My PS3 just died. YLOD. Shit.
 
Super SFIV is on the immediate horizon and I'm completely fucked. Obviously I'm out of warranty and even if I decide to send it to Sony it will take an age to get it back via that route.
 
Other options are to either take it to a local repair shop or attempt to fix it myself. I'm pretty good with this sort of thing but as I don't have the tools necessary to repair it on hand, it would probably end up costing me just as much as taking it to get repaired.
 
But wait, what's that you say? My blog title says "PS3 is dead. Long live the Xbox." Oh yes, I knew I'd forgotten something!! A friend of mine has both a PS3 and 360 and has kindly agreed to lend me his 360 (He wouldn't let me have his PS3, I mean how selfish can you get)
So once I've collected it I will be playing on my (his) 360. Username will be mubress of course. I won't have time to get it until the weekend but come Saturday I will be ONLINE.
 
My only problem now is that I'll have to get SFIV for 360 ( I can't spend a whole week without SF!!) and then Super as well straight after. Fortunately SFIV is cheap now and Super is pretty cheap too so it's all good!
 
Crisis averted. Returning to Defcon 5.

My PS3 just died. YLOD. Shit.
 
Super SFIV is on the immediate horizon and I'm completely fucked. Obviously I'm out of warranty and even if I decide to send it to Sony it will take an age to get it back via that route.
 
Other options are to either take it to a local repair shop or attempt to fix it myself. I'm pretty good with this sort of thing but as I don't have the tools necessary to repair it on hand, it would probably end up costing me just as much as taking it to get repaired.
 
But wait, what's that you say? My blog title says "PS3 is dead. Long live the Xbox." Oh yes, I knew I'd forgotten something!! A friend of mine has both a PS3 and 360 and has kindly agreed to lend me his 360 (He wouldn't let me have his PS3, I mean how selfish can you get)
So once I've collected it I will be playing on my (his) 360. Username will be mubress of course. I won't have time to get it until the weekend but come Saturday I will be ONLINE.
 
My only problem now is that I'll have to get SFIV for 360 ( I can't spend a whole week without SF!!) and then Super as well straight after. Fortunately SFIV is cheap now and Super is pretty cheap too so it's all good!
 
Crisis averted. Returning to Defcon 5.

Long live Xbox LOL how ironic

Nooooooooooooooooooo =(

Cool. See you online.

Okay.

That's a bummer.   :(      Hopefully you wont get a RROD before Tuesday.       :P

Try and find someone that is good with electronics. Sometimes just resetting the the CPU and or GPU will fix it, unless one of those chips is totally fried. 
 
Though it is nice of your friend to lend you his xbox. so at least you CAN game.

" Long live Xbox LOL how ironic "

" @ChristianCastillo said:

" Long live Xbox LOL how ironic "

hahahahahahaha  "

well that does suck...i havent enough money for both versions and xbl sub...
spent £85 on a passport earlier today (85 fucking pound) which destroyed my plans of buying both versions and a stick
 
you ever gonna get your ps3 fixed or replaced?

Does this mean I should remove you from my PSN friends?

" Long live Xbox LOL how ironic "

Game is on son, GAME IS ON.

Guess for the high powered consoles this is the generation of the hardware failure :P

" Long live Xbox LOL how ironic "

" Ah, that really sucks man. And what cruel timing.  Although we can now see how one of the best PS3 players fares against the 360 crowd. "

are you going to play with the xbox controller?

" @ChristianCastillo said:

" Long live Xbox LOL how ironic "

lol, good one! "

I have the same problem in fact I made a blog about it lol, but I am going to buy a new slim instead and get my bc ps3 fixed later

" are you going to play with the xbox controller? "

RROD  is overblown by the internet.

" @ChristianCastillo said:

" Long live Xbox LOL how ironic "

yearh when considdering that the ps3 (fat) had a fail rate of 17% (slim was a lettle less)and the xbox 360 had a fail rate of 52% "

" RROD  is overblown by the internet. "

" RROD  is overblown by the internet. "

" @CL60 said:

" RROD  is overblown by the internet. "

You are joking right? "

" RROD  is overblown by the internet. "

hope you get a RROD

" @EnemaEms said:

" @CL60 said:

" RROD  is overblown by the internet. "

You are joking right? "

No I'm not. My launch 360 ran fine up until like half a year ago. Plus my friends launch 360 still works fine.   Plus even when they do break. You can just send it to MS and they will send you another 360 for free. So it's not as a big deal and everybody makes it out to be. "

" @CL60 said:

" @EnemaEms said:

" @CL60 said:

" RROD  is overblown by the internet. "

You are joking right? "

No I'm not. My launch 360 ran fine up until like half a year ago. Plus my friends launch 360 still works fine.   Plus even when they do break. You can just send it to MS and they will send you another 360 for free. So it's not as a big deal and everybody makes it out to be. "

Just because yours and your friends boxes are fine (and even yours broke) doesn't mean that what, 25% of them have broken? Mine has been fine since I got it, but thats probably thanks to both less use than probably the average Call of Duty owner and the posibility that it might be of the Jasper chipset. Sure it might be a little overblown on a game site where everyone has their console on 24/7, but the problem of RROD is very real. "

This thread was a bad idea.

" RROD  is overblown by the internet. "

If you want I will give you a 360 for a nice turkey sandwich. Honestly I have 3 RROD 360's to spare, and 3 working ones. I could fix the RROD consoles and sell them, but I am lazy ATM and out of thermal compoud 

" hope you get a RROD "

" When will people understand that just because something doesn't happen to them, doesn't mean it's not happening.  "

" @xyzygy: That doesn't mean anything.   When will people understand that just because something doesn't happen to them, doesn't mean it's not happening.  "

" @PresidentOfJellybeans said:

" @ChristianCastillo said:

" Long live Xbox LOL how ironic "

lol, good one! "

Hey now!  The spooky stream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/teamspooky  has been running a 360 or two for four days straight, and still haven't had the RROD.  I really do think MS finally fixed their hardware.  It sure took them long enough, though. "

" @SpaceInsomniac said:

" @PresidentOfJellybeans said:

" @ChristianCastillo said:

" Long live Xbox LOL how ironic "

lol, good one! "

Hey now!  The spooky stream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/teamspooky  has been running a 360 or two for four days straight, and still haven't had the RROD.  I really do think MS finally fixed their hardware.  It sure took them long enough, though. "

All I know is I'm on my fifth xbox 360,  all previous ones dying from the rrod.  I'm not hating on 360's.  I obviously like the 360 a lot, having bought 5 of them.  Haven't had to repurchase a system so many times since the original playstation.  Hopefully the hardware is better now, I could do without buying another one =). "

" @Cube said:

" @xyzygy: That doesn't mean anything.   When will people understand that just because something doesn't happen to them, doesn't mean it's not happening.  "

Because it is overblown?   The newer(and by newer i mean 1-2 years) do not RROD that much regardless of what you and others may think. "

" @trophyhunter said:

" hope you get a RROD "

Your mean :( "

I AM THE KING, LONG LIVE THE KING 
 
@PresidentOfJellybeans: lol, why would you rebuy a console when you can get it repaired, most likely for free from Microsoft. 
 
@CL60: I've repaired my 360 four times, it's really not overblown. Everyone I know has had Xbox failure as well. I love the 360 don't get me wrong, but it's made like ass. The UPS just came and delivered my Xbox 360 a couple seconds ago, and he said this: "You got it back, eh? Hopefully it works good for you this time. I can't tell you how many people have had to send these back, I've seen so many."