IF PS3 were to update/upgrade and yours crashed would you sue?

Okay I KNOW THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN..... but

We all know Sony did not activate the 8th cell because of chip difficulties... not big enough yield and too many failing... so they droped to 7 SPUs and if 1 did not work it was fine as they did not use it. also at 90nm it was giving off SOO much heat that they limited the GHz to 3.2

NOW the chip yields are fine as they shrank the Cell to 45nm and the heat is not an issue...

SO if they activated the 8th cell and raised the GHz to 4.8 from 3.2 it would work. Though some say 10-15 percent of consoles would fail and need their chips replaced. IF this happned would you sue Sony or would you pay for an upgrade how much??

Again I know this will not happen... But its cool to think about.

I have no idea what you just typed but I would just get a new console because I still have over a year's worth of warranty on it.

First of all they are called "SPE" not SPU, secondly the speed is determined by the quality of the chip and heat and I don't think the Cell ever had 8 cores i means what are the chances that every single chip had one bad core.... Thirdly this upgrade would never happen as previous games would not make use of this elusive 8th core and it would just sit there creating heat... And i think this upgrade could be done by some specialised firmware upgrades like activating a AMD dual-core into its originally intended quad-core...

Okay I KNOW THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN..... but

We all know Sony did not activate the 8th cell because of chip difficulties... not big enough yield and too many failing... so they droped to 7 SPUs and if 1 did not work it was fine as they did not use it. also at 90nm it was giving off SOO much heat that they limited the GHz to 3.2

NOW the chip yields are fine as they shrank the Cell to 45nm and the heat is not an issue...

SO if they activated the 8th cell and raised the GHz to 4.8 from 3.2 it would work. Though some say 10-15 percent of consoles would fail and need their chips replaced. IF this happned would you sue Sony or would you pay for an upgrade how much??

Again I know this will not happen... But its cool to think about.

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Really? Dude.... When's the last time you got some sleep? This is some random tweeker ramble. Take a breath. We'll all be OK. Don't scare the kiddies.

It would basically alienate the entire existing userbase and the dev community at the same time. And if my ps3 died, then... that's it. I will be selling everything I have for the ps3 and washing my hands clean of Sony's filth.codezer0

I left GS for awhile & come back to topics like these. (Sigh)

WOW although I had no idea that the responce would be so negitive. ... let me explain

Sony would have a firmware update that would allow the eigth SPE to activate. This would not have any effect on older games... but would be usable for newer games.

Also the firmware update would allow the CPU to increase its GHz from 3.2 to 4.0 GHz(or there abouts)

I AM NOT SAYING that Sony would come out with a new console with better abilities. But by Having this UPDATE many consoles would fail. MOST of them would be the phat consoles till the slim line launched. Some of the early slim line would also fail. BUT I THINK hardly any of the newer Slims would fail. The ones with 45nm Cell chips.

What I was thinking COULD (IDK) be done is that Sony would need to replace the chips. But then the question is who would pay for it..... That was my question.

I wanted to know IF this did happen would people be happy to get the extra boost in power, and if the cost was around $100.00 dollars to get it fixed OR maybe pay 100.00 for a waranteeprior to the update of $100.00 dollars for 1 to 2 years. That way if your console failed you would be covered.I wanted to know would people be willing to pay for that power boost, or want Sony to pay for it... and if some people would be upset and want to sue.

WOW although I had no idea that the responce would be so negitive. ... let me explain

Sony would have a firmware update that would allow the eigth SPE to activate. This would not have any effect on older games... but would be usable for newer games.

Also the firmware update would allow the CPU to increase its GHz from 3.2 to 4.0 GHz(or there abouts)

I AM NOT SAYING that Sony would come out with a new console with better abilities. But by Having this UPDATE many consoles would fail. MOST of them would be the phat consoles till the slim line launched. Some of the early slim line would also fail. BUT I THINK hardly any of the newer Slims would fail. The ones with 45nm Cell chips.

What I was thinking COULD (IDK) be done is that Sony would need to replace the chips. But then the question is who would pay for it..... That was my question.

I wanted to know IF this did happen would people be happy to get the extra boost in power, and if the cost was around $100.00 dollars to get it fixed OR maybe pay 100.00 for a waranteeprior to the update of $100.00 dollars for 1 to 2 years. That way if your console failed you would be covered.I wanted to know would people be willing to pay for that power boost, or want Sony to pay for it... and if some people would be upset and want to sue.

I bought the extra 2 year warranty from Sony so I don't have to worry about stuff like this.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/170482/sonys_ps3_slim_carries_updated_cell_chip.html "the chip delivers many performance improvements while drawing less power than earlier chips... IBM declined to provide the clock speed of the new Cell processor".

Lets look at this... Sony decides to make this happen to prolong the PS3 life till 2016 or 2017 and have Move, and 3Dwork better.

Let say 90% of PS3's with 90nm Cell chips fail, and 40% of PS3's with 65nm cell chips fail and 5% of PS3 slims fail. SO about 15 Million PS's fain and need a new cell chip placed in them... How much would that cost?? a fix cost $150.00 but cell chips cost less than $37.73 http://www.isuppli.com/teardowns-manufacturing-and-pricing/news/pages/sony-gets-one-step-closer-to-breakeven-point-with-latest-playstation-3-design.aspx.

So lets say for shipping and labor a total of $100.00 for each console... they could sell the warrantee and when people ship it in replace the Chip. $100.00 * 15Million is 1.5 Billion so about the same as it cost Microsoft for their extended warentee program.