| toMsons7551 said: Perhaps it's time to not buy the 360 anymore, all they do is break down anyways. Plus they lose all their good exclusive games, to where it only has 3-5 good franchises anymore. I don't like Mass Effect 2 all that much, but it was a nail to the coffin for 360 fans because they used that as a, nullifier to Uncharted. Just saying, don't keep wasting money. You should only have to buy one system from a single company, anymore than that in which you "have to", and you know it's not worth it. My 360 and 2 PS3's still work, but my 360 gets hardly any playtime so it doesn't get much chance to die. My Slim and fatty fun 24/7 sometimes for a week or two, and run like dreams. I wouldn't dare do that to my 360, plus 360 only has exclusives that are "good" that are FPS games, and I hate those more than anything. Games like Gears, and Halo I find disguisting. But if you have to have a new one, than I feel sorry for you. MS doesn't deserve people buying their 3rd, and 4th systems, which I know a lot of people who've had too. I just am shocked tons of people support their bad quality. I am a computer guy, and I don't tolerate it. If my expensive ass PC went to shit, or my PS3, I'd be royaly pissed off, and I have no company loyalty to any companies, but just to myself. But for you, I hope it somehow works, people shouldn't really have to waste money like this. |
PS3s are pretty far from immune to burning out.
I was willing to write off my original 60GB model as dying from "normal use" if such a thing were possible under two years, but not entirely unreasonable considering it was Folding for an unbroken stretch of about 6 months, 24/7, when not being used for games or movies. Less than 10,000 hrs of total runtime most likely.
But, my brother's 40GB SKU died just under the 2 year mark as well (same exact YLoD), which I could write off due to being one of the initial production run models of the scaled down, cheaper to manufacture (read: made cheaper) revised hardware, but... I really don't need to make excuses for SCE.
That's two PS3s I've eventually sent in for a $170 repair. One which cost $600, and the other which was $400. Neither of which lived to reach 2 years.
Ironically, my early production (mid 2007 Zephyr model) 360 has run without any hardware problems since I bought it back in the summer of 2007. Of course, it goes for weeks (over a month) without being turned on, so it's not a valid comparison by any means.
