Everyone knows about the Xbox 360 RROD (red ring of death) thanks to some 33% of games consoles getting this problem, now we have proof of the Sony PS3 death with a so called YLOD.
The video below shows a Playstation 3 with yellow lights, it sounds like a hard drive gone bad to me from the clicking noise as that’s what I have had with many PC hard drives.
Every product gets faults, but it’s just what percentage of that product that counts. We have heard around 1% of PS3’s have problems and why shouldn’t they, but this is nothing compared to the well known and joked about world-wide RROD.
In the case of the gamer that made this video below, his console has already been taken away by Sony.
Update:
raza514 made a good point, the sound is not coming from the ps3….it was there before he turned it on.
98 responses so far ↓
1 Ivan_PSP // Jan 19, 2008 at 10:23 am
Fake, PS3 is not like the Xbox 360 cheap. PLAYSTATION 3 will never like that unless the owner makes it do it. No one will ever believe this crap…
2 raw // Jan 19, 2008 at 10:29 am
“Your hot pocket is still not ready”
3 Steve // Jan 19, 2008 at 10:47 am
Oh look a story about a broken PS3 that’s actually just a thinly veiled excuse to carry on the RROD debate, nice job! keep trolling.
4 raza514 // Jan 19, 2008 at 10:53 am
That sound is not comin from ps3….it was there even b4 he turned on the ps3….
5 Daniel // Jan 19, 2008 at 11:40 am
Well spotted raza514, I updated that fact in the post.
6 Daniel // Jan 19, 2008 at 11:47 am
Steve, I am just showing that the PS3 is not perfect, although I do own a PS3 as the 360 got RROD and I did not want to send it back many times like other gamers have.
And for a “RROD debate”, thats not what this is about (this is news of one PS3 gamers problem) you have said that, the fact is there is no debate as RROD is a one side story…it happens a lot.
7 laurence // Jan 19, 2008 at 11:55 am
uno i bet hes bricked his ps3 after sum hack and thats why its not working.
8 smoothn00dle // Jan 19, 2008 at 11:56 am
what this kid has done to my PS3? Do u take the harddisc out?
Someone should put the 40gig model through the reliable test again.
9 sirlardship // Jan 19, 2008 at 12:03 pm
he’s getting something to make the noise and somepne to turn off the ps3 when it comes on. what a load of rubbish
10 Superdynamite // Jan 19, 2008 at 2:15 pm
1 PS3 out of 1,000,000 doesn’t work.
7 out of 10 XBox 360 don’t work.
This article is nothing more than XBox fanboy propaganda.
11 xXBADGERXx // Jan 19, 2008 at 2:41 pm
SirLardShip , if someone was cutting the power to the PS3 then the Red standby Light would go out , And Ivan_PSP , don`t be a COMPLETE ignoramus and think that there is no such thing as a failed PS3 unit in this world .
12 Arkon // Jan 19, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Whats wrong with you kids? all the guy is doing is sharing that PS3 has its own form of RROD. Nothing more! Stop crying about it!
The 4 posters above me… you earn the Retard Award
13 Commodore // Jan 19, 2008 at 3:55 pm
That same exact thing happened to me….Right when COD4 came out I was pissed…..Had to order a new hard drive….still didn’t fix the problem…So I had to get a new PS3
14 Gamehero // Jan 19, 2008 at 4:23 pm
WELL SAID SUPERDYNAMITE!
15 aeib // Jan 19, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Propaganda shit like this only sparks dumbass hearsay. “forget the RROD”? Poor choice of words. To take an unheard and questionable issue and spout it to something so loudly without research is dumb as hell. Had it been as bad of an issue like it is with the 360’s RROD then it should have been addressed as such, but instead you use some questionable video of a ps3 with a yellow light, without even a description of the problem by the guy in the video, and use it to bring forth some “FORGET RROD! PS3 HAS YLOD!!” crap
Electronics are prone to failure no doubt, and the fact that the ps3 has a generally low failure rate is a testament to what sony did when they designed it. However this doesnt qualify as news. Its probably just some fanboy trying to make a point. And failing miserably.
This is just some really sad attempt to start some shit and sadly, its working. Mission accomplished for you then eh?
