MS Journalist Invents PS3 “Yellow Light of Death” Problem

I saw this report on T.V. yesterday, and it loses all reputibillity when they make it into a song.

Console wars are getting retarded.

I saw two fucktards saying the DS has higher quality games than PS3 and 360 put together.

So Microsoft has Red, Sony has Yellow, but what about Nintendo?

>BBC
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There are plenty of perfectly legitimate criticisms that can be made against the PS3, but but faulty hardware is simply not one of them.

The console has its problems, but the thing is darn near indestructible.

I wonder if Artefact just post these kinds of articles just to see how fast how big a troll war will occur.

didnt the guy write an article burning ms as well?

If the PS3 is so good, why aren't you guys playing it now?

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360 fanboys = extremist christian
ps3 fanboys = atheist

You do realise that Watchdog did a similar report on Xbox 360's failing? They aren't completely biassed. In fact a lot of articles on this site are more biassed towards the PS3.

I live in the US, I own both a PS3 and a 360, and both are Japanese. I bought both in mid-2007. My 360 was manufactured in late-2006. My PS3 is a 60gb model, which are apparently the least reliable. My JP-360 got the RRoD about a year ago, MS repaired it for free (took about 1.5 weeks), and it's still under warranty. If my JP-PS3 were to get the YLoD, I seriously doubt Sony would accept it, and even if they did I'd have to pay $150 and I'd lose all my data. I'd much rather get the RRoD again than get the YLoD. I get a little nervous whenever I turn my PS3 on or whenever a PS3 game freezes. By contrast, I'm kinda hoping my JP-360 gets the RRoD again soon, so they'll renew my warranty.

Consoles are like vehicles, if you don't use them correctly they break down, or something happens to them. PS3, Xbox 360 and what not are no different, I am on my First Xbox 360 Elite Console still, and nothing has gone wrong with it but once, the only thing that happened with it was, it got hit by lightning, other than that I had to replace it, same with PS3, its working fine.

Lots of butthurt PS3 fans taking their time to strike back over the YLOD, funny that fixing it is almost EXACTLY THE SAME as the infamous RROD method..well, back then.

Lee is yet another microsoft fanboy. the 360 isn't perfect douchebag, if it was perfect why would you need to make project natal? why would you have a RROD? why would you need to charge for online gaming? And obviously since you're employed by microsoft, your life is currently being paid by them so you are taking their money. If you weren't employed by microsoft then sure you'd have a point, but you don't.

Luckily neither my PS3 or 360 have failed me.

Squaretrade released a PSF no to long ago on console reliability and found that PS3 failure rates are about 10% with the highest being DREs. While the 360's is about 23%. If they were to finally fix the RRoD issues (Big if), this would significantly drop to around 11-12%.

I just love how these threads always degrade into "I have never had that problem, so it doesn't exist!" or "Mines better than yours because that's the one mommy bought me". But I guess the author of these articles likes to start console wars.

Grow the fuck up, kids.

My PS3 is broken and my Xbox works fine.

The irony of Artefact posting a story about personal bias in videogames...just wow.

I have never had any console break down on me...ever.

That is some BS seriously my ps3 that I purchase in November of '06 been through dust, power outage, and spillage, works like a charge, but I do clean it up once every two weeks. Not once had I gotten the "the yellow light of piracy/tampering". As far as that other system not gonna degrade myself here, but I got the the red light of doom about three time on the third I sold it on craigslist for $200 including the games.

Artefact really love japan, he is like michael jackson with an asian skin job.

Sega Saturn ftw!!!!!

There's this lady whom all the gamer guys call "onee-chan", she basically owns a chain of video game retail and rental shops.

The proof that RROD is a bigger problem with YLOD is that she has every single Xbox 360 water-cooled, while every PS3 is stock.

Then again, all the neon lights and dripping green water sort of make the Xbox 360 look cooler, in a way.

"Firstly, the 360 came out and is as close to perfect as you can get."

So why didn't launch Xboxs have HDMI?

Jesus Christ, If the articles were written without any bias in it, there would probably be 25% less Console war crap (including this post) flooding almost every single console related post.

Yeah that guy is stupid, read it over at neogaf and...i was thinking to myself, wtf is going on? lol

"yellow Light of Death" just doesn't seem as cool as the "Red Ring of Death". If my system is going to crap out, I want it to sound cool. Ergo, I'll go with the XBox 360.

The 360's architecture design is "as close to perfect as anyone could get", the manufacturing process (especially the lead-free solding policy) isn't.

Either way, it's still a much better videogame system than Sony's Blu-ray player.

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My Ps3 AND 360 are both fucked up. only systems still surviving is my Wii...

I like the 360 3-strikes-and-you-get-a-new-console warranty. On the chance its such a bodgie machine that it fails 3 times, they just send you a new one. Mine is just on strike 1 atm.

You never really hear much about the PS2 sales figures being propped up by people buying replacement consoles. No one really believes that its new people buying PS2s all the time, do they?

Damn no slander please...Even the god's know what's truly the best when it comes to hardware stats.. There's no need for things such as online services to be attached when it comes to judging the hardware...
Come on Microsoft..Just copy sony and you'll get your fucking equality.

the more complex the console(s) the more that something can go wrong rough example Nintendo/super Nintendo/genesis and if it did not work you blow on the cartridge or hit the console i have all three and they all still work minus games with saving features as battery died

this is stupid

dude fuck, fuck xbox red ringed 3 times now...... no more cooking..... it IS NOT PERFECT.

