| Gotcha said: PS3 is having problems with the blu ray drive, but it isn't as widespread as RROD. Anyway, cases of PS3 that stopped reading blu ray discs increase everyday. In Europe the problem is getting worst and technical services have even collapsed. Here in Spain, lots of people are reporting that problem, some newspapers talked about it because people had to wait 3 months to get their console back and Sony considers the warranty is only 1 year, when in Europe, 2 years warranty is mandatory for electronic products. I'll provide a link of a national newspaper talking about the issue, it even says that Sony only gives one year warranty (as I said that's no legal), but it's extending it because there are lots of people complaining. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet/fallo/lector/Blu-ray/dispara/reparaciones/PS3/Gb/elpeputec/20080805elpepunet_8/Tes Some people are stating that all blu ray drives which discs don't insert spinning are doomed, this seems far from true, but the problem keeps spreading as PS3 catalogue is improving and people start to give full use to their console. I talked about that because people think PS3 doesn't fail at all, and it's only the 360, but it looks like the 2 HD consoles are having their issues, 360 worse as we have seen, but we don't know where the blu ray drive problem will end. |
Kinda throws a spanner in the works of those 0.2-1% claims many people have been bandying about.
*Poke* *Poke* *Nudge* *Nudge*
Seriously a PS3 uses components that are packed in similar to a laptop with far more heat produced.
It uses 1st/2nd generation blu ray technology in its drives which means that the expected failure rate for said drives is gonna be higher than a normal DVD drive.
Yet people think its got a lower failure rate than a toaster or an electric jug?!
5% is the bare minimum I would accept as reasonable estimate.
Tease.
