 3 to 5% failure rate), that could be "too much" for some employee...

But really? "For some reason, Gizmodo's Brian Lam is spreading the following rumor of PS3 40G failures". It's because they are all fanboys! And that's it! :)

It landed in Texas yesterday morning...not sure when i get it back but if its the 1st week in May i will be one happy gamer...

wouldnt read bluerays but read PS2 games and everything else

161 bucks

I think Microsoft is doing good by making a 30% failure rate on purpose. They probably are trying to get our youth to go outside and play for 2-3 weeks while they don't have a 360. Yeah. That's it.

PS3 failures are so rare that he has to send out request for people to come forward with there problem. Maybe nobody was reporting their failed console out of fear of being alone.

Seriously if it really have a high failure rate, u don't think people in the forum will be talking about this? This is obviously a lie.

mine was a 60GB that i bought Jan-Feb 07

My 60 gig died too I think.. I said it in another post. The last time I was using it, was in Oklahoma, on my bravia. We packed up the truck and drove to California to fly to Japan via LAX. THAT ASIDE I brought my PS3 along to Cali, tried hooking it up after being there for a week... it turns on fine, but no matter what cables I used, I could not get picture or sound. I even went as far as going to a relatives house since he has an HDTV with HDMI cables ( the last time I played the PS3 I was using this setup) but it wouldn't detect!

So all in all.. my PS3 isn't dead but there is definitely something wrong with it... I will not know till I come back from Japan, drive back to Oklahoma, hook it up to my TV and see what happens.
If I see the same s***, I'm gonna have to have a talk with Sony, if they can't do anything for me.. I dunno. I really don't want to buy another 60 gig, but I just might. However, just because it's PS3 does not mean I will buy a 3rd if that were to break as well. (theoretically speaking ofcourse) :B

To be honest, man. I didn't. I'll try it once I get back to the states as I didn't even get fully involved with my problem. I was too busy showing my girl the beach and taking care of alot of pre-travel plans, passports, banking and such.

I appreciate your telling me that, and feel a little embarrassed not knowing that myself.
Bubble up, friend. ;-)

I've just bought 2 PS3 in a row from Walmart. I had one 40gb for a week and it started making this really loud noise. As soon as you put in a standard DVD it will do it and never stop. Same goes for the other PS3. So I said FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU and went back to 360. Atleast I know 360 has a 3 year warranty plus better games. I'd rather suffer with a 360 than a PS3 anyday. I am not a 360 fanboy I promise u that. I've tried all three systems and 360 is the best imo. PSN just feels so basic, dull, and dry. Games so far they are alrite. Dunno about later thought seems to be a good future for it.

My 80 gig failed me after a couple of months of non-stop play, being dropped on the floor, sat on by cats, and licked by my dog.

Even after that, I think I might've been the cause of it short-circuiting for I pulled the plug out one day, while power was still being fed.

Its strange how my PS3 is running fine.. bullshit article

There’s certainly something wrong with the 40g ps3, to be more specific its the blu-ray drive that's crap. I don't know exactly what it is but it just stops working after a certain time. I had this problem and several other belgian and dutch people too. There is a dutch forum were someone started a topic for this specific failure and there has been A LOT of reaction. If you look there you might start to think the 40g ps3 has a failure rate of 50%. But i think this could very well be a regional problem.

So people don't like it when RROD stories are posted but when it's supposed PS3 failure rates its ok.

Hypocrites.

there is no proof of this whatsover. The kid could be lying. Maybe he never even called sony and he's a 360 fan. unless if a professional experiment was done to prove this, and then is article is Bullsh*t.

& they sent me the box and everything needed to ship out my broken console in less than two-weeks. They told me I shuold received it in 15 buisness days.

I will take photos, and ontop of that. I tried to see how good of a service they are. I told them that I opened it up, and voided the warranty.

They said I'll have to pay 150 for the replacement.

That's pretty decent if you ask me.

Yet I dont wanna wait untill june to get a new 80gig model. So i went a purchased a 40gig for the time being.

I haven't had any issues whatsoever. I think the power of the internet blows all hardware related issues out of proportion. There is no way this problem is on par with "other" consoles either. Fortunately, I haven't had any issues with any of my hardware.

i'm sorry but N4G guidelines should be changed. this rumor bullcrap needs to be thrown out. too many times i read a story only to find out it isn't "news" but rather a rumor! think about it, ANYBODY CAN WRITE A RUMOR STORY! and every time there is one of these rumors, within a week it's been debunked. whether it's a 360 or ps3 rumor; doesn't matter. if it isn't real NEWS, then it shouldn't be on "NEWS 4 GAMERS"! am i crazy?

