Sataurday night, while busy watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt1 on Bluray on the PS3 it just froze and locked up. Turning it off and on again I discovered that it wouldn't play read ANY disk. (also the disk comes out the way it goes in so I'm assuming a dead motor)
The old 80gig fat PS3 is over two years old and out of warranty so sending to Sony for fixing at about AU$200-300 is clearly not that hot an option when a new 160gb PS3 is AU$409
also I have a much deader Japanese 60gig (the GPU crapped out on me)
so Sending the 80gig fat to sony is gonna cost a lot and be gone for 2-3 weeks I have a dead PS3 with a knackered GPU and a dead PS3 with a knackered BD Drive.
My decision was to trade in all the game stuff I simply have not touched in months if not years, and get a new PS3 160gb Slim.
Doing this means I get a brand new machine with a bigger HD and cooler cheeper to run innards. Unlike the repair or replace options from Sony where you are likely to loose the data on your HD, I get to use the data transfer option to basically clone my old machine onto the new one (including all copy restricted save games and data)
then.. once the new one is up and running with all my accounts games and data I get to attempt to swap the BD from the Japanese unit into the 80gb Pal unit to get a working Full Fat 80gb that I can then sell on to off set the cost of the new one..
As it goes I dumped a lot of games and the Wii and netted a surprising $566 from EB games (your games are worth 50% more if you trade more then 8 at a time. So the new PS3 ($409) is already paid for and the the stuff I sold I won't miss. so sunday arvo I came home with a shiny new PS3 and a lot of shelf space. (good riddance to JD Hero) I'm still debating wether it was an expensive or cheap day...
BTW.. DO NOT trade your games at Games Traders. For the same stuff that EB gave me $566 for they offered ~$140. seriously DO NOT trade at Games Traders.
Anyway. I hook both PS3s up to the Tv and start prepping them for data transfer. but then I discover that PSN is down..
I need PSN to A: deactivate the accounts on the old ps3 and then reacivate them on the new one... So yay! Screwed.
