PS2's and DRE's .. a sign of things to come?
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:00 am
Earlier while browsing the PS2 board on a popular game site, I was suprised to see more than half the posts there were of people complaining their PS2 freezes or gets DRE's. I know what you're going to say..not many people post on a board like that unless they a problem with their PS2.
Well, I'm sure there are lots of PS2 owners out there who's PS2's are dying and they don't even know it. When you go to trade in the system to Gamestop or EBGames, they test the different kinds of PS2 media on it -- CD based games, single and double layer DVD games. I'm sure if a lot more PS2 owners tried out these different kinds of games, they'd be unpleasantly suprised. My PS2 sounds like a lawnmower playing CD games, and it's the last revision of the fat PS2..I barely ever played anything on it, too.
The bigger shame in all of this is that Sony won't take care of this problem and actually charges us to have their hardware faults fixed. Sure, Sony and Microsoft have limited warranties, though. Heavy emphasis on the word limited -- who's PS2 or X-Box is going to break within 90 days? If they're that concerned about lemons, why doesn't Sony address the real lemons here.. the majority of PS2 owners who get DRE's up the kazoo and game freezes, and can't even play the game they just wasted money renting/buying.
It took them about 2-3 years(to be fair, I'd say at least 2) to work out all DRE kinks with PS2 models. DVD was new technology when the PS2 hit stores and presumably that's why the hardware sucked, right? So this brings me to my final thought..is it going to take that long for blu-ray perfection with the PS3?
Wasting my money to have the blu-ray drive give two years later really scares me to the point where I've been considering avoiding the whole thing lately and putting all my money aside for a Revolution.
Well, I'm sure there are lots of PS2 owners out there who's PS2's are dying and they don't even know it. When you go to trade in the system to Gamestop or EBGames, they test the different kinds of PS2 media on it -- CD based games, single and double layer DVD games. I'm sure if a lot more PS2 owners tried out these different kinds of games, they'd be unpleasantly suprised. My PS2 sounds like a lawnmower playing CD games, and it's the last revision of the fat PS2..I barely ever played anything on it, too.
The bigger shame in all of this is that Sony won't take care of this problem and actually charges us to have their hardware faults fixed. Sure, Sony and Microsoft have limited warranties, though. Heavy emphasis on the word limited -- who's PS2 or X-Box is going to break within 90 days? If they're that concerned about lemons, why doesn't Sony address the real lemons here.. the majority of PS2 owners who get DRE's up the kazoo and game freezes, and can't even play the game they just wasted money renting/buying.
It took them about 2-3 years(to be fair, I'd say at least 2) to work out all DRE kinks with PS2 models. DVD was new technology when the PS2 hit stores and presumably that's why the hardware sucked, right? So this brings me to my final thought..is it going to take that long for blu-ray perfection with the PS3?
Wasting my money to have the blu-ray drive give two years later really scares me to the point where I've been considering avoiding the whole thing lately and putting all my money aside for a Revolution.