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just saw this article, looks like the ps3 is suffering similar solder joint problems that 360's have. but not too many yet...
Long-running BBC consumer affairs show Watchdog took Sony to task over the reliability of its Playstation 3 console this week, claiming that more than 150 of its viewers have experienced a "yellow light of death" fault which renders their console inoperable -- and that Sony won't pay to fix the affected machines.
"More than 150 Watchdog viewers have contacted us to say they've experienced [the yellow light of death] and by Sony's own admission, around 12,500 of the 2.5 million PlayStations sold in the UK have shut down in this way since March 2007," the Watchdog blog says. The problem predominately affects launch-model PS3s, which are outside Sony's 12-month warranty period.
Beware the yellow glow
Watchdog attributed the PS3's issues to gas bubbles in its solder joints, an allegation which Sony denies. Watchdog was able to repair 16 broken consoles using a process called "solder reflow," which involves heating the console in a specialized oven to melt and re-set its solder joints. Unfortunately for Watchdog (and the owners of the machines in question), five of the 16 failed again shortly after completing the procedure.
But even before the show aired on Thursday, Sony was running damage control, claiming in a letter that the show's methods were faulty and its conclusions inaccurate.
"I have serious concerns as to the accuracy of these allegations and the likely tone of the Watchdog report," said Sony UK's managing director Ray Maguire. "The information that you have provided suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of the technical issues and a mis-characterisation of SCEUK’s Out of Warranty repairs policy."
As is usually the case with console hardware issues, Sony won't cough up the overall failure rate of the machine, but did say that fewer than one half of one percent of PS3 owners had experienced the "yellow light" failure. We'd be tempted to compare that with a certain other console that's thought to have a failure rate somewhere over 50%, but that would be petty, so we won't.
Have you ever encountered the "yellow light of death"? Let us know your experiences in the comments.
SOURCE: http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/...fers-quot-yellow-light-of-death-quot-/1355611
Long-running BBC consumer affairs show Watchdog took Sony to task over the reliability of its Playstation 3 console this week, claiming that more than 150 of its viewers have experienced a "yellow light of death" fault which renders their console inoperable -- and that Sony won't pay to fix the affected machines.
"More than 150 Watchdog viewers have contacted us to say they've experienced [the yellow light of death] and by Sony's own admission, around 12,500 of the 2.5 million PlayStations sold in the UK have shut down in this way since March 2007," the Watchdog blog says. The problem predominately affects launch-model PS3s, which are outside Sony's 12-month warranty period.
Watchdog attributed the PS3's issues to gas bubbles in its solder joints, an allegation which Sony denies. Watchdog was able to repair 16 broken consoles using a process called "solder reflow," which involves heating the console in a specialized oven to melt and re-set its solder joints. Unfortunately for Watchdog (and the owners of the machines in question), five of the 16 failed again shortly after completing the procedure.
But even before the show aired on Thursday, Sony was running damage control, claiming in a letter that the show's methods were faulty and its conclusions inaccurate.
"I have serious concerns as to the accuracy of these allegations and the likely tone of the Watchdog report," said Sony UK's managing director Ray Maguire. "The information that you have provided suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of the technical issues and a mis-characterisation of SCEUK’s Out of Warranty repairs policy."
As is usually the case with console hardware issues, Sony won't cough up the overall failure rate of the machine, but did say that fewer than one half of one percent of PS3 owners had experienced the "yellow light" failure. We'd be tempted to compare that with a certain other console that's thought to have a failure rate somewhere over 50%, but that would be petty, so we won't.
Have you ever encountered the "yellow light of death"? Let us know your experiences in the comments.
SOURCE: http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/...fers-quot-yellow-light-of-death-quot-/1355611
