BBC pushes YLOD PS3 failure issue beyond Watchdog special

Interesting article about failure rates in general:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-system-failure-article

Watchdog might have made a mess of things, but Sony might actually not be telling the whole truth either.

The writeup on BBC site seems to be a fair bit better than the show was last night.

To say the least.

The only thing missing from the Watchdog page is the cause of YLOD/RROD – extreme heat build-up/cooling down, causing solder joints to break and motherboards to bend.

It won’t happen overnight. It might not happen at all. But if it is going to happen, it’ll probably happen after Sony’s warranty has expired.

This is what is inherently wrong with Sony’s position here – the consumer is not at fault, it happens through the process of playing games which is what the machine was designed for, after all.

“Thanks, rrod360lol.”

Gotta love that in the PS3 article about YLOD.

OMG, the PS3 really is shit, isn’t it?

LOL, the mods on that page are busy I see .

Bloody hell. Half the comments have been deleted.

The SDF has mobilised!

[MrBurns]Smithers, release the hounds…[/MrBurns]

“So if there isn’t one single thing that’s causing thousands of machines to stop working, why does it appear that one single repair appears to get them working again?”

Didn’t they see Watchdog last night? The single repair only fixed 7 out of 11 consoles.

Over at the page linked in this article they said that it got all 16 of the machines they repaired working again… albeit temporarily in some cases.

Talking of which…

“I was very dissapointed in watchdog (BBC) when i watched this. Ive been a gamer for years now and know my facts and information. And Sony playstation as a very high reputation for building quality products.”

Quality… yes. Reliable… no.

Yes, ok.
But the truth is that the failure rate is a much more big and real issue!
Again, look at this:

http://videogame-market.blogspot.com/2008/04/truth-behind-ps3-failure-rate-plague.html

Maybe we should thanks also BBC if Sony will decide to extend the warranty period!!!

Oh for godsake, think of it this way…

How many bits of tech kit can you buy today that have as (comparitively) high chance of failure as a 360 or a PS3? They are both clearly inherently dodgey bits of kit.

Buy a digital camera for £200 that dies in a year? you should be mortified. The same for a TV, Stereo, an MP3 player.

Why so different for this gen of consoles?

edit:added a comma

bbuuurrrrrrrrr!

Who wants to bet that half of those deleted comments are either from the SDF or gamers who though the BBC’s piece was shit?

The x-sucks 3-shitty and the Pissy 3. Woot!

This generation has had a terrible rep for hardware failure though.

@Freek

Digital Foundry are about as reliable as Watchdog.

Digital Foundry claim that YLoDs happen as often as RRoDs. Tells you everything you need to know about Digital Foundry.

@ cort and filo
So Digital Foundry say something bad about the cell and that makes them unreliable?

The guy seemed to be just telling it as it was from his experience.
I mean I am not trying to come down on Sony here but truth be told I would find them to be no better or worse than MS for spin.
That is what companies do all the time.
Deny and deny until there brought screaming and kicking to the truth.
Which is what happened to MS.

I mean maybe Sony are correct and this thing is been overblown but essentially this guy is saying they both suffer from the same type of problem.

Didn’t the RROD take a long time to eventually come out in to the open?

^ No, they come up with a bullshit claim about the PS3 (that YLoDs are as prevalent as RRoDs) that not even MS would make and fail to support it with any useful evidence or facts. That’s why I regard them as unreliable.

And a less than 0.5% failure rate is a non-story.

Buy a digital camera for £200 that dies in a year? you should be mortified. The same for a TV, Stereo, an MP3 player.

Why so different for this gen of consoles?

It isn’t different – for Sony and Nintendo products at least. You talk as if PS3s are failing everywhere and failures in cameras, mp3 players etc are unheard of.

The issue in Australia at least seems to be the lack of ability in SONY’s service centre to repair the failed PS3s. I have had 3 failures in 2 months, others are on their 6th.

EG – I am the OP here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1315895#r1