16 xXBADGERXx // Jan 19, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Yeah almost the same propaganda to spout unrealistic statistics from the planet Bullshit , there`s way more PS3 failiures than is admitted to , happens to the best of us
17 DJ DaveLee // Jan 19, 2008 at 5:12 pm
does the fool know how to reset the system by holding both the reset and power for 10 seconds.
18 NoProof // Jan 19, 2008 at 5:15 pm
How is this proof of anything other than proving that the PS3 has a yellow LED? Regardless of the fact this is not even close to the RROD (most PS3 owners are on their 1st one, most 360 owners are on their 11th one) you don’t know what “torture” this machine was put through to cause this error.
You worry when everyone you speak to has had at least one broken console, a la the 360, not when some 360 fanboy has blocked all the airholes took a strong magnet to the HDD and then tried to start it (how do you know what they did to get this?)
For all you know a yellow LED means HDD failure, for all you know you might be able to re-create the same error light by removing the HDD and trying to start up the console. What does a PS3 do when you start it without a HDD inserted? I don’t know, I’m not going to try, but maybe these people did, maybe it gives a yellow light and shuts down again…
19 xXBADGERXx // Jan 19, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Well obviously he isn`t a fool as it says the unit has been picked up by Sony for repair , that means he has called Tech support and they would have Ironed out any Idiotic things like that , Jesus , you guys tend to type without thinking first .
20 WDino // Jan 19, 2008 at 5:47 pm
i think that happens wen the HDD is not install.
21 raza514 // Jan 19, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Thanku Daniel….
22 Chris Franklin // Jan 19, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Hmm. I find this kind of odd. He could have done a hard reset by holding the power button for 10 seconds.
23 Young Savage // Jan 19, 2008 at 9:30 pm
The clicking noise was coming BEFORE he even switched the MAIN POWER ON so there was no electric flow = no clicking from ps3
what a fake just to try to bag on the ps3
24 ps3 gangsta // Jan 19, 2008 at 9:39 pm
lol still means nothing cuz ps3 have less then 1% fail rate while 360 have a 30% fail rate mmm now what do you think more reliable . erm ps3. the ps3 is designed to last 10 years the 360 couple of months.
25 Chris // Jan 19, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Wow, that’s obviously fake. I’ve been on the PS3 forums ever since it’s come out, and I haven’t heard one happening anything like that.
Way to make shit up…
Now do us all a favor and go back to Bill Gate’s house. It looks like it’s your turn in the long line of 360 fanboys who want to suck his dick
26 Chris // Jan 19, 2008 at 10:21 pm
wow
27 Treefingers // Jan 19, 2008 at 10:22 pm
It doesnt sound like anything is wrong when it boots up. It seems more than likely that there is no HDD in the unit. PS3 needs a HDD to boot.
28 Chris // Jan 19, 2008 at 10:23 pm
This is obviously fake, I’ve been around the Playstation Forums since the PS3 came out and I haven’t even heard of this once.
Now excuse me while I wait for my 7th RROD’d 360 to ship back. I’m going to go play Uncharted in the meantime.
29 Mike // Jan 20, 2008 at 12:41 am
Yeah I just send away for my 11th xbox I think we should all just buy the ps3, enough is enough!!!!!!
30 Devil's Advocate // Jan 20, 2008 at 1:59 am
Not surprising. Do a search on youtube and you will find lots of PS3s with problems. Why do you fanboys insist the PS3 is perfect and that this video must be fake? Please get a grip on reality!
Are you saying nothing from Sony ever breaks down? What about the disc read errors with the PS2? What about the laptop batteries that would catch fire? What about the problems with the CCD on cameras?
These must be “fake” problems as well, right?
31 Dumb Ass // Jan 20, 2008 at 3:06 am
@Devil’s Advocate
“Why do you fanboys insist the PS3 is perfect and that this video must be fake? Please get a grip on reality!”
Plain and simple. The clicking noise is heard well before the PS3 is even turned on. Give me a fucking break. That sums it all up. Just as Superdynamite mentioned, PROPAGANDA! This idiot just took the freaking hard drive out. Nice try Bill Gates with your anti PS3 internet propaganda goobers.
32 1234576 // Jan 20, 2008 at 3:10 am
fake… i mean. u fu_cking xbots fanboys.. stop making sh1t like this… stop making urself funny… GT sucks
33 Roger // Jan 20, 2008 at 3:41 am
What I suspect is that he has removed the harddrive and does not have one in the PS3 as he’s starting it. Because the harddrive is missing the system cannot boot. I have never seen this happen on my console but who knows. Less than 1% failure rate is pretty damn good. Xbox owners would love to brag if only their console didn’t meltdown 33% of the time.
