Comments on: Playstation 3 Turns Into Useless Brick After Firmware Update 2.01

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:30:37 +0000

Just so you know the actual number of defects from this up date as of june 16th 2009 is 345,674 that is quit a bit. As for your smart ass remarks to people with this problem sooner or later you will have problems and need helpt too. But if you really want to be a dick we can meet up and Ill give your doctor some problems to fix on your fagot ass face!

By: Ian Jones

Ian Jones — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:11:27 +0000

This recently happened to me in France, and the store is saying they want 200 Euros for the repair! Apparently, regardless of what the issue is with a malfunctioning PS3, they charge a flat-fee for the repair. The machine was 3 months out of guarantee.

I like Sony products, but this has made me a very, very upset customer.

By: gabe

gabe — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:30:34 +0000

BD error. Nothing reads, Only the main menu loads. Piece of SH%T.

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:19:32 +0000

My second PS3 just died, same thing as before. The funny thing is I hardly ever use it and it just died. My launch 360 was replaced once, I’m on my third PS3 in a year.

By: paul

paul — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:42:02 +0000

am no 360 fan i got a ps3 and mines does the same thing, i still got couple of weeks left while i can still replace my ps3 so i might be lucky and get a new one.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:40:45 +0000

mine did the same thing.

By: ps3

ps3 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:51:20 +0000

It happened to mine after the 2.41 update in aug 08 exactly the same as yours, wouldn’t play dvd’s or games, but would play games that were on my hard drive, then they sent me a ps3 with a supersonic fan that was always on and you couldn’t hear anything else in the room, now on my third and everything is fine, super quiet even after 8 hours. It’s not a scam, it happens, and i didn’t do anything while it was updating, and it happened straight after the update, but all this considered i still wouldn’t swap it for a red ring piece of crap xbox 360

By: Easerside

Easerside — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:08:30 +0000

wow !!
its very reasonable point of view.
Nice post.
realy gj

thx :-)

By: kujo

kujo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:32:03 +0000

Well it just happened 2 my friend……well its ur fault really,think about it, it clearly says don’t mess with it while its updating….things just dont break on its own know…..u did something wrong.

By: aaron

aaron — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:23:44 +0000

and it does happen to alot of people.
http://www.fixya.com/support/t381209-ps3_not_reading_disk

By: aaron

aaron — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:20:33 +0000

dude it happened to me too. not cool. AT ALL especially since it broke on me after i just started playing Metal Gear Solid 4. WTF!!

By: LC

LC — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:25:22 +0000

oooh Sounds like you have a raging case of the Gremlins,should have followed the directions the old man wrote down in the book that came with your system. Only thing you can do now is hide in your microwave.

By: Hasan

Hasan — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:07:43 +0000

I’ve had my 60GB console for 8 months now.
Last week… I bought GTAIV which requested that I update my system from 1.43 that was working perfectly to 2.01.
I complied.

In the first few days everything seemed normal.
after that … my console went crazy:

1. PS button no longer starts the console.
2. Almost all games that I have freeze on startup. And sometimes -if I made it- during a game, the game starts acting crazy (esp GTA).. the adapter malfunctions and the game freezes.
3. When I restart the machine right after it froze … I often get an error message telling me that something went wrong, and the disc content cannot be loaded.

Can someone tell me what the hell is going on? Did I manage to ruin my machine somehow? or is that all the 2.01 firmware work?

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:20:48 +0000

Yeah I have the same problem too it’s not a f***ing scam like the first two idiots suggested. However I have discovered that it is an internal problem, and by tweaking the reading lens just a tad it fixes it. Sadly it’s either that or having a brick.

By: david

david — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:40:15 +0000

yup, your right same thing happened to me. i doubt its the update, its probably an internal error. i didnt keep the receipt so my ps3 is a brick now and im out 500bucks

By: Whiskey=Good

Whiskey=Good — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:02:59 +0000

Have you played Unreal 3? Outside of the fact it’s made by Epic (gears of war), the fact you can upload maps FREE makes it the death of all FPS. COD4? it’s got the map shipment. Halo? Warlock and lockout. Does the 360 have it? No. And when they do, there will be no user created content. UT3 is better than the three games you mentioned (opinion).

By: mark

mark — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:06:06 +0000

Xbox has better games, where is your bioshock? Crackdown?
Gears of War? NHL 08 is really choppy on the PS3 as well, I have both, and I could care less about the blu ray at the moment, I agree it sucks that the 360s break alot, but I feel it is a better system in terms of games, and that is what i buy a video game console for, not watching movies. Another plus for the PS3 is the free online, that is rather sweet i must say, but I had the PS3 since Xmas and now i have this Hard Disk problem, apparently i have to remove the HD and format it, losing all of my saves, I Know i should have backed it all up, but i was under the impression that these things were of amazing quality and have no problems. Wish it had better games, resistance was a letdown for me, uncharted was too short, I need some God of War.

By: FoldupJosh

FoldupJosh — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:38:07 +0000

its not hard, work out if you have 40gb 60gb or whatever else there is! if you have the 40gb dont download 2.01 simple i dont know why just dont do it or you’ll be moaning like these lot! dont know solution either i guess just wait its not that important an update. if you have the 40gb trade up i dont know the ins and outs but a lot of what ive read 40gb ps3’s tend to be the problem! hense the reason most of you got it free with a phone or summat! cheapskate!

