Quote Originally Posted by Cloud121 View Post
Bah. Very jealous. I don't even know how my 20GB YLODed back in September 2010, as I always took the utmost care of it. I blame Resident Evil Gold. I put that in my console to check out the new content, and my PS3 spit it out, then yellow lighted. It's as if it was telling me "Get that shit out of me! I'm calling it quits!" Yeah, I really hated Resident Evil 5 too.

I'm thinking the thermostat got messed up the first time I got it repaired. But it didn't start acting up until around 6 months later or so...

That does it, I'm hooking the damn thing back up. Let's see what happens.
I know that we've been over this before, but for those who are still hanging on to outdated information from the early days where Sony stopped manufacturing backwards-compatible PS3s and the guarantee was not available I'll share again-

SONY DOES service/repair all makes/models and all variations of backwards compatible units and they presently guarantee that you'll get the same type back that you send in, even if they need to fully replace it with a new/refurb system.

No, under normal circumstances they won't transfer your HDD data during a repair, so there's a possibility of lost data, but - you can direct transfer from PS3 to PS3 using the built-in HDD transfer tool with an Ethernet cable if your unit is functional/not YLOD ...

So, Cloud, if your 20 GB PS3 is working post-"repair" (which I assume was somebody offering some type of unlicensed work) and you DO get a slim PS3 for general everyday PS3 usage, transfer all your stuff via the HDD transfer tool to the Slim, send the 20GB back to Sony for a full service repair (which will run you about $100 or so + shipping, worth it IMO to save/restore a BC unit) and when you get the unit back transfer the data BACK to the 20GB using the tool.

I know I know, it's not cheap, but it's a means to an end where you (or anybody else with that problem) will have as close to a factory fresh BC PS3 as is possible.

As far as the question of whether or not PS3 is worth it at this point? The software library is great IMO and while there's a very large parity with brick/mortar releases between PS3 and 360 I'm shocked people in this community are under-selling what is available on the PSN.

From PSOne games to Minis, to imports, to classic remakes, theres a metric ton of stuff on there that should appeal to the classic game enthusiast, and with PLUS you get access to a lot of that content for "free" (yes yes semantics) on a weekly basis.