Iv'e brought both of my PS3s back to life with the solder reflow trick. I would recommend using a heat gun to terget the gpu/cpu over using an oven, but both ways are temporary. Sadly the poor design of certain runs of certain models(ie: very few) cause the machine to heat up so much that the solder on the gpu or cpu disconnect from their socket connection to the motherboard. If this does happen to any vgcharter and you do the fix it is best to buy an independently powered ac adapter intercooler(one that has its own power supply, not one that pulls from the usb ports).
This trick also works on RROD xboxes, which is what the towel trick does......also the update most likely has nothing to do with the ylod, just bad luck for some PS3 owners.
Getting an XBOX One for me is like being in a bad relationship but staying together because we have kids. XBone we have 20000+ achievement points, 2+ years of XBL Gold and 20000+ MS points. I think its best we stay together if only for the MS points.
Nintendo Treehouse is what happens when a publisher is confident and proud of its games and doesn't need to show CGI lies for five minutes.
-Jim Sterling