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:29:17 +0000

Xbox magnet. I seriously doubt most of these comments. Perhaps they are pissed their console is so rubbish….,

By: Usaryan

Usaryan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:16:49 +0000

Yep, mines dead too, after installing 2.17 I played about an hour of Eye of Judgment before the game crashed and after rebooting the PS3 won’t read discs of any kind. I am well annoyed because my PS3 is from the UK and I am working in S. Korea for the next year or so and Sony say they will not replace it until I am back in the UK. Nice one Sony,If it was bought in Korea you’de replace it so why not just take it back and give me a Korean PS3, thank for your great customer service.

By: Short stint

Short stint — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:30:14 +0000

Hi,
I’ve recently purchased a 60GB console from online auction. It is an imported one and I am using it in New Zealan (PAL). It was working fine until I decided to update from 1.6 or something to 2.10 when I found out that you were supposed to update the firmware. I throughly enjoyed playing for 2 days… Then the same problem happened to me after successfully reading discs a couple of times. Now a little circle keeps going round and nothing happens. The cosole is not covered by warranty. I’ve just emailed the PS3 New Zealand support hoping that they can come to the rescue. I’ve taken my console to “Sony Service Agent” but turned out to be a costly mistake. money went out, produced no results (was a friendly service though). I wonder if anybody’s found a work-around for this? By the way, I even tried 2.17 that’s just come out. still the same problem…

By: Jankons

Jankons — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:37:11 +0000

Well when I get Ps3 I guess Im not updating

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:34:09 +0000

Brian- you are an idiot.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:28:43 +0000

Well, ladies and gents I dont care about sony or microsoft. I only care that I can play what ever media I buy on the consoles. I own a psp a ps1 a ps2 a ps3, I also own a xbox and a Wii( only 1 Caped) so like I said no follower of any company. As long as the product is good then Im happy. The comment about the Japs doing it right, well they lost the war so go figure. My point is My Ps3 will no longer play DVD Blu Ray or games or any disc of any type I paid money for it to do. ALLLL my friends that have a 360 has had to return or get it repaired, (first release) but again I dont care about brands.To all the sony drones Ill say this dont you remember when it was released all the stores or close to it stopped demoing it because they froze. OHH sony dont wory your Zealets will march to any broken tune you sing. I am currently in the process of sending them mine and getting a new one. If it turns out satisfactory then good but we will see. If you check the web cetian models have a 40% failure rate. So when you want to belittle some one for sharing a problem they had try seeing if its real first instead of crying about some one being unfair to a multi million dollar CORPORATION WHO DONT CARE ABOUT YOU ESPESIALY AMERICANS. Sorry fro mis spelled word my Masters was in basket weaving so I could join the airfoce as an Officer.

By: noor mitri

noor mitri — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:27:43 +0000

I have the problem and the playstation support team is not giving me any solutions. I bought my system while i was abroad thinking its rgion free so what the hell. but now my warrantee is only working in japan and north american sony won’t do fuck all for me. so this article is 100%. i had the problem right after i updated the system.

By: kinmder

kinmder — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:06:19 +0000

yea i got the same stuff brought it back to the store and got a brand new one.

By: Ro

Ro — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:04:08 +0000

i got my ps3 for christmas and it stopped readin anything i put into it 2 days ago. i dont know what update version im on but symptoms are the same as described below. complete pain in the bollox its giving me.

has everyone else brought it back to sony or the shop where they bought it?

By: sg_bullets

sg_bullets — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:52:26 +0000

Still no box from Sony. I just want to play cod4, but i’ve been hearing that cod4 online play is a total disaster lately. So, I’m not as bummed.

ps3’s dying is one thing. cod4 online gameplay, that’s a whole other disaster. Damn you Infinity Ward, get some better servers. Hopefully i get my ps3 back before Battlefield and SOCOM is released!!!

By: jay

jay — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:11:13 +0000

Thank you sg_bullets.

I might get lucky.
I bought my 40gig unit on Gamestop.com on 12/1.
Although Gamestop has a more-than-30-days no-return policy, even for defective item, customer service told me because of Christmas holidays, this 30-days period is extended if you bought your stuff after November.

So today I went to a Gamestop store and had my unit replaced with a new one, no hassle.

I just need it for ten more days before my semester begins. If the problem happened again during the semester, I don’t mind if it takes longer for Sony to repair it.
But I still hope Sony could be responsible to carry out a fix for this problem since many people affected.

Good luck everyone!

By: sg_bullets

sg_bullets — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:00:35 +0000

jay:

update on my situation so far is that i am still waiting for my box for replacement/repair. I’ve been reading up on the us.playstation.com forums and it seems that it is happening to alot of other owners.

Worst part is that it looks like due to the high rise of repair requests the length of time to receive the unit back is being pushed long, some as long as 3 weeks.

I think this entire fiasco is stemming from the firmware update from 2.0 to 2.01 to 2.1. So, hopefully when i get my new/refurb’d ps3 that a direct update to 2.1 will solve all problems and avoid any problems.