Last week while I was online playing the esteemed Call of Duty 4 with a friend of mine, something horrible happened: My PS3 died. It did not go gently into that good night, but go it did. And I was sad.
It started as a match had begun when my PS3 froze. I then go to shut down and restart it when even the power button in front didn't work. Surprised, I shut down the PS3 via the power switch in back and then tried to restart it. It froze again, repeat steps 1 and 2. I then get a screen that it will be attempting to rebuild my database. I think to myself, "Okay. No big deal. I'll be back online and fragging dumbasses in no time."
Then the rebuild failed. I was becoming more alarmed but no overly so. i mean, this is a PS3 after all, not a 360, I should be good to go. My PS3 recommends to format the hard drive so I do and then: Nothing. Upon start up it says Sony Computer Entertainment and then I get to stare at the wave. That's it.
Now I get depressed, but I figure it's just something with the hard drive so I open her up and find the fucking Spanish armada of dust in the HDD bay. I exaggerate, but there was a surprising amount of dust in the bay. I'm not a neat freak about my PS3, I'l wipe it down every couple of weeks. My point is while I'm not attacking my PS3 with compressed air every day, neither am I like that tool last year who had a dust factory in his PS3 and through it in the dirt when it seemed too clean.
So, back to my tragic tale, I call Sony the next day hoping that maybe a simple hard drive swap and downloading the software will make it all good. The answer: no. The guy told me that formatting the hard drive would not erase the XMB and since my PS3 is over a year old it is out of warranty. But for the low, low price of $149.99 (plus tax) I can exchange my dead PS3 for a new one.
I joke about the price to replace it because it's kind of bullshit, but at the same time it's nice not to not have to pay another $400-$500 again to get another PS3.
Anyway, I just need to find my Bestbuy receipt to get a brand new one for Free.99, my favorite price. Any thoughts? Only serious ones please; there is no need to make a flame war out of this.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Damn, that's messed up. I don't know what to tell you . . . my receipt for my PS3 is in the same place as it's been since I took the PS3 out of the box . . . namely, in the PS3 box in my closet.
oh, nice. You are getting a new one not a refurbished unit?
OMG YOU NOOB! PS3'S DONT DIE LOLZ WHO DO YOU THINK YOUR TRYING TO TRICK? BILL GATES? lOLZ EVEN HE DOENT KNOW ABOUT HOW THE PS3 IS INVINCIBLE.
hAIL PS3!