PS3 Freezing

[HTMLHugo]

how can the console freezing be no reflection on the build quality ?

consoles shouldnt generally freeze, my snes didnt , my md didnt, dont remember my master system, DS, Gameboy or any other console i cant think of right now freezing up on a regular basis, now they had build quality thats why theres so many of them still knocking around after 10-20 years.

cant see ps3s's or xboxs being around anywhere near that time.


time will tell how reliable the ps3 is.

The xbox was completely flawed before its stated and is im sure the ps3 is not as knackered as that but that fact is hardly an excellent selling point tbh.

as far as i remember sonys customer service has always been excellent.

 

[Needles]

lol at Needles little dig at MS, yet 1st to moan if anyone says anything bad about the PS3, lmao

Sorry lad, but having dealt with both customer services from my personal experience I can honestly say that sony offered better customer service, no having to ship it back to them, courier who delivered my new machine took away my old one. MS send you a box or labels and quote a 15 day period for your machine.

McManic that speaks for itself, no need for me to take a dig - would just like for MS to facilitate a similar policy.

So whats to laugh at, did I offend your feelings.

 

[McManicMan]

lol not at all Needles, but in the end both companys will fix your console, i just find it ironic that you take the first opportunity you get to post some negative comment about another console on a PS3 thread thats all.

 

[Inoshishi]

how can the console freezing be no reflection on the build quality ?

If you read through the posts you will see a common trend of it being the same demo (PES2008) that is causing the unit to freeze, so that would suggest it's the game rather than the hardware causing the problem.

The other lock ups could be put down to anything from dirty\scratched media or network timeouts when playing online. I really don't believe its the hardware thats at fault here.

 

[Needles]

lol not at all Needles, but in the end both companys will fix your console, i just find it ironic that you take the first opportunity you get to post some negative comment about another console on a PS3 thread thats all.

Well the same as it is just stating the obvious that 360 has a superior games library in a ps3 thread and it is not considered trolling to do so, is it not the same to state the obvious that sony have a superior returns and repair facility than Microsoft and for that not to be considered trolling ( which you are implying in relation to my post ).

Rules for one and rules for the other,

P.S. I am not stating a negative about the 360, just a positive about a rival manufacturers return / repair policy and how the other platform holder would benefit from following the same model.

 

[HTMLHugo]

i read through the thread and saw at least 3 different games listed which would suggest this might not just the be the one game.

so........

ill let you guys worry about its freezing issues just wanted to comment that maybe its reliability isnt as great as you think it is. its sold x amount of units less then xbox at the moment (which as previously said was badly flawed) and has been about for what 3 months or so (and unused by a lot of people) if you think its reliable thats great. but time really will tell.

 

[Inoshishi]

ill let you guys worry about its freezing issues just wanted to comment that maybe its reliability isnt as great as you think it is. its sold x amount of units less then xbox at the moment (which as previously said was badly flawed) and has been about for what 3 months or so (and unused by a lot of people) if you think its reliable thats great. but time really will tell.

Well its sold worldwide roughly half of what the 360 has sold (PS3 - 5.45M & 360 12.79M), and has been out for 12 months now. So its pretty safe to say its a reasonably reliable bit of kit. If it wasn't we would have heard a lot more about it by now.

 

[Shure]

Well I have to say after reading the post V1N I stopped any downloading during PES and I could not replicate the freeze issue I was having so I am happy to say I believe it was a bug in the software.
As for my previous experiences I have had it freeze twice if I remember rightly in RFOM and several times on NBA 2K7 during online play.
I have also had it freeze several times on the TW 08 demo when loading the game.

After all this though I am still not 100% convinced this is a hardware issue.