RIP PS3, I hardly knew thee

CliffyBiro · 19 Sep 2010 at 13:08

K1LLSW1TCH said:
So I guess that only leaves you with the option of getting it repaired or buying a refurbished model from Sony?

Oui.

Or.... selling it as repair/spares and getting a cheap one from the MM.

Annoyed that I've lost my game saves.

^TANK^ · 19 Sep 2010 at 13:12

My ps3 dies and everyone rips the **** out of me, am I not loved on this side of the forum :mad:

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K1LLSW1TCH · 19 Sep 2010 at 13:12

Yes, I suppose you could fetch maybe £50 - £60 for spares and repairs. Aren't the game saves kept on the hard drive?

^TANK^ said:
My ps3 dies and everyone rips the **** out of me, am I not loved on this side of the forum .

I love you! But only because you're much bigger than me, don't snap me like a twig.

ic1male · 19 Sep 2010 at 13:13

K1LLSW1TCH said:
Yes, I suppose you could fetch maybe £50 - £60 for spares and repairs. Aren't the game saves kept on the hard drive?

Yeah but that will be formatted when inserted into a different PS3.

K1LLSW1TCH · 19 Sep 2010 at 13:15

ic1male said:
Yeah but that will be formatted when inserted into a different PS3.

Can't you put it in a caddy and transfer the data to a PC? There should be some way of getting the data off it, or is it impossible?

rp2000 · 19 Sep 2010 at 13:17

skippi90 said:
Annoyed that I've lost my game saves.

Same happened to me last month. PS3 died, got replaced by retailer, but lost every single game save. Ended up selling most of my games as I was not keen on replaying them all from scratch.

K1LLSW1TCH said:
Can't you put it in a caddy and transfer the data to a PC? There should be some way of getting the data off it, or is it impossible?

All encrypted and locked to a unique ID that each PS3 unit has. If the ID placed on the disk does not match the hardware, it formats the disk. Only thing you can do is make regular backups to a USB drive, manually.

rp2000

K1LLSW1TCH · 19 Sep 2010 at 13:19

rp2000 said:
All encrypted and locked to a unique ID that each PS3 unit has. If the ID placed on the disk does not match the hardware, it formats the disk. Only thing you can do is make regular backups to a USB drive, manually.

rp2000

I see, probably a measure taken to protect against piracy?

ic1male · 19 Sep 2010 at 13:19

rp2000 said:
Same happened to me last month. PS3 died, got replaced by retailer

I wondered where you'd been. Seems odd that all these PS3 Slims are going t!ts up after less than a year.

rp2000 · 19 Sep 2010 at 13:21

ic1male said:
I wondered where you'd been. Seems odd that all these PS3 Slims are going t!ts up after less than a year.

Yep, mine died about 1 week before the warranty expired!!! Tragically I swapped good games I did not want to play again for Mafia 2!!! Bad move.

Thankfully the place I bought it from gave a swap for a new boxed unit, but now I have very few games to play

K1LLSW1TCH said:
I see, probably a measure taken to protect against piracy?

Maybe, I suspect they did not think it through more than anything. Locking game saves to Player IDs should stop cheating and piracy. 360 lets you swap HDDs so I don't know why PS3 doesn't.

rp2000

CliffyBiro · 19 Sep 2010 at 13:21

Looking on the 'bay and the cheapest are around the £130 mark anyway, and they are probably consoles that are on their last legs.

Might be better off just trying to get Sony down to under £100.

Naan_H · 19 Sep 2010 at 15:59

That's a shame - you could always try doing it yourself - if you have ever put a pc together it's more or less the same - there are great videos on YouTube that show you how to do it. All you need is time and patience - but it's not for everyone I guess

Talbs13 · 19 Sep 2010 at 16:27

You can buy mine for £100.