34 kpepe // Jan 20, 2008 at 4:11 am
When the lights are flashing red because the system froze you need to wait for the lights to stop blinking bcuz the HDD is saving what it can. Then you wait a minute and restart the system. Your not supposed to turn off the system while the HDD indicator is flashing and when the red lights flash after freeze the HDD flashes aswell. Also like above noted the sound was before the PS3 was turned on.
35 Chris... // Jan 20, 2008 at 4:54 am
DA, I’m not saying that everything is perfect, but not once in nearly two years have I heard of a “yellow light of death”. If it’s real, big whoop. If it isn’t, then wow, one PS3 with one yellow light.
I really don’t see the point in trying to move the focus away from the 360’s RROD even in the situation it’s still in. Microsoft needs to do something about it, because they fucked up and rushed the 360 after the original Xbox too quickly, and now I’m really not enjoying my 360 experience
36 Art // Jan 20, 2008 at 6:09 am
Actually sounds like a disc is stuck in there and fell off the spindle. Must of knocked it over and then the spindle spinning inside has nothing to grap now will the disc come out. the n again the noise was there before he flipped the main power in the back. Any electronis can not have running noises with no power to it.
37 Lieutenant Dickbutt // Jan 20, 2008 at 6:14 am
You never find a PS3 with a problem because the owner watches Talladega Nights once and never turns it on again.
38 HAHAHAH // Jan 20, 2008 at 6:16 am
@Devil’s Advocate
“Why do you fanboys insist the PS3 is perfect and that this video must be fake? Please get a grip on reality!”
Plain and simple. The clicking noise is heard well before the PS3 is even turned on. Give me a break. That sums it all up. Just as Superdynamite mentioned, PROPAGANDA! This idiot just took the freaking hard drive out. Nice try Bill Gates with your anti PS3 internet propaganda goobers.
39 Dude // Jan 20, 2008 at 6:32 am
I’m not a fan boy on either side I just game. All electronics will have failures. What’s important to me is how manufactures handle their failures. I think Sony, Apple, and Microsoft all have done their best to take care of their customers.
40 The Future of Sega // Jan 20, 2008 at 6:39 am
Wow, what a fuck….Any news about Dual fuck 3 coming to the US anyone?
41 issac // Jan 20, 2008 at 8:14 am
why doesnt he just reset it.
42 johnnyb // Jan 20, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I’m on my 15th xbox, 6 of them were the elites!!!!!
43 Jeff // Jan 20, 2008 at 6:31 pm
What short memories?
PS3 is a very well built machine without any problems that compare to the 360’s, but the PSX and certainly the PS2 was nearly as bad as the 360.
44 Jeff // Jan 20, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Also, where does this “33%” statistic come from? Can we get a source for this? Or do they not believe in Journalistic integrity in Europe?
45 ok // Jan 20, 2008 at 7:00 pm
If you was to remove the hdd, would you get the yellow light? Yes that clicking sound was there before they switched on the power and hdd don’t make those noises without power.
46 Chris... // Jan 21, 2008 at 2:02 am
Amen to that, Dude. Unfortunately, 360 fanboys just have to, HAVE TO, have the last say when anything good is said about another console.
Any news when an Xbox 360 that doesn’t have hardware that’s as reliable as a piece of shit coming to the US anyone?
47 Grover // Jan 21, 2008 at 2:09 am
This seems to be the theme of this website:
“dredge up any BS so as to make fanboys respond with fervour”.
This article is about as informative as reading toilet paper after its been used. Absolutely pointless crap.
48 Grover // Jan 21, 2008 at 2:10 am
Oh. I should point out, that this fault is NOT terminal - this idiot has purposely caused this to happen, by removing the hdd. Try it. Remove the hdd and turn it on.. ooohh.. look yellow light. Frikkin idiots.
