Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 7, 2009 @05:41AM from the sony's-pr-department-must-be-pleased dept.

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."'"

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Re:XCP on steroids! by xmundt · 2009-10-07 06:25 · Score: 1, Troll

Greetings and Salutations....
I tend to agree about Sony....they used to be good, but, today? too many questionable decisions.
On the other hand, the update DID increase the stability of the units. After all, what is more stabile than a brick?
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dave mundt

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PS3 Giving a Brick a bad name... by DarthVain · 2009-10-07 06:52 · Score: 1, Troll

Bricks are useful. You can build a house, a fire place, they are strong, good insulators, etc...
A PS3 after crappy hardware destroying update is useless, except for giving toxins to some poor asshole in a 3rd world country to try an recycle it.