*YAWN*

I SMELL TOTAL AND UTTER BS.

The 360 fanboys don't want the ps3 to do well with gta:)

I stopped reading Gizmodo after the CES disruption. (They were turning off TV's using 'TV-B-Gone' devices. They caused a lot of problems especially during a Motorola presentation.)

The PS3 failure article seems like a load of rubbish. It's basically a 'friend of a friend of a friend' story designed to get hits, and cunningly disguised as a 'we want your opinions' piece.

The fact the author is calling people a-holes in the comments section and banning them just for questioning his sources seems to be pretty pathetic too.

PS3 failure articles are even more lame than the articles approved from random blogs stating 'I got RRoD'. We KNOW the 360 has a massive failure rate - MS have told us that!

The PS3 failure rate appears well with in the industry norm.

That the PS3 has a huge failure rate? Now this is just LOL funny.

"You little fanboy punks act as if what you say is fact. Find us a link where it is stated officially that the failure rate of the 360 is still 30% instead of pulling numbers out of your arses"

That's the stupidest argument I've ever read. FIRST, someone would need to post EVIDENCE that these numbers have changed. That is, that the Microsoft repair centers aren't that busy. Judging from the fact that there have been lots of complaints about Microsoft screwing the consumer recently, such as taking the console for a month or even up to 4 months and calling you a criminal... it seems that there's still a lot of confusion at the repair shops. Which means they are indeed still busy.

People can be free to assume that the highly defective 360 is STILL highly defective. Or do you pretend people to think before they go into best-buy "Oh, there's no proof that the Xbox 360 failure rate is STILL the same"? Wow, my bad. I guess I'd be wrong in thinking "There's no proof that Xbox 360 is a safe product to buy yet, so I'll wait". Or at least that's what you seem to think, don't you, idiot?

"I bought 4 PS2's in the last 7 years. How many of the 100 million+ sold where people buying a second or third one? "

You call everyone a fanboy, and you have the chutzpah to make a ridiculous statement like that. You know, you CAN say that, but that doesn't mean it is true, or that we believe you. Chances are you don't even know how to treat your console. My launch PS2 still works fine after 7.5 years. Last-gen, I knew a lot of people that owned PS2, more than they did Xbox or Gamecube. All of my Xbox friends had to send their Xbox to replace the cable once because Microsoft admitted there was a problem, and even then some of the Xboxes out there burned homes or stopped reading discs overall; which is funny since you Xbots love to complain about PS2 not reading discs, but it's widely known that Xbox had problems with its DVD drives, especially the Thompson ones, among others; you just didn't see it in the news since the first Xbox was a failure, so no one cared and the numbers weren't that big because of install base. The only PS2 I knew to fail was one that was dropped several times off its shelf, i.e. misuse, so no wonder it wouldn't work.

A few things are certain though:

-PS2 failure rate, if it wasn't the consumers fault, was much smaller than Xbox 360's rate.
-Xbox 360's failure rate is not only significantly bigger than PS2's, but than any other consumer electronics apparatus in the market. It is unprecedented.
-Xbox 360's failure rate is independent from whatever happened to PS2. It still exists, and doesn't seem to go away. For that reason, no rational consumer should buy a 360.

The reason PS2 sold so much was because it wasn't as risky as a 360, and it was most of the times the users fault. When anyone bought a PS2, there was really little risk if at all of getting a dead console; at most, reports cited disks not being read, which didn't rendered your whole console dead, only a single part which just needed to be cleaned or at most replaced. But again, most of that happened due to consumer misuse. When your install base is 120 million, even if the failure rate is 1%, there will still be 1.2 million consumers complaining. So naturally it seems like a lot, but it wasn't.

This article is just rubbish

oh thats bull crap, no they DON'T!!!

died in 66 days from purchase. the blu-ray drive died. support was ok, but nothing great. the refurb unit that was returned to me has worked since, but is rather louder then my first unit. i can hear it from my couch. the unit itself and the drive are louder. still not as loud as the 360 however.

A friend went to purolator office during the day there was a line up of people, they all got a Xbox from MS comming back from repair to pick up. They tell my friend he will have to come back later to get his package. At nite he came back and say there was a long line of people, they where picking up the same box as the other's they where all defective xbox comming back from repair. He ask the clerk about it, he said it happen often to see that, the clerck was not surprised at all.

running folding@home since march 21 2007..

On every day 24 hours a day 7 days a week...avg about 8 work units a day or 1000 points a day..