49 Mr.preston // Jan 21, 2008 at 5:36 am
wow…this is fake more propaganda…A FANTASY!!!
c’mon xbox people how come y’all cant just take the fact that the 360 is crappy.for all the people saying that there on their 11th 360…check it!…the 360 came out in 05,04 one of them two
id say i am on my…(wait for it…wait for it…MY 15th microsoft xbox 360…yeah my 15TH xbox 360)
anyways back to the subject earlier today i read this did not pay any attention to it…i took my 1 terabyte sata hard drive disk(custom fitted via ps3 hdd adaptor google it) out and the so called “YELLOW LIGHT OF DEATH” turned on and i was like Hmmm so that what happens so i called sony computer entertainment america and asked them was that supposed to happen and they said YES WHEN THE PLAYSTATION CANT FIND THE HARD DRIVE AND IT NEEDS THE HDD TO BOOT UP(LIKE A PC)and i said oh…okay
and said thanks sooo…xbox fanboys WHAT ARE YOU trying to say…huh? y’all should go somewhere and kill yourself…you will get a full page in the newspaper to yourself…
FOR THOSE WHO LIKE WHAT I SAID…GOOD HALLER AT ME
AND FOR THOSE WHO DONT LIKE WHAT I SAID…GOOD HALLER AT ME but in the meantime i will be playing my first and my last PS3 and my 15th 360 on my big screen
50 Arkon // Jan 21, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Ok. to all the Retards saying “DA KLICKING NOISE WAZ ALREADY DER” IF you learn to read, you can see it says that in the first fecking message.
Now to all the PS3 Fanboys ranting and raving on here… Get a Life. or even better… end yours, coz you a bunch of fucking idiots.
LEARN
TOO
READ
51 Scott M. B. // Jan 21, 2008 at 5:42 pm
So what appened his hd broke and hes getting it fixed? Happens in my computer hd’s suck. Why is every one getting there pantys tied up?
Returned my 360 twice now hope to get a ps3 so the real story is if something does happed to your Ps3 Sony will fix it, good to know.
52 johnnyb // Jan 21, 2008 at 7:53 pm
ps3 sold 2.56 million consoles last year that is why these fanboys are on these sites crying. ps2 users have chosen the xbox, the 18 million users prove that, 10 million subscribed to LIVE.
53 Chris... // Jan 22, 2008 at 12:54 am
wow, johnny. You’re super smart!
Last time I checked, the 360 came out a year earlier than the PS3… it must be true, right? You’re smart, right, so tell me if that’s true or false.
18 million!? Are you fucking kidding me? Where do you get your numbers, there are probably 16 million 360’s sold AT MOST, and listen to this… THE 360 SALES ARE SO HIGH BECAUSE THE SAME PEOPLE HAVE TO BUY ANOTHER 360 FOR THE 3RD, 4TH, AND 5TH TIME. The 360’s been out this long, and it still has problems this bad? It’s a joke, Microsoft needs to straighten itself out and fix the fucked-box 360.
54 Arkon // Jan 22, 2008 at 11:29 am
Chris… your a fucking idiot.
when a 360 dies, its replaced, they dont have to buy a new one, coz if they did them they was robbed
55 johnnyb // Jan 22, 2008 at 3:34 pm
i get my figures from all the independant retail sales figures. Check out google news……18 million xbox users, 10 million LIVE users……2.56 ps3s sold 2007.
56 Chris... // Jan 23, 2008 at 12:56 am
Arkon, do you know how many stupid 360 owners with a shitload of money to throw away just buy another 360 after theirs breaks? Not everyone even knows of the replacement plan, my neighbor bought 2 Xbox 360s before he even found out he could get the 3rd replaced.
And yet, have you ever thought that some of those numbers are Xbox 360’s shipped, not sold. It’s really not that hard for some asshole working at Microsoft to include refurbished units in the overall numbers. If 18 million 360s have been “sold”, I bet less than half of those include people who bought a 360 and still have it. Chances are a good chunk of the numbers are new 360s shipped back to the people waiting while their old RROD’d 360 hit the bucket.
57 johnnyb // Jan 23, 2008 at 11:44 am
Selective reading Chris??? The post is right above you and they are retail figures not microsofts, not shipped. I’m sorry if your neighbours are retards but xbox always had 1 years warranty and is now covered to 3. I think the thing that annoys you ps3 fanboys the most is why these people still choose it over the ps3 and the simple fact is online play. I don’t know why ps3 does not issue a free headset because the atmosphere in cod4 is unbelievable for xbox compared to ps3
58 Chris... // Jan 24, 2008 at 1:09 am
Oh… since when is being stuck with a 1st party headset better than using any bluetooth headset you want with a PS3?
