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NES had the "blowing the cartridge" thing.
My launch PS1 had to be played upside down after Resident Evil 1 came out and somehow the laser went crazy. This seemed pretty widespread, but never really addressed by Sony.
My launch PS2 stopped playing CD-based games, which was also a seemingly widespread problem that never really got addressed.
My launch PS3 still works, but I replaced it recently just in case. I did buy it from costco at launch (for a lot of money) but I'm not sure I'm going to return it when it eventually breaks, since that seems really skeevy.

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I just got that email. I laughed :)

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So I went ahead and bought a PS3. Now I just need some games. Question about that. Do PS3 games come on Blu-ray discs? Or I guess more specifically, do they have the protective scratch-resistant coating that Blu-ray discs have? Obviously I'm looking into buying games on the secondary market, and I don't want to stress too much about whether a game I buy is going to be in poor condition or not.

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Yes, PS3 games come on Blu-ray discs. Yes, it has the scratch-resistant coating.

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Nice, thanks.

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You will be fine with used games.

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Don't know if you have a Blockbuster near you, but they have a B1G1 free on all games $14.99 and under right now. Might be worth it to pick up some older games very cheap.

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Nice, I'll check it out. Any games that might be in that price point that are worth a purchase?

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Borderlands is 14.99 which is well worth the price but the GOTY is only 17.99 used at gamestop so i wouldn't suggest getting it at BB unless it's part of the b1g1. Bioshock 2 is 10 bucks and is well worth it also.

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I wouldn't buy a used GOTY version of Borderlands unless you're sure that it's the version with the DLC on disc. The early versions just had DLC vouchers, which would be no good if someone already used them.

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Just have to be diligent and look at the front of the case, it will say if it's a voucher or disc.

Good



Bad



Just make sure it doesn't say voucher on the front and you are good.

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Not neccessarily, because they don't keep the games in the boxes. You also have to rely on the gamestop employee to give you the correct disc when he gets it out of the drawer.

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I wanna complain about my dead PS3 some more.

If my PS2 ever died, my game saves were still fine and dandy on the save-card. But now, I'm pretty much screwed because you can't do anything with a dead PS3 and it's hard-drive is fucking encrypted. Seriously, what a retarded step backwards for a next-gen system. Who thinks of these "innovations"?

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eh I back mine up on either a USB stick or a flash card that I have inserted into the Nyko Slim Media hub. Now encrypted saves on the other hand....:mad:

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That's a lot of busy-work to keep backing up your saves each time you play a game, just in case your PS3 goes belly up. And yeah, there's plenty of games you can't even do that with. Thank God the 360 has that detachable hard-drive or I would've been exponentially more fucked when that red-ringed.

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I understand your frustration, but remember that this time the storage medium can contain things they definitely don't want transferred, like games and movies. It would be nice if they had separated the drive into two partitions, one encrypted for their software and the other open for saves.

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"They"? Fuck them! I'm their customer here who's paid good money for a bunch of their shit. I'm not trying to cheat or steal anything from anyone. And yet I'm the one getting screwed because of the measures they've put in place to prevent such things, which the thieves circumvent anyways...

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You don't, but there are others that do. Regardless of how honest you are don't take it out on them because they want to protect their ip. You should be venting your rage against the hackers and fucking thieves that caused them to have to do this in the first place.

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Well, regardless, they should offer some sort of deal where I can send my old hard-drive with my new PS3 to Sony, and for a nominal fee, have them transfer the contents over.

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You can have full games and videos on the xbox hard drive as well, and those protected things just won't work if its hooked up to another system.

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:rolleyes: DRM doesn't require hard drive encryption.

It's really inexcusable. Somehow Microsoft figured out a way to protect their content and make the hard drives portable. Are they behind the curve?

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Looks like we may actually be getting close with the store returning. On my way to going to Netflix I noticed there are newer movies being displayed on the Playstation store panel under video.

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^ it was still doing that last month, and still no store.

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When the store do get back you can expect to see servers overload by everyone trying to download the free games. I probably should waited out for a couple of days for me to download my free games. I be getting Wipeout HD and Super Stardust HD.

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Me too since I have the other games that they are offering.