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A class-action lawsuit in California charges that the Sony has misrepresented the PlayStation 2 by claiming that it also plays DVDs. The suit charges that many units stop reading DVDs after only a few months of use. Gee, that sounds just like what our readers have been saying. By the way, the problems with Playstation 2 aren't all that new. Playstation 1 wasn't exactly perfect either.

Annissa of Homestead, FL January 25, 2009

Annissa of Homestead FL (01/25/09)
i had my game system for not even a month and i went to play it one day and it didnt work. so i called the playstation people,and they sent ,me a box to send to them so i sent my game and it took 8 days and when i got it back it was not fixed tehy said it was the warranty seal,but when we fixed it everything was on there. and when we got it back the side piece to the hardrive was missing and the screw to hold it and the thing where the warranty seal was.and now they say we have to pay 150.00 to get it fixed but were not paying because they didnt want to do there job. if we have to we will sue sony for everything they have.please help us. this will be 500.00 gone to waste.

they did not fix the game so now i have nothing to play and i have to pay 150.00 to get it fixed.

Omair of Mississauga, ON January 23, 2009

Omair of Mississauga ON (01/23/09)
My Playstation 3 died due to hardware failure. Looking around many people are having this same problem and is occuring right after the one year warantee is expired. I bought mine July 2007 and it broke January 2009. The repair cost is an astronomical 170 CAD.

Denis of Oconomowoc, WI January 23, 2009

Denis of Oconomowoc WI (01/23/09)
Sony did not replace my playstation 3 free of charge after I faced a very broad issue known as YloD which doesn't let you turn the ps3 on. This issue usually happens 1 year after the warranty expires. In Europe Sony will replace the PS3 even when out of warranty, but the same is not happening here in US.

I feel that the 600 I paid for the PS3 should be enough to assure the machine would last more than 2 years. Now I have to pay Sony another 150 to get it fixed.

Kyle of Lexington, KY January 23, 2009

Kyle of Lexington KY (01/23/09)
I received a PS3 as a xmas present in Dec '06 and I received the YLOD in Jan '09 (just 2 years after it was given to me). I would classify myself as a PS3 fanboy, but with how Sony is fixing the YLOD problem is ridiculous. PS3 is making their financial ends meet with a 149 fee to fix a hardware issue. Apparently, the YLOD (Yellow Light of Death) occurs mostly in the first generation playstations (which of course I have). When the XBOX360 had their RROD (Red Ring of Death) they extended all the XBOX warranties from 1 year to 3 years. Playstation has extended generation 1 playstation3 warranties from 1 year to 1 1/2 years! How pathetic!

Londa of Brodhead, WI January 10, 2009

Londa of Brodhead WI (01/10/09)
i am complaining about a game made for my kids playstation2. the game was called guitar hero. we bought the game plus on extra guitar for it. they opened x-mas morning we hooked it up and it didnt work. we waited till the next day to return it for another one this time we went to janesville to return it and exchange it. we got it home agian hooked it up and agian it didnt work. it was the one thing besided the playstation 3 that they wanted for x-mas. we ended up returning it agian but this time just getting our money back.

now our situation is we came close to no x-mas at all as to my life threating accident and i am diabled now and only my husband works but we scrapped enough to bye this game for my 2 kids. well since niether game worked you can imagine what type of x-mas my kids had im amd very sad and disapointed in this event. we know we hooked it up properly as well and as we were returning it the second time the man at the counter had told us that a few others had to return the same game because something on it didnot work. this make me wonder about sony in the future.

our playstation worked with ever other game we owned but guitar hero always came up with disc erro and did nothing.

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