59 johnnyb // Jan 24, 2008 at 2:29 pm
errr. Because they are supplied free with every console and any time you subscribe to LIVE.
60 Chris... // Jan 24, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Strange, since you’ve been able to use any bluetooth headset you want with the PS3 since launch, yet for the 360, you had to buy the specific headset. Great, what about the people who bought a 360 and subscribed to Live a year ago? They had to buy the headset
61 johnnyb // Jan 25, 2008 at 12:39 am
No they didn’t lol you’re just guessing now! It has always been supplied with the console as standard, when subscribing to LIVE and even with some games. Most people start off with at least 2, I have 4 but still use the first because I’ve worn it in. My point was about the atmosphere on xbox compared to ps3, there is total silence with nobody else talking during games like cod4 which would suggest people who have ps3 don’t want to buy them. Is that because they aren’t free or that the network is shit anyway???
62 johnnyb // Jan 25, 2008 at 12:46 am
No they didn’t! Lol are you just going to start making stuff up now??? It has always been free with the console as standard, with LIVE and also with some games. Most people start with at least 2, I have 4 and still use the first because it is worn in. The question you have to ask if all this variety of ps3 headsets exist why do they not buy them? The atmosphere is games like cod4 is awful compared to xbox. Maybe it’s because ps3 has an awful network?
63 VegaC18 // Jan 25, 2008 at 2:47 pm
I never took out my hd but i did overheated it on purpose and all that happened was that it turned off.I did that several times and it just turnes off.
The only thing i found its a glitch on the control.It tends to freeze up while i’m playing and the game gets stuck doing my last response over and over for a few seconds.Not sure if is for surtin games or what but that’s one.
The other i can’t hear any off my music while playing,but i can while on the net.Maybe SONY will fix that soon.
The ps3 network is free and not many want to buy a headset.Hell i’ve use my ps2 headset sometimes but i stopped using it,just to many big babies crying (stop that,that’s cheating,)oh and the ones insulting your family.
On the 360 i got my headset and another when i bought my new membership.True you get more players chatting but that’s to be expected,afterall we paid for it why not abuse it alittel right.
both network are good it’s just depends on the games u like.so tell me,did u play COD4 on the ps3?….so the atmosphere?
64 johnnyb // Jan 25, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Yeah my friend bought a ps3 for Christmas. The reason he picked it was to play his old ps2 games but some discovered he couldn’t and he’s a bit pissed about that. We played cod4 which was like a totally different game compared to LIVE where everybody talks and watches each others backs. Also played FIFA which is awful online, one minute you have the ball, next thing there’s a pause and the ball’s in the back of the net. On LIVE it’s just smooth gameplay.
65 Scott M. B. // Jan 25, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I didnt get one with my first box (360) but when it rrod the second one came with one. Never had a game come with one though.
Either way I never even used it, it just seems wierd to have some one you can’t punch in the face beak off about sh!t they don’t know.
66 johnnyb // Jan 25, 2008 at 6:16 pm
That guess not everybody thinks that, 10 million are subscribed to LIVE
67 Chris... // Jan 26, 2008 at 3:56 am
Jesus, johnny, since when can one person constantly defend all the flaws of the 360? Smooth gameplay on XBL? My ass. I played Gears of War on a high-speed connection at my friends house the other day, and we were spit out from the game and lagging every 10 minutes or so. Resistance, flawless. I’m not sure what you’re smoking, but I’ve been playing the PS3 online for over a year without one single lag experience, and that’s using a router that reaches 8,000kb at max
68 johnnyb // Jan 26, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Ok I’m sorry you’re right if you say ps3 has never had a single lag for you I believe you and I also believe you about your “friends” high speed connection that lagged every 10 minutes lol. If LIVE is so bad why do people re-subscribe, especially when it costs money. If xbox is so crap why has it got such a massive user base? Are we all missing something because ps3 has been out for around a year now? You can’t just dismiss that size of a userbase
69 raza514 // Jan 26, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Hey Johnnyb ppl re subscribe to the xbox live coz they hve no other option of playin online….Got it?
70 johnnyb // Jan 26, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Why not trade in their xbox for a ps3 then if psn is so great? lol. If it was such a crap service they wouldn’t use it again but they do
71 Chris... // Jan 26, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Why is the user base so large? Duh, maybe because the 360 has been out since 2005, duh, I don’t know?
