@bolded- Man I hope not, this is a great game that deserves millions of sales.

Well you don't own a 360 now so stop talking crap.  I do own all three consoles and have only ever had one occasion when Live was down and I wanted to use it.  You're the one posting damage conrol being defensive, this is about the PS3, not the 360 but you had to have a dig because you're a troll.  I'm sorry you cannot appreciate how child like you're acting.

The Slim isn't affected because like the newer fat models, they use the latest board revision.

Seriously though.....there is possibly a BIG problem with developers why is everyone ignoring that? I firmly believe Sony will find a fix for everyone elses PS3 within the next couple days but developers have already stated that there are current games in production for the PS3 right now that will be affected by this. There dev kit systems work totally different that a normal PS3 and there consoles are completly bricked, won't even boot up just a constant looping patter of system errors and reboots....there could have been valuable informaiton destroyed by this.

I dont think it will hurt anything. I am sorry you cant play your PS3 for a day or 2. That is a far cry from your XBOX 360 RROD and waiting the two weeks or longer it takes to get it back from Microsoft. So while people complain about RROD 360 still continues to outsell PS3 in USA.

I just think it's funny that I try to look at the bright side by mentioning that they may go through the coding line by line and people jump all over me.
You don't know either. YLOD could be caused by several processors going idle, leaving one processor to handle everything. You have no idea, yet you are comfortable enough to insult someone else.

Seriously guys, chill out. For all we know, YLOD could be caused by a line of code simply saying "F" and the cell being confused by it. If a simple date problem can cause all this, maybe a programmer typed "teh cell" instead of "the cell" and it makes 'teh cell' go into overdrive lol.

No, I do know what the YLOD is because we fix them all night long at work but I don't see the value in educating someone determind to be ignorant.   I suggest you watch the Watchdog program regarding the PS3, its rather basic in its explanation but will give you some idea of how wrong you are.

Obviously this won't hurt PS3, but Bad Company 2 may see an increase on 360 version and that's all.

I find it hilarious that our "generation" gets so stressed out by things like this. You know what I'm going to stop writing this response, turn off my computer and read a book...

Maybe... When something serious happens to hardware and multiple people are effected at once, on the same day no less there is every likelihood this will have some effect on their hardware sales and perhaps their software sales in the short term if people are unable to use their PS3s properly.

The longer this goes on the worse it is for them because more systems will be effected. Its quite likely the retail sales people being enthusiasts would have suffered from this error as they'd probably have older systems. If multiple people in the same store experience a fault on the same day you can bet people who are in store to buy one will hear about it. Noone except people following this directly will know that its just the phat units being effected.

No offense but that whole episode was full of biase crap

anwyho I agree that everyone take a chill pill....bugs come they go....I just hope they will be able to work around the developer issues as well asap