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I am just interested to hear about anyone who has had any problems with their playstation or knows anyone that has.
I got my PS2 on launch day after putting a deposit down in march and then saving every spare penny to enable me to pay it off outright with a couple of games.
After playing my machine for a total of 3 weeks the thing has DIED!!!! when say it has died what I mean is that everytime you turn the machine on it asks you to check the language and date/time again, the picture is all fussy with the colour distorted, and if that wasn't enough the CD rom has died as well. If you exject the draw instead of smoothly sliding out the whole thing now shoots out like a catapult along with what sounds like the ejector motor constantly tunring causing a high pitched wine.
Ok, so what are Sony going to do about it?? Well they have agreed to exchange the console, but this will not be until the 22/12/00, does anyone else feel that this is a ridiculous time scale seeing as I have spent close to £500 and they can't even get me a new playstation within a couple of days. Lets compate this with a company I work for, the company in question is Virgin Mobile, now if you had a faulty mobile phone then we would have an exchange done on that the next day, regardless of if its the cheap model or an expensive model via a courier (Sony also use a courier)
I got my PS2 on launch day after putting a deposit down in march and then saving every spare penny to enable me to pay it off outright with a couple of games.
After playing my machine for a total of 3 weeks the thing has DIED!!!! when say it has died what I mean is that everytime you turn the machine on it asks you to check the language and date/time again, the picture is all fussy with the colour distorted, and if that wasn't enough the CD rom has died as well. If you exject the draw instead of smoothly sliding out the whole thing now shoots out like a catapult along with what sounds like the ejector motor constantly tunring causing a high pitched wine.
Ok, so what are Sony going to do about it?? Well they have agreed to exchange the console, but this will not be until the 22/12/00, does anyone else feel that this is a ridiculous time scale seeing as I have spent close to £500 and they can't even get me a new playstation within a couple of days. Lets compate this with a company I work for, the company in question is Virgin Mobile, now if you had a faulty mobile phone then we would have an exchange done on that the next day, regardless of if its the cheap model or an expensive model via a courier (Sony also use a courier)
I am just interested to hear about anyone who has had any problems with their playstation or knows anyone that has.
I got my PS2 on launch day after putting a deposit down in march and then saving every spare penny to enable me to pay it off outright with a couple of games.
After playing my machine for a total of 3 weeks the thing has DIED!!!! when say it has died what I mean is that everytime you turn the machine on it asks you to check the language and date/time again, the picture is all fussy with the colour distorted, and if that wasn't enough the CD rom has died as well. If you exject the draw instead of smoothly sliding out the whole thing now shoots out like a catapult along with what sounds like the ejector motor constantly tunring causing a high pitched wine.
Ok, so what are Sony going to do about it?? Well they have agreed to exchange the console, but this will not be until the 22/12/00, does anyone else feel that this is a ridiculous time scale seeing as I have spent close to £500 and they can't even get me a new playstation within a couple of days. Lets compate this with a company I work for, the company in question is Virgin Mobile, now if you had a faulty mobile phone then we would have an exchange done on that the next day, regardless of if its the cheap model or an expensive model via a courier (Sony also use a courier)
I got my PS2 on launch day after putting a deposit down in march and then saving every spare penny to enable me to pay it off outright with a couple of games.
After playing my machine for a total of 3 weeks the thing has DIED!!!! when say it has died what I mean is that everytime you turn the machine on it asks you to check the language and date/time again, the picture is all fussy with the colour distorted, and if that wasn't enough the CD rom has died as well. If you exject the draw instead of smoothly sliding out the whole thing now shoots out like a catapult along with what sounds like the ejector motor constantly tunring causing a high pitched wine.
Ok, so what are Sony going to do about it?? Well they have agreed to exchange the console, but this will not be until the 22/12/00, does anyone else feel that this is a ridiculous time scale seeing as I have spent close to £500 and they can't even get me a new playstation within a couple of days. Lets compate this with a company I work for, the company in question is Virgin Mobile, now if you had a faulty mobile phone then we would have an exchange done on that the next day, regardless of if its the cheap model or an expensive model via a courier (Sony also use a courier)
Aha, no swearing in this forum mate.
And people have had alot of trouble with their PS2's take alook around.
And people have had alot of trouble with their PS2's take alook around.
There have been problems, but there are far more very satisfied owners.
Pre-ordering in March, and paying nearly £500, suggests an imported unit. Is this true, or is the £500 including games etc... and the March pre-order form an unofficial one?
Well i'm now onto my THIRD PS2. First one had a faulty DVD Drive. Got a replacement after two weeks! The second was was ALSO!! faulty and worse than the first one. It also had a faulty drive but came with a fualty chipset aswell for good measure. I'm now getting a third one sent to me for the 8th of Jan. I hope this will be third time lucky because this is getting absolutely ridiculous!
I pre-ordered mine Feb 26th which was the day after SR started taking pre-orders. So pre-ordering in March would'nt get you an imported one. The 500 quid TWIN spent would be with games as well as I spent 490 quid with a extra controller , memory card and 4 games. With all these problems Sony better do something as people might give up on the console and not bother about it. I understand that Sony cant get the consoles out to replace broken ones as with not many consoles aviable its hard to supply what you havent got.
This is where the mystery question is. Sony do not have any Consoles that they can forward onto Pre-Order Customers. And then all of a sudden, they have an Unlimited Supply to send to customers with faulty Consoles, and then with the fact there was a Batch of PS2's in a select few Tesco Stores. So if Sony can send these consoles here, there, and everywhere, then why can't they continue with going through the Pre-Order customers. Now I already got my Console on Launch day, I am just thinking af it from all your points of view!!!