72 johnnyb // Jan 26, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Yes that’s one reason. Others include that it has the best online network, best exclusives, better graphics when it comes to mulit format games because the majority of ps3 games are xbox ports.
73 Chris... // Jan 26, 2008 at 9:36 pm
I respect your opinion, johnny, but I’d have to retaliate against those points…
Best online network? Sure, XBL is good, but I like the PSN, too. Not to mention, you have to PAY for XBL, and it’s been around since 2002, whereas the Playstation Network has only been around since 2006, and look at it now! It has definitely excelled much further in it’s time span compared to Xbox Live.
Best exclusives? At this, you are very, very wrong. The only exclusives on the 360 I would buy would be MAYBE Halo 3, which is going to come to the PC anyways, Dead Rising… and that’s probably it. I’ll play Bioshock, Gears of War, and the other PC-360 games on my PC.
On the other hand, the PS3 has Resistance, Motorstorm, Warhawk, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet and Clank, God of War, Metal Gear Solid, Killzone, Final Fantasy, InFamous, the Agency, Haze, Uncharted, Gran Turismo, Jak and Daxter, Socom, and LittleBigPlanet! I’d love to mention Unreal Tournament III, but fortunately you can at least play that amazing game on your PC if you have one.
Better graphics on multi-platform games? I disagree, but let’s say, theoretically speaking, some 360 games do have slightly better graphics. If that’s true, then what’s the point if most 360s in homes don’t even have HDMI? That’s another big mistake on Microsoft’s behalf, if you want to get the best out of your 720 and 1080 resolutions, HDMI is the standardized way to go. The 360 joined too late with the Elite and the newer Xbox 360, while the PS3 has had HDMI since launch. On the flipside, I’ve been enjoying HD games since December of 2006. Don’t get me wrong, Gears of War has amazingly detailed graphics, but still, Gears on a standard cable doesn’t match up to any PS3 game. I didn’t forget component cables, but then you’re still not getting the best quality.
Going back to exclusive, the PS3 has incredible graphics. Console games like Uncharted, Unreal Tournament III, Ratchet and Clank, Motorstorm, and Heavenly Sword have some of the most amazing graphics I have ever seen on a video game console.
74 johnnyb // Jan 26, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Believe it or not I personally don’t rate halo, I think it was overhyped but I think the point is even if you play these on your pc you will never play these on your ps3. Bioshock has proved what xbox is capable of in terms of graphics and size using only one disk. Old xboxs don’t have HDMI but in terms of future sales this is no longer an issue no more and they haven’t done too badly sales wise anyway. In the multi console chart xbox had 11 number ones last year which beat the wii and ps3 only had 3 number ones so even though those games you describe have good graphics they are still failing to create sales for the ps3.
75 VegaC18 // Jan 27, 2008 at 1:43 am
games for the 360 will strart to go down.not because of the console ( forget about the RROD for a minute ) but because of its lack of space on the disc.hell i still play COD4 on my 360 & at my buddy’s ps3 ( they kick his ass online ) but im starting to see more ps3 games looking better on it.maybe because of the HDMI.
R:FOM is to this day going strong.i thought it will lose players over time but i started playing it again ( online gaming is fun ) but i forgot how to play & got fucked.
i’ll keep playing ( and paying ) online games for this year,then keep the console that play’s better.i need to get a 360 Elite to see for myself witch console really looks better cuz HDMI rocks.
76 johnnyb // Jan 27, 2008 at 8:26 pm
The lack of space will be an issue but only for sandbox games, with any other game a second disk can be used although xbox have pretty much avoided this so far, games like bioshock have showed just how much xbox can handle. Xbox has the user base and is easier and cheaper to develop for at present so I can’t see the games stopping for a few years yet
77 Chris... // Jan 28, 2008 at 1:20 am
“if you play these on your pc you will never play these on your ps3″
Sorry, johnny, that’s wrong, and this little piece of news really tipped some favor towards the PS3. As I said earlier in this discussion, you CAN play PC games on your PS3. An app came out earlier this month allowing anyone with a PS3 to play PC games. Crysis, Bioshock, Halo 2, you name it.
So… you can play Halo and Gears of War on a PS3. Now what? Doesn’t that make the 360 pointless for most games?
