Reasonable said:
I hate that too - but to be fair the PS3 remains unhacked and I suspect this is just one of a number of tighter elements on the PS3 that has prevented that. OP - Having had a few PS3's fail (I think I know why now) I've taken to a Sunday night backup of save games, etc. that way at worst I lose a week of play. So far as I can see Trophy info is fine so long as you're syncing - it's just your local saves and data you need to backup. One other annoyance (but again I'm guessing its anti-piracy) is that while the full backup saves your PSN titles, if you get a replacement PS3 it will refuse to restore them as the ID is different (it will restore saves, etc. and everything else). So once you're up and running again expect to fire of a bunch of PSN downloads for those titles (assuming you have PSN titles). All in all the Trophy sync and backup utility does protect most of the data you really care about - but at the same time the PS3 is a bit of a pain when it dies and get's replaced, mainly down to barriers that I suspect are to prevent piracy or similar activity. Personally I think Sony should look at Steam, relax little and put more focus in tieing content to a PSN ID (perhaps making a PSN ID mandatory) and not tieing it to the individual PS3 so much. For those curious about the mystery of how I managed to burn out 3 PS3s, I've finally pinpointed that while I was travelling for business, our house suffered the fuse box blowing, which my wife always replaced in my absence, and in each case the PS3 was active with my kids playing it. After the power was restored the PS3 was loud then failed the next day. I can only conclude that PS3's do not like abrupt power interuptions like that in the middle of extended playing sessions.
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3 failed ps3s? damn man...I thought I was unique. In my case though, I have no explanation...the thing just quit
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