MS Journalist getting desperate, they also became xbot fanboy like a 5 year old child

I'm gonna be extremely sincere now, and I really don't want to anger no one, and I'll say this one time only:

I really like Sankaku, it's the only irreplaceable blog on my blog list. It's content is unique, and a real break from reading tons of boring stuff everyday.

But for sometime now, for some reason, the bias against Microsoft, XBox 360 and other Microsoft related products has become somewhat of a crusade here.

I chose to completely ignore ALL posts that are related to Microsoft, specially when it comes to XBox 360.

There's been direct attacks, indirect attacks, posts blaming Microsoft for this or that, posts saying how PS3 is better than Microsoft, extremely shady statistics pointing out how XBox 360 is an awful console, and now even some supposed "Microsoft Journalist", once again pointing out those shady statistics, and once again with bias against Microsoft.

Now, I'm all for the loose posts we have on Sankaku, but I hate trolling and fanboyism.
There is an essencial difference on posts like this one from all others, making lowblow accusations where the acused can't even defend themselves.

And I really fear for the day Sankaku starts relying more on unnecessary posts like this one than other stuff to get attention.

Please, don't go that way.

And let me say this too: I don't have any of the latest gen consoles, and if I decided to buy one today, it would be a Playstation 3.

But I'm really fucking tired of image boards, forums and other websites that feeds fanboys and trolls on a daily basis. And I really don't need another one.

For the sake of the readers, for the sake of Sankaku, and for the sake of whatever you are trying to do here, PLEASE, stop the Microsoft bashing campaign. No one profits from it. It'll only feed stupid haters, make Microsoft fanboys hate Sankaku, and make people who are neutral sad for what Sankaku has become.

I'm shure all commenters worth keeping will be grateful.

Of course Artefact and all other Sankaku writters has all the right to keep this campaign going on, it's their blog, and I have no right to decide what you'll be writting about. But it really makes me disappointed everytime I have to read stuff like this. It's journalism at it's worst (even considering this is a blog, not official news), which I'm frankly tired from reading in tons of different vehicles.

This is the last time I'll be commenting on a Microsoft bashing post, and I won't read any replies for obvious reasons.

Thanks for listening.

Face it Sony fanboys, your stupid PS3 is just as easy to break as the shitty Xbox 360. The only reason it doesn't crap out as quick is because you don't have any games to play on it.

My PS3 broke, and sony can go fuck itself asking for $315 to fix it.

If MS's strongest console opponents are PSP and the Wii, i wonder what "*Colour* + *Sign* + of Death" they're going to come up instead..

TO the pose above me?xbobx fanboys should i call?we don't have much game?u are retard u didnt do any research at all on ps3.What do u have in xbobx gay master chief maybe his face is an alien when he take off? or gay man war? what else.U guys console fail rate is the most higest dont forget that and u lousy piece of shit cant even handle FF13 need 3 disc what s shame lousy machine deserve 3 disc PS1 style bitch.Do some reaearch be4 u talk retard mind ass

Rifinite do some research be4 u talk here retard,no games to play i'm wondering the same thing for xbox.Play as gay masterchief? never show his face? or some game called gears of gay? u guys never bored with playing those game? u are retard do some research be4 u talk u guys RROD failure rate is the higest u dont have the place to speak sony fail rate.Look at urself in the mirror be4 u talk retard fuk.

FACT:
PS3 WIN why? because ff13 need 3 disc for 360 and ps3 just need 1.

GAY BOX CANNOT SUPPORT DUAL LANGUAGE FAILX100000

i think MS should change the name to misfunction box instead of 360.

Another fact PS3 have been selling like hotcakes now.

if u said 360 sells better it is because it lauch out earlier than ps3 and the fail rate is too godly thats why ppl keep buying new one.

As a PS3 owner who has owned and been through the "perfection" of an XBOX360, I'd be outraged, if only I could understand what the bullocks this limey is attempting and failing miserably to convey. And WTF is a yellow light of death? I've never even heard of such a thing until this article. If that the name this guy just invented to cover any and all potential problems a PS3 could ever have? This guy falls into that Jack Thompson pool of fail. He needs to check his facts first, then check his biased ass at the door second, with suicide for the greater good in a close third.

The topic made me L----o-----L in my pants....

BBC has always been biased, partial, and unprofessional in everything it does.

One of the most pathetic situations of console history.

A 2005 xbox 360 is a time bomb.

They're all going to explode and rrod eventually.

This thread will turn into another worthless fanboy war. I dunno why you idiots even bother arguing over it.

Arguing over the internet is pointless, even if you win you're still retarded.

I always preferred "arguing on the internet is like the special olympics..."

And really, what more do you need, besides:
Sony warns the BBC that it is prepared to take “all necessary steps” to protect its brand from slanderous reporting. *The BBC has yet to issue a defence.*

Take your time, guys. Make it DAZZLING.

"That’s a whole rant in itself. Suffice to say, one console offers a sublime, beautiful, wondrous, joyful online experience, while the other is guff."

the latter being free, at least.
also, wow! a 360 isn't but a beta-version consolle, where you buy at full price a game that will be later released with more characters, more patches, more downloadable packs, extras, moves, attacks, dialogues! a must buy indeed!

I've never felt so betrayed in my life as a gamer like it just happened with ToV. Oh, and ninja gaiden. Oh, and star ocean 4. Oh wait, all the previous exclusives aren't that anymore..

that there is the "yellow light of piracy/tampering", not "death"... this is just some 360 fag starting a flame for the ps3 tards