78 johnnyb // Jan 29, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Cedega runs fine in gentoox on xbox. The problem with xbox cedega and ps3 cedega is the lack of their respected linux’s support of any video acceleration. All video output on both is software rendered no 3d at all. Transgaming does have a linux based software based 3d accelerator, but with the cap PS3 puts on its linux allowed resources, this will be slow. That is why sony have been so quiet about this because the games will play awful
79 Scott M. B. // Jan 29, 2008 at 5:53 pm
“The Cell’s performance is more than enough to handle most media requirements or render complex 3D graphics, it does however lack the TFLOPS performance of a contemporary GPU’s texture fetching hardware. For this reason many complex games aren’t possible on the PlayStation 3 through Linux”
Sorry just stole this from wiki.
But the way to strweam games to the ps3 is not through Linux its a different program so there should not be any restriction?
80 sam // Jan 29, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Yes but there are restrictions, namely the legality of the whole thing. Bottom line is it could be done under linux but not very well so that defeats the whole purpose of doing it.
81 Chris... // Jan 29, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Cadega? WTF?
No, StreamMyGames lets you play any PC game on the Playstation 3. Gears of War, Halo, Crysis, Supreme Commander, Bioshock, you name it. The gameplay I saw from Crysis on the PS3 was actually fairly good, without any noticeable lagging. Crysis on a $400 console? That’s amazing.
Let’s see the 360 do that…
82 Scott M. B. // Jan 30, 2008 at 12:02 am
I would have to agree with Sam, How long before Microsoft puts a stop to it? There is no way they would want news like this floating around the web.
And if this is just your computer running the game why not just run it straight from your computer to TV? Why route through the ps3 at all? If you can run crysis I am sure your video card has video out.
Plus would you be able to map the six axis buttons accordingly?
Sorry for all the questions but I am going to get a Ps3 and these is good stuff to know. Playing Civilization on my big TV with Bluetooth mouse and keyboard would be awesome (I never could get my X800 to display right on my TV and I have video out component so that kind of answers my second question)
83 johnnyb // Jan 30, 2008 at 2:12 am
Chris go find out what cadega is before you post your ignorant comments. Ps3 can barely produce a decent port from the xbox on it’s system so I’d actually like to see them have a go at this. Maybe they should focus more on making a few games of their own instead of being so desperate they need to think of ways to steal microsofts.
This works both ways because there’s nothing stopping someone from designing a program to play ps3 games on a pc with a blu ray drive except of course the legality of the whole thing.
84 Chris... // Jan 30, 2008 at 9:47 pm
You could try that Scott, but I’d guess that it would be easier to play with a mouse and keyboard. Any wireless/USB accessory is fine.
Lol, so I’m not the only big Civilization fan here. I’d like to try that out too, playing on a 42″ HDTV *drools
85 Scott M. B. // Jan 30, 2008 at 10:11 pm
I heard COD4 and burnout paradise look the same on both systems.
So it’s hard to tell what johnnyb is trying to say, I think it sounds like “oh crap all my Microsoft shares are losing value”.
To quote you “Ps3 can barely produce a decent port from the Xbox on its system so I’d actually like to see them have a go at this. Maybe they should focus more on making a few games of their own instead of being so desperate they need to think of ways to steal Microsoft’s.”
Fist off the stream my game program is not Sony’s as I am sure you know.
So you just sound like an idiot fan boy and second see my first comment about how ports look the same. You just want to bitch or be a bitch either way, not cool Johnny.
And was the last part of your riveting write up supposed to make people mad because I am sure that will happen and all the power to them kind of like playing mame or snes emulators no?
86 I GUESS U PPL DONT READ // Jan 30, 2008 at 11:57 pm
THIS TIME I’LL PUT IT IN CAPS…SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME, HES NOT BSing….HAPPENED TO ME AS SOON AS I GOT CoD 4….I WAS PISSED AND HAD TO TRY AND GET A NEW HARD DRIVE (DIDN’T WORK) SO I HAD TO GET A NEW PS3
87 Chris... // Jan 31, 2008 at 2:39 am
wow, you’re great at making up stories. In case you haven’t noticed, it’s already been confirmed that the problem only happens when you take out the HDD -.-
88 johnnyb // Jan 31, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Scott it’s hard to understand what the fuck you’re going on about? I have shares with microsoft??? Trying to make you mad?? And bitching either way because I haven’t read your first comment?
