According to Eurogamer, Sony has denied knowing anything about the now mysterious error code that some PS3 owners have reported seeing, following the failure of their Blu-ray drives. Not to be confused with that other set of fictional unlucky numbers, this one is purported to have real life consequences.
However, if Gamerevolver is to be believed, the error and the drive failure are somehow coincidental in nature, and not related:
"Since this error occurred, we obviously contacted Sony Support. We were informed that the code is not common, and a simple reset of the system, and restoral of factory settings should do the trick. Unfortunately, after the restoral, the error still occurred. So, we dug a bit further, and this is what we found.
The error code is actually one of two things, a) a faulty sector on the internal hard drive, or b) a faulty installation of software/firmware, both iterations actually coincide with each other. If the hard drive suffers a faulty sector (a section of damaged space on the drive that data may have been written to that no longer is readable), an installation may still be processed, and even work, but the error can cause some serious side effects, such as option b. If your PS3 has installed an item incorrectly, including firmware, it is in high risk of receiving this error."
So the plot thickens. Now even more questions come to mind. Are we now dealing with two separate, yet minute (in terms of total failures reported) problems that we can expect to see a minority of PS3 owners to experience, or are these truly cause and effect? An even greater question has to be thrown out there: Since the failure rate of the PS3 seems to be well within reasonable standards for a piece of electronic equipment, why does it look as if Sony is being mum on the subject?
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Still have my ps3 copies. Bought it at launch and another one when I found it cheap and in perfect condition about 10 years ago. I wouldn’t buy it on Switch but if they made a PS5 version I would. I still have one of my PS3 Fats hooked up so good to go either way.
Id play it again on the switch. I wished my 360 version was bc but this is still a good way to play.
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People are stupid I get it. No one should feel unsafe,
But I think they need to talk about why they cut so many corners during the development process and why none of their games ever look current. And why they think all of this is okay while they charge full price.
As much as Bethesda deserve criticism, that's not really relevant to the reveal of Fallout 3 in 2007.
The default angle Kotaku always go for is to highlight the worst in gaming.
I would’ve focused on the creative.
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Two small issues or not(compared to RROD)its probably bigger than what they would have you believe, give more PS3's time to have the error.
Is it mere coincedence that when you dial 8-001-0514 on your touch tone phone that Bill picks up?
Captain bot and his buried treasue kronies like to play dirty.
Look's like a blog, but that can't be right? Blogs are against the rules are they not?
Eitherway, who cares about this guys PS3 or that guys 360. If it happens to YOUR console then it becomes a concern. It's harsh but frankly, I don't give a sh!t about some unlucky dude who's console went up in smoke.
My 8800GTX melted. I can right a blog and you can post that if you want? Oh sorry, its not made by Sony/MS is it....
It's probably that it's obvious how often they hear about it. Hardly ever. Therefore, they might not have any idea what it is.
Also, I hate to be the pessimist, but isn't also possible that some human error could be involved here? Considering there are specifics instructions NOT to do certain things while installing firmware, I think it's entirely possible that somebody could have just messed up.
Besides, there's a reason warnings are around. For example:
DANGER-Coffee is hot!
WARNING-Do not consume!
CAUTION-Do not turn off your PS3 during installation of firmware!
They are there because someone was too stupid to have the common sense to realize that to begin with.
that rumor has been started from 360 owners, who are jealous of the fiability of the PS3.