The Saga Of The Sony PlayStation 3

As you all know I love Video Games and so I have over the years bought almost every variation of Nintendo and Sony product. I stayed away from Microsoft since the drama of watching my friend have his Xbox 360 sent in for repairs at least 4 or 5 times in a row after buying it.

Anyway, my wonderful PlayStation 3 60gig died last week. I loved my 60gig PlayStation 3 it was the top of the line system from Sony at the time. It had three big things going for it…

1. It was backwards compatible and had hardware emulation of the PlayStation 2 built into the machine.
2. It played BluRay Movies.
3. It had wi-fi built in.

Now the system itself did not die on me but the DVD part of the machine stopped working. If I had known better I would have tried desperately to just get that part fixed in some way. Unfortunately everyone I asked said that if I had done that by sending it into Sony they most likely would just shipped back to me a refurbed 80gig. So using my extended warranty from Best Buy I decided to just get it replaced with a new one.

Now you could say the Best Buy extended warranty stuff is a rip off but in this case they simply took my old system and replaced it with a new top of the line 80gig no questions asked. This alone is pretty dang good service if you ask me for something priced at $400.00.

My problem is, as I have now discovered in doing all this that Sony has changed the PlayStation 3 (all models) for the worse. Even the new top of the line PlayStation 3 80gig no longer has PlayStation 2 “software” emulation. It still plays PlayStation 1 games but my huge stack of well loved PlayStation 2 games… NO DICE! FUCK ME!

Then at the store I had them put my old 60 gig hard drive in the new machine to keep my old game saves. Guess what! I got home and the new PlayStation 3 reformatted the hard drive. Oh well, there goes a couple of years of gaming.

I took the new machine back the next morning hoping desperately to get the old system back. GONE! SHIPPED OUT! So there I was left to go buy a crappy PlayStation 2 to make up for my loss knowing now that my PlayStation 3 60gig that I had loved and crowed about to everyone was a unique Sony product that actually met my every want and need so Sony had to stop making it.

Why does Sony always make the best looking and well built products and then break them making sad stupid mistakes? The Sony VAIO laptops did this when Windows Vista first came out. Sony’s drivers and programs for the sleek pretty laptops caused so many issues and people thought at the time it was Windows fault their systems ran like crap. Nope it was because you were using Sony’s drivers.

Has Sony shot themselves in the foot AGAIN doing this??? Sure thing! I am telling people to keep your old PlayStation 2 until you actually see more than a handful of PlayStation 3 games you have to have. The hard facts are that there are far cheaper BluRay players out there and even a new PlayStation 2 comes with a huge irreplaceable library of cheap and highly addictive games that whips PlayStation 3 hands down.

Without the backwards compatibility Sony now looks just like another company that died a horrible death… Sega! Remember the Dreamcast? I have one of those too. Yeah, it was also the most powerful video game machine built in it’s day with no backwards compatibility and very few games that were worth buying it for and that company stopped making any video game machines all together. Shame on you Sony!

PS… Jason wanted me to tell you all. He had purchased several movies from the PlayStation Online Store. Well it seems Sony does not keep track of what movies you buy (Just the games that we were able to re-download) so all his movies are now toast. Another expensive lesson learned.

Tags: Video Games