PS3 Today is the day that marks the 5th PS3 that died in my hands (rant)

[Gabriel2Silva]

I came to the conclusion that the PS3 is the most unreliable piece of videogame hardware ever developed.

I had FIVE PS3s:
CECHE phat: NEC TOKIN symptoms (crashing on heavy games with 3 beeps), then YLOD on startup forever.
2K slim: GLOD, stuck on green LED, probably RSX
Super Slim: dead HDMI, then a month later it blacked out during a movie with a LOUD grinding noise, had to remove the power cable, blackout afterwards (green light for a brief second, then total shutdown)
2.5k slim: faulty Ethernet IC, can't connect wired on initial setup after formatting, BSOD on startup, unusable
And now the last one, another 2k slim, 1 year without using it, just plugged it in, went from normal boot with black screen to BLACKOUT after a power cycle. Green LED to nothing after 5~6 secs.

Every single console on this list had good thermal paste, temps below 60C at all times (webman-MOD), clean internals and all that. Still, they all died.
Even the DualShock 3 and its dumb pressure connector for the buttons membrane looks like it is made to stop working. EVERY DualShock 3 I stumbled upon had the same "random button presses after pressing the analog sticks" problem due to this stupid membrane introduced in the V3.5X board. Easy fix, sure, but still a problem.

Honestly I just give up on this console. This is just a rant, I love this console so much but I always had and still have trash luck with it. It's insane.

Sorry but I needed to rant about it somewhere.

 

[Berion]

Oh man, that's sad to hear. I know how this feels as my PS4 got ODD fuse blow turning it into console which cannot run disc games (almost all in my collection...) and which cannot connect to PlayStation Store (because needs newer fw and which cannot be installed because of fuses...).

Both of my PS3s still fully works. CECHL04 works by ~11000h (!), never cleaned or opened and now I borrow it to brother. CECH-2504 I keeps unused and packed into box. But all DualShocks suffer from unfixable drifting.

 

[senturkeray9]

The Adventure Begins!

 

[Checkity_CheckYoSelf]

I'm sure a few of those are fairly repairable. Best time to learn repair is when you have broken devices lol. That's what got me into it.

 

[snkplkn]

Guys, why do you expect 5-10-15 years old electronics to work forever? The consoles are manufactured as planned obsolescence, usually made to last only until next generation, or even to the next hardware revision (fats, slim, super slim).

Let me tell you the future of PS3. Most PS3s will die within this decade. PS3 will become vintage and only few collectors will have it at the end of the decade.

The future of PS3 gaming will be in emulation and projects like RPCS3 just like we have various emulators for other retro consoles. Don't get too hang up on consoles.

 

[bigbossu]

I'm sorry to hear that but, wow that's kinda amazing; mine is kicking since 2011, never changed thermal paste or cleaned the internals

 

[Berion]

Guys, why do you expect 5-10-15 years old electronics to work forever?

Good to know that I shouldn't expect from my Commodore 64 been working. :P

Nothing works forever but there are no reasons why consoles shouldn't works few decades and been easy repairable. Other reasons but time bombs, forcing users to buying newer models and nextgens.

My last MS console was Xbox and last Nintendo was GC, so I don't know how crappy are their newer babies, but I'm with Sony consoles since the beginning, and since PS3, they dramatically lower quality in every aspect of theirs consoles and services (especially repair service is completely disaster).

 

[Checkity_CheckYoSelf]

I've actually been fairly lucky over many years of holding onto several different consoles. I only have had one die on me technically (without my own hand), that was due to a power surge that traveled thru an ethernet cord back in the day. Unfortunately didn't have my router plugged into the surge protector, and I think that's what did it. Any other ps3 deaths i've had were from me learning proper de-lidding of IHS's. I think i'm over the hump with that as of now though. I'm currently holding onto 2 fully self de-lidded fatty's (K and an L model), and one de-lidded cpu BC 60 gb console that i'm gonna try to keep around for a while with proper maintence. Then I got a couple of 2501a slim models that have yet to be de-lidded but one of them i've done a fan mod on which helped a lot. My cousin was working for a recycling center for about a year so I was fortunate enough to come up on some extras. That and I was buying bundles of broken consoles for a while and fixing them. I hold onto the one's I feel like are in the best condition. I think I should be good for a while with my current hoarding stash. If anyone wants to really be sure they'll be gaming on these into the future, now is the time to buy them cheap. I've bought several over the past year for 25 or less a pop (in working condition). I suggest to buy your backups now, before it becomes a collectible item and prices go up... And learn how to do your own maintenance.