Sony not honoring extended warranties for PS3 playstation 3

Posted by FoDaddy19 on 2012-10-21:

Allow me to educate you a bit on the subject; The changes made to the PS3 over the years wasn't due to any inherent defects, they were made because the parts got cheaper to produce as time went on, the parts also got smaller (the CPU/GPUs went from a 90nm process to a 65nm process, and now, to a 40/45nm process), in layman's terms this means that the consoles run cooler and require less power to deliver the same amount of performance, this means that they can use smaller, less powerful PSU's (among other components) and make the casings smaller as well, all while reducing price to the consumer. That's not to say that the PS3 is 100% bulletproof, it's not, but compared to it's primary completion,it's hardware is much more reliable overall.

Anyway, about the warranty, Your warranty was through Best Buy apparently, and that's who you should've gone with from the get go. Let BBY and Sony deal with each other. But I defintely think that if you had a warranty, they should've replaced the PS3 with another one.

"At the end of all this Best Buy accepted my return for an exchange on a
Microsoft Xbox 360 and I can say I am pleased with the result. "

Ummmm, Red ring of Death ring a bell?

For what it's worth, my PS3 has performed admirably for years (250 GB Slim), IMHO it's far superior the 360 for my needs, It plays blu-rays, it's ridiculously easy to use media server, it's much, much easier to upgrade the HDD than the 360, and it plays games. Though to be honest, I don't use it for games very often, as, being a "real" gamer, I game on the vastly superior PC platform. Sorry, but playing BF3 at slide-show like 30 FPS, with 8 year old DX9-level graphics, doesn't impress me. #PCElitist

Posted by shadygaby21 on 2012-10-22:

This was written solely for anyone having issues with sony about the warranty on ps3 consoles.
Not about the costs of producing the machine or
having best buy take me up on warranties over sony
as it is sony's product and they are suppose to
honor the quality of each product they release unless the machine itself has been tampered with
and so forth.
As for your last comment if you want quality
and performance build yourself a PC gaming rig.

Posted by FoDaddy19 on 2012-10-22:

I was merely addressing the

"That being said I didn't have any knowledge on PS3 and the evolution it has gone through due to FAILURE and being DEFECTIVE for the reasons the company made so many versions of this gaming machine."

Comment you made. Obviously, if you felt it necessary to bring that up, then your review was not just solely for anyone having issues with their PS3 consoles. I was simply explaining why your accusations were not correct.

Posted by shadygaby21 on 2012-10-23:

It was brought up to add to the many who made complaints as you can google search yourself on the so called accusations.followed up by doing youtube searches on the many issues and problems if your really looking to defend sony in a imaginary court.

Posted by FoDaddy19 on 2012-10-24:

The failure rate for PS3's is actually lower than most other similar electronic devices (TV,Blu-Ray player, etc). For the PS3, the failure rate within the first two years is about 0.5%. The industry average is 2%-3%. Just because you can find a couple dozen people complaining online, it doesn't mean that there's a widespread problem, you're only dealing with couple dozen people vs. the millions of units sold. You would need much greater sampling numbers to have better idea of what's really going on.

Fun fact: The Xbox 360 had a failure rate of about 16.4% as documented here
http://squaretradebuyerblog.typepad.com/squaretrade/2008/02/xbox-fail-rates.html

I'm not looking to defend Sony, I'm not actually a huge fan. I'm just attempting to clarify you erroneous statements about the product.