How to piss off a hardcore gamer 101

DESTROY ONE OF HIS CONSOLES! (simple as that)

Yeah, you guessed it.  One of my consoles is sick, particularly the Sony PlayStation 3.  But it wasn’t due to mishandling, old age, inhumane hours of use or even the sun’s ultra violet rays.  But its from the seemingly cool, new trend of how electronic companies stand their ground from the economic crisis we’re facing: DESTROY PEOPLE’S CONSOLES AFTER A SYSTEM UPDATE SO THEY’LL HAVE IT REPAIRED BY US. BWAHAHAHAHA!

Last time I used my PS3 was 5 months ago.  It was working fine and it worked how a souped-up console should work. That is until today, when I decided to play a new game I purchased and had to update its firmware.  After it finished updating, the console displayed a “disc read error” message.  I restarted the console but it won’t read discs anymore.  I tried doing every single suggestion I read in forums (yeah, im not the only one who had this problem.  There were tons of us) but it just won’t fix my problem.  Later on when I tried to sum up all the stuff I read so far, I finally came to a conclusion: The system update’s code will actually cause the PS3’s laser lens to intensify, causing the game to run smoothly for a short period of time, then frying it because of the lens “overclocking.”

People who’re still under warranty had their consoles replaced. But for the unlucky ones (like me), we have to had its lens replaced.  My ps3 is still under warranty, but I bought this in Hong Kong so its pretty much useless since it’ll be more expensive to have it repaired there.  

 Parting words: If Sony is reading this, for the sake being fair, I give you 8 thumbs of for the quality you’ve provided for your customers since you started in the electronic industry.  But because of this major stupidity of yours, making ps3 owners trust your “official” software 2.41 firmware update, you destroyed not only our expensive rigs but our quality gaming time we reward ourselves after a hard day’s work as well.  So yeah, Sony? SCREW YOU and your new brainless engineers for not testing a firmware update after releasing it globally.  Happy Holidays!

Nintendo > Sony