How long did your PS3 live or has been alive?

[Parkway91]

I've still got my fat 1st gen 40GB model. Before the price drop, here in Australia a paid a hefty $999 for it with Ass Creed, NFS Pro Street and Resistance and a HDMI cable.

This model hasn't faulted on me yet, but since writing that I feel I have cursed it...

I have replaced the hard drive on it, but apart from that it's still stock as off the shelf.

It get's used as both my primary gaming device and bluray/dvd player.

One of the reasons I wouldn't think twice about a PS4, just because this one has been flawless for me, although I would wait for a price drop this time.

 

[-Samurai-]

Got mine launch day, and it's still alive and kicking after extremely heavy use. Picked up a slim last year to ease the old one into retirement, but really it has just lead to lan ps3 gaming.

 

[TK421]

Had mine for around 3-4 years now, the medium slim model.
Still works the same as the day I bought it.
No unusual sounds or anything like that.

I'm in pretty much the same boat, but 2-3 years here. No problems, except they made the store suck, but that's not a hardware issue.

 

[gorfias]

I bought a slim and it lasted about 5-6 months with very light use, one day I was playing Uncharted and the system just turned off. Turned it on, no video output. Had to send it back, they sent me a new system (or repaired?), the returned system has been sitting in the box since I got insanely pissed for having lost all my save files.
Oddly enough I still have my launch day 360 that has been through hell and back.

Sorry about your PS3 dying. My 360 got Red Ring about 2 years 10 months in. They fixed if for free in a month. It lasted another 3 years and died this fall. Knowing the 720 coming out soon, I can't bring myself to replace it, so I'm doing all my console gaming on the PS3.

The guy that wrote it lasted a good 6000 hours of play time gives me hope

Guestimation from hardware involved... probably around 15 to 20 years. Course the big issue is whether you'll still wish to play out-dated tech by then. Not everyone's into old-school.

LOL, we can hope! TVs are rated about 10,000 hours!

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

The first one I got (around launch) stopped working within a couple of weeks. Still not sure why. I sent for a replacement, and when it finally arrived, about a month later, someone had dropped the damn box along the way and it was spiderwebbed from one corner across the entire PS3. I sent it back again and finally got the machine that would serve me until about a year ago, when it went RLoD and despite being fixed once, developed the problem again. I now have one of the new models - which is sad, I liked the shiny black, but oh well - and it should last me well past when the PS4 comes out.

 

[MMSouthpawVIII]

I got my George Foreman grill about about a month after launch and it has never given me any problems. I did ignore it for quite a while due to friends and I playing on 360 (went through 4 of them), but now it is my main console although I've moved on to PC.

 

[loc978]

Bought a 60GB PS3 in the summer of 2007 (exact date is a little hazy). It's still going strong, though I now consider it a 320GB backwards-compatible model with a 19-blade fan and real heatsink compound. Damn corner-cutting console makers...

Still, it's got nothing on my Atari 2600. It's about a year older than I am.

 

[piinyouri]

Had mine for around 3-4 years now, the medium slim model.
Still works the same as the day I bought it.
No unusual sounds or anything like that.

I'm in pretty much the same boat, but 2-3 years here. No problems, except they made the store suck, but that's not a hardware issue.

Haha, this is one of those rare times where no one is exasperating when they say that.
Lord the PSN is painful to navigate now.

 

[ChildofGallifrey]

I've got a 60GB launch model. We use it for a few hours every night to watch Netflix, on top of it being my primary console (most of my games are PS2). Still going strong.

 

[redmoretrout]

I picked mine up used 3 years ago, its never had any problems. ( Granted, I am mostly play games on PC, but it does see very heavy use as a Blu-ray player and on netflix.)

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

I have had an 80Gig fat model since early 2009. I replaced the 80Gig with a 300GB hard drive, but two years after that I got a YLOD. Turned out it was the hard drive itself that was the issue, but I sent it to Sony for a fee, they fixed it up, and sent it back pretty damn fast. Still plays just as well as when I got it. I begged for that console for years after it came out, and my parents finally got one from Aarons (they tried to fuck us over with it though...) Not too long after I started my own gaming pc...But that didn't stop me from playing my playstation, loving both systems equally.

 

[___________________]

Since 2009. Fat 80GB model. Been working this thing like it's no one's business. It's one solid piece of equipment and works just as fine as when I bought it. I'm disappointed that they're launching another system so soon. Did they forget lots of people were put off from the PS3 due to pricing and got their models later and still catching up with some games? Oh well. I'm not buying the PS4 for a very long time and I imagine many will do the same. I eventually might buy one when I see a Metal Gear Solid title for it.

 

[kyuzo3567]

I got the original 80GB model maybe a month after they came out for my birthday... Only issue ive ever had was one time it didn't like connecting to my wi-fi, and just over Christmas I finally reached my 80gig limit for game installations. I usually rented games to try, then bought the ones I really wanted. I sent mine over the memory limit with the GOW 5 game collection and the Mass Effect Trilogy w/all DLC for it.

 

[NEDM]

Bought the larger launch models the day it was available. Still plays to this day after heavy usage. In that same span i've gone through 4 360's. I've always been very good about keeping my consoles safe, and cooled, and all that. So I have ended up favoring the ps3 far more, because I am sure I can turn it on and it will work, while my 360 is sort of a will it break down yet again? Though I am fairly certain I will have to change out ps3 in the near future, or at least replace part of it. Friend of mine who fiddles with these things and knows his stuff says eventually the disc reader will wear out due to the moving parts involved.

 

[deserteagleeye]

Had it for 4-and-a-half years and the only problem is that the fan gets a bit loud after 5 hours of use.

 

[Kaymish]

well my PS3 has been around for about 3-4 years its done maybe 100 hours of gaming over that time but its played many many DVD's and i haven't finished any games on it PC keeps calling me back whispers in my ear "please consorting with the unclean is beneath you"
anyway it did start doing some stupid stuff like the controllers not working but then it started working properly again which was weird so yeah its lasted ok considering how much it gets abused by the people who didnt fork out any money for it but then again playing DVD's and Bluray's is not much of a work out is it

 

[jdogtwodolla]

Around six years now I think.

Mine was bought just right after the store stopped carrying backwards compatible systems so I was kinda disappointed with my purchase for a little while. I forget at the moment how many gigs there are, but it's one of the lower numbers for sale.

The Blue-Ray drive started going out last year. can't watch any movie on a disk without having to unplug and re-plug the HDMI cable from the console. Or at least I think it's because of the Blue-Ray drive.