Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s

Zarrot writes "If Sony's recent 3.00 PS3 firmware update bricked your console, you may now have legal recourse thanks to a class action suit against Sony. The complaint alleges that thousands of users (PDF) were affected by the update, and in some cases the PS3 hardware itself was damaged. It continues, 'For owners who sustained hardware damage from the Sony-required update, Sony is charging a $150 repair fee per unit. Sony, responding to the numerous complaints about the unacceptable effects of the defective update, released a further, optional update that it claimed "improves system stability" — yet performance problems continued, and the new update did nothing to remedy the systems of users who sustained hardware damage."'"

Comments

I ran out of gas and now my car is bricked!

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

When it doesn't do what it's supposed to do (or stops doing what it's supposed to do), yeah, that's bricked.

No. It's bricked when there is no hope at all at making it playable again. If it can execute code, it's not bricked.

Honestly dude, It's bad enough the sensationalist media cannot use the term correctly.