PlayStation 3 Talk

[Fox]

http://killerbug666.wordpress.com/2011/0...d-changes/

Here's that article that Cabs mentioned. Supposedly, Sony's been tweaking the fan speed every update to kill off older models. But the article doesn't really have any proof of this aside from his own text. There's no video documentation, pictures of the temperature reading, etc.

I can't really see why Sony would want to kill off the older PS3s either. They make money off of games and services, not the consoles. In fact, they used to lose money with every unit sold, and now they still probably barely make anything at all with the Slims.

I think it's really just the shitty unleaded soldering and crappy thermal paste that they use that's caused the fatties to die off one by one.

I think with all the hardware revisions made on the ps3 these past few years, there is a large chance that they are already at break even point or selling with a profit on those new models.
One biggest change made was the decrease in cell processor and RSX chip die size making it cheaper to produce. This resulted also on a more efficient operation and less heat output.

The only problem I have now is that I might not save all the downloaded games I have on my fatty since they all require user profile activation. Unfortunately one of those user profile was banned for some unknown reason.

To buy a new one, or to revive the old one: that is the question...

That's what i've been asking myself as well. I got in touch with the guy who does PS3 reballing and he mentioned that he charges around a third of what it costs to get a new unit. He did mention though, that he can't guarantee whether or not that damn yellow light will return in the future, as there are also other components that are possible causes of that particular problem.

Sigh, decisions, decisions...