Have these kinds of issues cropped up with the PS4 or Xbone yet?
The PS4 had a specific batch with a "blue light of death", not all PS4's had the problem. It wasn't much of a problem beyond the few couple of months.
The White PS4 that came out this year has hardware revisions and is less likely to fail than the originals.
But come on, $400 is £260 and you complain you *only* got 6 full years heavy use out of it? 6 entire years is pretty damn good for that.
The only things I've ever owned that made it that length of time are my original DS this year, and it's just about surviving, and my original laptop, which was falling to pieces. This was is too at the 5.5 year mark.
6 years is the benchmark I use to replace anything that I intend to use for a 'long time'.
Sorry, I think 6 years is a pretty short length of time for any piece of hardware that costs a good chunk of money. $400 is over half a week's pay for me (after taxes) so, yeah, not a great chunk of money to just drop without second-thinking it.
And I'd expect any piece of machinery you pay a good sum of money for to last a very long time, especially since the PS3's lifecycle is still technically going on in spite of PS4.
That people think 6-years is long enough for a piece of electronics that cost so much money is baffling to me. So, what, assuming there wasn't an easy solution I was supposed to just go out ans spend almost $300 on a refurbished machine that's now pretty much out of date due to the release of the PS4? Or spend $400-$500 on a PS4 and lose everything I've on the PS3, to say nothing of the games for it (unless the launch PS4s are backwards-compatible.)
Sorry, unacceptable especially since this isn't a failure due to "age" in terms of something mechanical and, yeah, stuff goes wrong. Like with a car, after a certain age and mileage you expect and know things to go wrong on your car, you're dealing with a lot of moving parts, parts that move 1000s of times a second and deal with very, very high heat stresses, controlled explosions, pressures, etc.
So, this week (when taking the PS3 to the shop, infact) it's annoying but it's part of car ownership when my car said it was over-heating and I had to take it in to get it checked out. (No big issue, new coolant, sticky beginning to fail T-Stat) I expect that. That thermostat is 14-years old and has seen almost 150,000 miles. It deals with very high heats in a high pressure situation. Shit fails.
But an electronic device dealing with heat as hot as an oven on the lower settings before being set to "warm" and shitty test-solder on it fails causing the device to turn into a brick? Unacceptable.
Sony should have tested this solder's heat-stress tolerances better. Simple as that. This isn't a failure due to a maintenance issue or something that's expected to happen to an electronic device meaning it needs to be repaired (which Sony will gladly do for you for $150, plus shipping, and doing it over the course of a few weeks and you'll lose your HDD data) or replaced ($300-$400, cha-CHING!)
Not acceptable. If this repair doesn't work, I'm selling my games, buying a BD player and that's it. I'm out when it comes to gaming unless something *really* impressive comes buy then I'll probably more consider an X-Box or see if it comes to PC.
), so when I buy an expensive piece of hardware, I expect it to last a very long time. Our family has always been in the lower income brackets, so money was always tight, and that Christmas game system, or that 19" TV had to last for many years because replacing it or even repairing it wasn't much of an option. That stays with me, which is why I see things as wasteful and poorly made, because they usually are.
