might be old, but i lol'd

DosEquis · 08-26-2009, 10:04 PM

YouTube - Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That...

Stylerod · 08-26-2009, 10:12 PM

Loved it. Saw that a while ago on The Onions website.

Donkey® · 08-27-2009, 10:09 PM

People always seem to bash Sony yet I have never had an issue with anything Sony I have owned.

stolz25 · 08-27-2009, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by Donkey®

People always seem to bash Sony yet I have never had an issue with anything Sony I have owned.

Have you owned anything you remember as good? At first when I read this I agreed with you in my head because I didn't specifically remember having any issues with anything Sony, then started wondering how much Sony stuff I actually had in my house. After checking all of it, I don't have one piece of Sony anything.

Stylerod · 08-27-2009, 11:46 PM

I had a Sony camcorder and it's tape door stopped working. I had to have it repaired (at my expense). Two weeks later my friends Sony camcorder (one year newer model) did the exact same thing.

That's about the extent of my bad experiences with Sony products.

DosEquis · 08-28-2009, 08:05 PM

I can honestly say I haven't really had a bad experience with sony stuff. They could have inserted any brand name and I found it just as funny.

Donkey® · 08-29-2009, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by stolz25

Have you owned anything you remember as good? At first when I read this I agreed with you in my head because I didn't specifically remember having any issues with anything Sony, then started wondering how much Sony stuff I actually had in my house. After checking all of it, I don't have one piece of Sony anything.

Just looking around the living room...

PS3
VCR
DVD
headphones
TV

So yes...I have esperience.

motivez · 08-30-2009, 01:30 AM

HDTV, DVD, Laptop, Camera.. no problems with Sony stuff personally. I actually think they make the best LCD TV's

stolz25 · 08-30-2009, 02:06 AM

Originally Posted by Donkey®

PS3

I forgot about this in my search around the house. I do love my PS3.. and no problems with it yet, but it isn't quite a year old either.

thatguyoverthere · 08-30-2009, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by stolz25

I forgot about this in my search around the house. I do love my PS3.. and no problems with it yet, but it isn't quite a year old either.

The PS1 & PS2 are the only game consoles I had to buy twice since the first ones failed. Love the PS, but that's not a great record. (though I hear the XBOX360 has over a 50% failure rate.

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stolz25 · 08-30-2009, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by thatguyoverthere

The PS1 & PS2 are the only game consoles I had to buy twice since the first ones failed.

I had a PS2 which I didn't need to replace, but by the time I upgraded it was getting pretty finicky. Having to put the cd in a few times to get it to read it and that kind of thing.

ChadLS · 08-30-2009, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by thatguyoverthere

(though I hear the XBOX360 has over a 50% failure rate. )

I have a 360 and it doesn't have a 50% failure rate. I've never had a problem with my 360 (although my friend's disk drive broke and he had to send it back, but that's about it).

And MicroSoft will take your xbox back and send you a new one if you still have your 3 year warranty on it and yours breaks.

stolz25 · 08-30-2009, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by ChadLS

I have a 360 and it doesn't have a 50% failure rate. I've never had a problem with my 360 (although my friend's disk drive broke and he had to send it back, but that's about it).

1 out of 2 failing is a 50% failure rate....

ChadLS · 08-31-2009, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by stolz25

1 out of 2 failing is a 50% failure rate....

It was just an example, I have more than one friend with a 360 lol. Probably about a 10% failure rate (which is still atrocious but better than 50%).

HughRuss · 08-31-2009, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by ChadLS

It was just an example, I have more than one friend with a 360 lol. Probably about a 10% failure rate (which is still atrocious but better than 50%).

My sister had a 360, as did her friend. They both failed. Past 50% now.

thatguyoverthere · 09-04-2009, 01:07 AM

Well, we're all right, I guess!

Oh, Just Tell Us the Xbox 360 Failure Rate Already!|Technologizer

Another day, another stab at the Xbox 360’s failure rate.
This time, the estimate comes from Square Trade (PDF), a third-party electronics warranty company. Based on customer reports, the company says Microsoft’s game console has a 23.7 percent chance of dying within two years of purchase. Half the errors reported to Square Trade involved the infamous Red Ring of Death.
Overall, the Xbox 360’s one in four chance of failure makes it far and away the most unreliable console on the market. By comparison, 10 percent of Playstation 3s were defective, and 2.7 percent of Wiis needed repair.
SquareTrade is the same company that in February 2008 said the Xbox 360 has a 16.4 percent failure rate, and we’ve seen other estimaes all over the map. In 2007, GamePro talked to some EB Games and Best Buy employees, who generally estimated that a third of all Xbox 360s had to be sent back for repair. More recently, Game Informer conducted a poll of readers, 54.2 percent of whom said they’ve dealt with an Xbox 360 hardware failure.
The funny thing is, you tend to be skeptical of such high estimates until the Red Ring of Death happens to you. My Xbox 360 kicked the bucket a few weeks ago, and suddenly I started realizing how many friends have gone through the same thing. If someone told me that 99 percent of Xbox 360s were bound to die within 10 years of ownership, I’d be skeptical of the claim, but not overly surprised if it turned out to be true.
Which is why I’d like Microsoft to come clean. Let’s clear the air of all these wildly speculative failure rate estimates and get some precise numbers and facts in order. If I treat my console right, can I expect it to last forever? If not, how long is it before every press of the power button is a crapshoot? And what are the odds that the Xbox 360 will outlast the three-year warranty that comes with every new console purchase?
Of course, I’d be foolish to expect such transparency out of the blue, but I doubt the truth could be much worse than third-party guesstimates and anecdotes. Or is it?

Stylerod · 09-04-2009, 08:38 AM

I have two 360's. One died with the RRoD after about 2 years. It was modded so I couldn't send it back for repair. I tried to repair it myself, the RRoD is gone but now it just locks up after a few minutes.

My other non-modded 360 is almost 2 years old and has troubles with reading the DVD's a lot. You have to close the door and then move it around so that it will read. Frustrating.

I'm pretty sure everyone I know that has had a 360 for longer than a few years has had the RRoD. The poor guy down the street from me has had to return it 3 times for it.

wanna be drummer · 09-09-2009, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by thatguyoverthere

The PS1 & PS2 are the only game consoles I had to buy twice since the first ones failed. Love the PS, but that's not a great record. (though I hear the XBOX360 has over a 50% failure rate. )

yeah but its also the only console worth getting...

stolz25 · 09-09-2009, 11:42 PM

The onion is so topical.

Xbox 360 Least Reliable | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

ChadLS · 09-10-2009, 02:50 PM

What does it matter? Lol

People are still going to buy 360s. In my opinion they have better games than the Playstation's and Wii's. I've had to send one back before too, it's not a big deal. You lose video games for a month, nothing to die over.