original launch day ps3

whomitconcerns

Ive had mine since day 1 pretty much...€628 as far as memory serves..Anyway it seems everyone has had problems with theirs over the years..bar an issue 3 days after I got it, they replaced unit on spot, I have never had a problem..

Sure its a bit loud sometimes and you could heat a room with it sometimes...but never any other issues.

Is there anyone else still on it?

adamski8

well you arent, you just admitted you had to get it replaced??!

whomitconcerns

yeh Touche...but 3 days after launch day may have been less..a disc jammed in mechanism so they just replaced game and ps3...but we can choose to look at it that way..its still on the go many many years without problem..

Tallon

I cannot understand people that are proud of launch day consoles

Everytime I mention PS3 to a friend, he replies with "I still have the launch day one"

Who fúcking cares?

Mine is smaller, lighter and quiter than yours, and it does the same fecking thing, aside from playing 5 PS2 games that I have 3 PS2's for anyway...

He's on his 3rd hard drive too...

whomitconcerns

im not necessarily proud of it...just curious as to the lifespan of them...everyone else i know with one has either had to replace it or just has it dead at home....

As you say they essentially all do the same thing..i mean i got 4 usb ports..not that I have ever needed all 4 at same time....

Basically I am trying to decide to either invest in a new HDD and install it or to just hang back and buy a new one if truth be told..so was curious if these are regularly lasting long time..or am i just flukey..

Tallon

whomitconcerns wrote: »

im not necessarily proud of it...just curious as to the lifespan of them...everyone else i know with one has either had to replace it or just has it dead at home....

As you say they essentially all do the same thing..i mean i got 4 usb ports..not that I have ever needed all 4 at same time....

Basically I am trying to decide to either invest in a new HDD and install it or to just hang back and buy a new one if truth be told..so was curious if these are regularly lasting long time..or am i just flukey..

Sure buy a new HDD, then when it eventually fails, put it in your new one

robfowler78

For what its worth I still have mine no bother with it works like it always did. Only advantage of the original is that I got about a years ps3 gaming more than those that waited for the slimmer, cheaper models to arrive.

phill106

Still have mine, working perfectly. I recently popped in a larger harddrive is all, old one was still fine though!

djsim101

Yep, I have mine as well. Got it on launch day also It was around 600 quid mark also, got in hmv. A lot of money tbh.........Had to replace the blu ray drive, last year.

My good old Atari 2600 from 1978 is still kicking ass..:D

whomitconcerns

never had an atari 2600, but i remember playing lots and another friend had the 7800..All from uh-tar-eee!

whomitconcerns

Tallon wrote: »

Sure buy a new HDD, then when it eventually fails, put it in your new one

Well you see that makes sense..but the new model launching soon has a 500gb model..but I guess i can put the ps3 2.5" into the pc anyway if i don't need in that...

JohnMarston

i have an 80gb fat ps3 i bought in 2008, still going strong.

kristok 2

JohnMarston wrote: »

i have an 80gb fat ps3 i bought in 2008, still going strong.

I've my us launch ps3 still going strong although admittedly I only really started playing it last year when I got playstation plus up until then my various 360s got most attention

Myrddin

Tallon wrote: »

I cannot understand people that are proud of launch day consoles

Everytime I mention PS3 to a friend, he replies with "I still have the launch day one"

Who fúcking cares?

Mine is smaller, lighter and quiter than yours, and it does the same fecking thing, aside from playing 5 PS2 games that I have 3 PS2's for anyway...

He's on his 3rd hard drive too...

Its a rare thing because the build quality of the PS3 & 360 is such utter rubbish, that to have an original one is a bit of a rarity.

Sure slims are smaller, lighter & quieter...but it doesn't stop them failing either.

The launch day PS3 is regarded as the best because it has all the extra ports, the PS2 compatibility, & the Phats in general havee a way better aesthetic than anything that came after them

Tallon

In your opinion...

Myrddin

Tallon wrote: »

In your opinion...

The only thing thats opinion in my post is the part about aesthetics. I don't know many people who consider the Slim better looking than the original Phats.

Anyway, a 'this type of PS3 is better than that' discussion is way outta my interest range, I really couldn't care less.

Tallon

The slim is way nicer. The phat is huge looking

NUTZZ

Tallon wrote: »

The slim is way nicer. The phat is huge looking

Now now girls....they 'all' have lovely bottoms!



I have a launch day PS3 by the way! :P

Tallon

NUTZZ wrote: »

Now now girls....they 'all' have lovely bottoms!



I have a launch day PS3 by the way! :P

hahaha. Genius, that saying will end so many arguments :P

bad2dabone

my launch day ps3 died about 3 weeks ago.

RIP good buddy, no pain where you are now old friend.

Myrddin

Regardless of which model is nicer etc, I think the failure rate for modern consoles is shocking. The way people casually say "I got for years out of mine before it failed" & seem proud of it baffles me, & seems to have become acceptable for people. Sad times, now, off to play my near thirty year old Vectrex....

Washington Irving

Mine crapped out August 2011. After I got a new one I started fiddling about with the original to see if I could get it working and somehow it did. Been perfect ever since!

grimm2005

Who cares what it looks like tbh, big or small, in the end of the day it sits under your TV, its not something you need to carry around with you. Don't really get this idea of "upgrading" to new models of a console. They aren't PCs, they're not gonna play games any better then the previous models.

What I find distressing is that it's pretty much expected that you're going to have to "upgrade" at some point due to hardware failures. The build quality in consoles and really electronics in general is so poor these days compared to what they used to be but then thats a discussion for another thread.

adox

Mines still working fine, although its rarely used for gaming now.
Blu-rays and Netflix are what its used for.