Well as you all know my Playstation 3 currently is swimming with the fishes after getting my review copy of Skate 2, and also Sony had proceeded to tell me I had to pay $160 to fix a machine that barely lasted over a year. Well I decided that wasn’t right and proceeded to call Sony another time, being fully prepared to get hostile if needed because there is no reason a machine this expensive should of died so quickly when it was taken care of very well and hardly used.

So I spoke with a representative about the broken PS3 and said that I should not have to pay that fee because of how short of a lifespan this thing had when it shouldn’t of happened at all, the woman was like “That’s our policy we can’t really fix it unless you pay” So I said, “Is there anyone higher up I can speak to about this? Because frankly this isn’t fair and it isn’t right. I’ve been a loyal customer for years and never had a console die this fast ever.” So she proceeded to connect me to the Manager there but I never actually got to speak to one I was just on hold for awhile. So after about 15 minutes of being on hold she tells me that the supervisor authorized them to fix my console, needless to say I was very pleased that it was all handled quite fast and I now have a box on its way to me to send in my PS3.

I’ll keep this updated and let you know the turnaround and how quickly I get my PS3 back.

update 1-29-09: well I received the box today and to my surprise the return label is an overnight shipping label, that is quite nice! Microsoft doesn’t do anything like that so I hope they overnight it back to me when they fix/replace my system!

I received my review copy of Skate 2 on PS3 on the 16th, It was actually supposed to be an xbox 360 copy but someone messed up somewhere. So that error aside I go to start my journey into a game I’ve been waiting a LONG time for. Then trouble ensues, first for some reason the game wasn’t running like it should, second the textures started blurring out and not loading in properly. I thought I might of gotten a bad disk, but then my PS3 freezes, I restart the machine only to find out it will not read discs anymore. I’m like 15 days past my 1 year warranty and they want to charge me 160 dollars. I’m not happy, I’m quite depressed.

*sigh*