You posted that comment after me so how could I be arguing with you if I haven’t read it?? What the fuck are you are you saying, you don’t make sense!!!
“I heard COD4 and burnout paradise look the same on both systems. ” ………..Ok you’ve clearly won the argument lol
89 Scott M. B. // Jan 31, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Were you not saying “Ps3 can barely produce a decent port from the Xbox on its system”
And a port being a game? No?
And it is not that you’re arguing with me, you just seem to be arguing with anyone.
Oh about the first comment I meant in that specific post about the ports, sorry should have cleared that up for you.
As for the Microsoft shares I just figured anyone who gets that worked up about something must have some serious stakes, E.G. shares or employment why else would you get so worked up about this?
Now why not reply to some of my points,
Stream my game is not Sony property so how are they stealing games?
Stealing bluray games on the computer is the same as stealing ds games, nes games etc.. so what is your point?
Last what does Cadega have anything to do with anything, I don’t know anything about Linux but YDLinux has a version just for Ps3 wouldn’t that be the way one would go?
90 johnnyb // Jan 31, 2008 at 10:11 pm
linux will be using cadega to run these games on ps3 but ps3 has restrictions on these libraries because they can also be used to hack so that means the games will be a far cry from the 60fps that these games are capable of.
“Stealing bluray games on the computer is the same as stealing ds games, nes games etc.. so what is your point?” It’s pretty clear what my point is, I was referring to a previous post, enough of the stupid questions.
If you want to stream these games go on ahead but you won’t be helping ps3 buy paying for microsoft games.
91 Scott M. B. // Jan 31, 2008 at 11:54 pm
So Cadega runs windows in a Linux environment (I don’t know Linux) If so I think that has nothing to do with the StreamMyGames application.
So Cadega is not necessary we already know it “lacks the blah of a blah. For this reason blah aren’t possible on the PlayStation 3 through Linux”
I can read your posts and still see no point?
I loved my 360 and I am going to love my PS3 (I only like the Wii for its VC) I believe in competition and I buy games for the games not the corporation the property belongs to.
So yes I can run windows games on the ps3 with streammygame application and run Linux (osx?) for firefox and assorted apps this Ps3 looks more and more appealing to me all the time.
You where right about one thing though and that is that Halo 3 was way over rated.
92 johnnyb // Feb 1, 2008 at 1:11 am
Well if you admit don’t know what you are talking about is you shouldn’t make so many ignorant remarks.
The point was to chris. He said said what use was the xbox with this streamer and i said it works both ways because ps3 games could be copied also. You really are a moron if you re-read that twice and didn’t get. Don’t post to me again
93 Chris... // Feb 1, 2008 at 2:55 am
You have a good point, Scott. There are YDL versions for the PS3, etc., and they all work extremely well. You could use firefox, yet the PS3 browser isn’t bad, but definitely use a keyboard and mouse with it. The combo should be good while playing RTSs and some FPSs on your PS3
94 Lia // Mar 9, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Fake, fake, fake.
This is just a way to make the PS3 look terrible. I won’t deny that the PS3 may have a problem for some people but that’s a tiny, tiny percentage. I’ve had my PS3 since August 2007 and it works fine. Sometimes it would freeze but when I start it again, it works fine.
Nice try XBot.
95 Neal // Apr 17, 2008 at 2:06 am
omfg this happen to me on saturday, april 12th while playing rainbow six vegas 2…so mad right now…but ima try to replace the HDD nd see if that works…
96 Neal // Apr 17, 2008 at 2:07 am
oh yea nd btw its not fake…
yea its a 2% chance of happening but look up vids on youtube…they all had the same problem. i got mine december of 06.
97 Shawn // Jun 9, 2008 at 11:50 pm
this same thing happend to me yesterday when playing CoD4. It shut off n had a flashing red light. got up pushed standby button and it stopped flashing. pused it again and it powered on, green light, fan ran for a second, yellow light, 3 beeps, then flashing red light. i tried having it unplugged, and left it sit for a day thinking it might have overheated. the next day it didnt work. called sony, gave them my info, and they said they would ship me a box. i put my ps3 in box with form filled out and sent it back. they said it would take 7-14 days. cost was $162.04. to top that off, MGS4 is out in 3 days.
98 Shawn // Jun 9, 2008 at 11:51 pm
ohh and its an original 60 gig
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