Play games on the weekends...been playing the heck out of Pixel Junk Monsters...

Have not had any problems...I was having some graphic glitch errors...but they were solved by the last firmware....my system is totally solid...I even played PAIN for like 4 hours one day last weekend..unlocked almost everything...

I got the Metal Gear Solid 4 Online beta updated to 1.02....ready to jump in tommorrow when it goes live....waiting for GTA4 to come out next week.

The PS3 is solid...

Will get another PS3 when the new chipset comes out...the one with the dual heatsyncs...and the 65 NM or less RSX...

Any PS3 that is failing is one that was installed in a non ventilated area. You got to have ventilation in your rack! Also you have to use a power cleaning system...maybe even a power cleaner with a UPS...so the PS3 will never get hit by a power surge or outage.

Whatever haven't heard any news or reports about PS3 reliability problems forever and now they start talking about it.
Just another rumor people move on.
70% Failure Rate = Xbox 3 Fix Me

the Ps3 is perfect because it was crafted by the gods themselves who never failed at anything they do and are not like the ms the devil.

Broken disk drive.

The idiot who wrote this trash is just an Xbot trying to make Sony look bad. My friend was told by someone at Sony that the 40GB PS3 is having a lot of problems? Right. I doubt that. If it was true it would be all over the Web. Just more FUD from Microsoft.

I ASKED WHY AN THE PC GUY SED IT WAS CAUSE THEY WAS ALL BORKEN..THE SHELVS HAD ALL 40BG PS3..BUT THE 80GB PS3 SOLD OUT..I EVEN SAW THIS ONE GUY GIVEING BACK THE 40BG AN TAKE UP A 80GB PS3...THIS WAS A DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS ON 12/24/08

*sniff sniff*

......

I smell bullsh*t.

This is absolutely assinine that this attempt at an article got approved in its present form. It is just a rumor and as such should have that in the title... not in the small print. Even if there is a small problem with the 40GB models, which I have never heard of any from any of my friends that have one... I doubt it is anywhere as big as the article tries to imply. Just another attempt by fanboys to try to give the PS3 a problem as massive as the 360 Hardware failure rates. N4g needs to make the contributor rewrite the title to inform it as only a rumor.

Because If it is all those RROD comments are gonna come back & bite yoo guys RIGHT IN THE AZZ! I not trying to missed up or a fanboy or nothing, I just saying what will happen!

Sony consoles have ALWAYS had DRE issues. I went through a total of 4 PS2s for dirty disk errors. Have never had the 1st issue with Xbox or 360.

to put this kinda article up on this site. Even if this is true I don't think any sonyfans are gonna be honest & say they have had problem with the 40GB PS3, they will just lie & say they had no problems.

i have the 60 gb(My Baby) and a 40gb. the 4o just went to to texas for repair because the fans constantly blow at 100%. My 60 just runs smooth and quiet. here is my service status:

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Status: Due to high demand, your unit is currently on backorder. The quoted turn-around-time for product exchange through our PlayStation(R) Exchange Center (PEC) is approximately 7-15 business days from the time we receive your unit, not including shipping and handling time. Due to the current backlog the turn-around-time may exceed the quoted 7-15 business days. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience.

maybe something is true to this story. maybe a wee bit

He is practically begging for people to complain about the PS3... maybe because the failures is not enough to comment on it has to be invented?

4 of my friends recently obtained the 40GB version from Game in the UK. I have the original 60 GB version.

No hardware problems at all between the 5 of us. Good sturdy units IMO.

sh!tbox zealots are adopting foxnews tactics, throwing bullsh!t to confuse the people but the facts remain:

sh!tbox failure rate: ~30%
everything else: ~1%

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOWOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!

I pee&poo on you sh!tbox zealots, you're forever an embarrassment for this industry and gaming in general.

you worship a company whose only originality is their audacity at screwing their customers.

Stuff breaks. Life goes on.

My 40gb is a fine example of what taking a little more time to design and test your final product will get you. The PS3 is a much more refined machine than other platforms and has been exposed to much more rigorous testing conditions than it's white and green opponent. I have no doubt that even come hours of GTAIV play my PS3 will continue to run smoothly and without failure.

It was all lies. Now that rumor is popping out again. I know for one thing that it is not heat because mine only gets hot after 6 straight hours of gaming. If it did have problems they would be mechanical and easily fixable and would not continue to reoccur.

Could be cause those fan tests, frying the consoles CPU/GPU. Not good at all.

N4G usually runs more credible stories than this. This is a "My friend Paulie called Monica and she told him" story. Slow news day?