obsolete_power Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Well just as the title suggests, I was at best buy last night and decided to give the PS3 a go, just for the sake of doing so. They had NBA 2007 and Motor Storm which I know isn't officially out yet. I believe they were on a demo disc or something. Well first of all, Motor Storm had pretty bad framerate but I guess it is to be expected of a demo or beta, I am not exactly sure which it was. The game had some gorgeous graphics I must admit and the SIXAXIS controller worked okay although it was pretty difficult to control the car using the motion sensing capability. Next I tried NBA 2007 which took me about 10 mins to figure out since my buddy and I kept jumping up when the referee served the ball but it ended up falling back down. I will score that to our inexperience and not towards anything else. Now the negatives of the PS3....well there was just one, that I thought was enough. Halfway through our playing, it froze up and not instantly, it started getting very choppy and eventually completely stalled. We called over a sales associate and he rebooted and told us that it has been happening frequently. About 5 mins later the same thing took place. Now not only did it freeze but it also displayed a message shortly after saying the disc cannot be recognized or something like that. My only regret is that I left my phone at home so there was no way to snap some pics to prove this. Honestly though, I still have hopes that the PS3 will get better and hopefully Sony will / has fixed some of these issues that people are complaining about with the console. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Star Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 I was playing a PS3 at gamespot yesterday and nothing like that happened to me...I was playing NBA 2K7. Plus there might have been something wrong with the disk...you never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugi Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 someone porlly ramed into the shelf or whatever the ps3 was in hard wile the disc was spinning and the disc porlly moved and got a scratch.... porlly more disc related not ps3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suyashs Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 It's probably an issue with the display case not being properly ventilated, this is an even bigger issue at incompetent retailers like Wal-Mart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macrosslover Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 all consoles lock up. i've played the ps3 for long periods with no problems and i've played it where it's locked mid demo. same with the 360, while the demo unit itself is an original 360, it still locks up occassionaly. you can't really judge a system too much just by it's demo unit because the firmware rarely gets updated on them like they do on home units. plus at least the ps3 has a demo unit out unlike other systems i'm still waiting for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberkiller Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 At gamestop the other day we played 360, ps3 and wii. Must say when we first walked into the store my g/f and I were like what the heck is that loud noise. the PS3 sounded like a jet engine throughout the entire store. Hopefully its not that loud when you get it home, however the wii didnt make a sound and the 360 just had a low hum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k22 Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 i doubt the demos are on optical disk, probably on the hard disk since there would be better load times, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ienhz Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 I was watching someone play PS3 at ebgames and the thing froze too lol. I tried it myself at BestBuy and Motorstorm had some really nice graphics on that Sony lcd. Good move on Sony's part cause the game really makes the PS3 LOOK better than the 360's on display. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TokyoKiller Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 obsolete, the same thing happen to me when I went to EB Games at Sherway Gardens, I was playing NBA 07 with a buddy (VS) and the game froze at the 4th quarter 2 times. I must say though I love that game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windam Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 1/3 PS3s didn't work in different places either.. only best buy and gamestop worked, circuit city.. bleh.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidSapphire Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 I hasn't been looking to good for PS3 lately. Go 360! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfunk4life Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 the PS3 would be on for over 16 hours a day. so its bound to happen console cant go on all day long.(i killed my dreamcast 16 hours a day for one month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ji@nBing Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 I've seen a couple freeze. They had to unplug them to get them going again. Resetting doesn't work!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlusher Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 As one says, it probably isnt vented properly. At most common ps3 display stations, the system you see is not real, the REAL system is under the display system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reactionary007 Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 i went up to the ps3 at gamestop here in fond du lac to try it out and it was already frozen... car in mid-air - just totally froze up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billthy Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 i work at best buy and during my shift it freezes about 4 - 6 times. The GM said just to keep it frozen because he sick of it freezing haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconboy Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 oh nooooes! the ps3 freezes! it sucks! and sony should DIE! .... is that what you haters want to hear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanley porkchop Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Everyone PS3 display I've seen (GameStop, Walmart, and Best Buy) has been frozen more than once (every time I go Christmas shopping I hear someone else complain about it). There was actually a guy trying to play it at Walmart who started laughing because the whole thing froze right after he turned it on. BUT! I have a friend who owns one and has never had any problems. In fact, he kinda likes it. So take that as you will. Bad ventilation on the displays? Or maybe my friend's PS3 is an exception? Who knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AionXn_ Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 played PS3 at futureshop ..played that racing game and it was laggy but looked so real! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdverseDeviant Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 most places have bad ventilation. they shove it in a small corner in a sealed cage. yall just wanna make it seems like its a ps3 fault. walmarts the worst. the slimline ps2 at walmart over here froze all the time and who has a freezing ps2 at home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+vlsi0n Subscriber¹ Posted December 23, 2006 Subscriber¹ Share Posted December 23, 2006 oh nooooes! the ps3 freezes! it sucks! and sony should DIE! .... is that what you haters want to hear? no.. but obviously it's something you wanted to get off your chest.. :blink: but looks like the ps3 is having some freezing problems too :/. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsolete_power Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share Posted December 23, 2006 Heh I am definitely not hating the PS3. The hardware components are very advanced and there are bound to be some problems. Especially since Blu-Ray is a brand new technology. Yes it is quite expensive but this is why it isn't for everyone. Yes it has problems but unless these problems are caused by faulty manufacturing / bad components (hardware faults) it isn't anything that Sony can't fix with a simple update to the system. Again, iconboy, no one here is hating the PS3 or at least they aren't showing any signs. I just wanted to talk about my experience with it. Now it might be an isolated incident and it is true about the fake system that you can see. The real one is accessed through the back of the booth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted December 23, 2006 Veteran Share Posted December 23, 2006 Hard to judge based on that kind of experience. As I said before, I had the Wii at GameStop lock up on me just in the system menu before I bought mine. They actually had to unplug the kiosk and plug it back in to get it working again. And while that actually did happen to mine at home once - at least it didn't happen during a game, so it didn't really bother me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detroit Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 3 times played, 3 times seen, 2 dif stores, ps3 freezes all the time :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Star Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Bad ventilation at those stores then. The gamespot that I played the PS3 at had it almost next to the door. The bestbuy I went to had one under the air...It was tight.:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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