Sony introduces a PlayStaton warranty plan...

New PlayStation Protection Plan provides added peace of mind:

With the PlayStation Protection Plan, you can extend the same coverage from the original manufacturer's one-year warranty for one or two additional years. The pricing includes all shipping charges and repairs, which are performed by PlayStation-trained service technicians at SCEA-authorized repair facilities. The PlayStation Protection Plan is available beginning in May 2010. PSP owners can also choose the Accidental Damage Plan, which provides coverage for cracked-screen damage in the event of an unexpected drop. See pricing below:

• PS3 - 1-year extension ($44.99) or 2-year extension ($59.99)
• PSP - 1-year extension ($29.99) or 2-year extension ($39.99)
• PSP Accidental Damage - 1-year ($39.99) or 2-year ($49.99)

Considering that Xbox 360 offers a 3 year warranty for its most common issues, having to pay $60 to get two addition years of Yellow Light and DRE coverage for your PS3 seems a little disingenuous at best.

New PlayStation Protection Plan provides added peace of mind:

With the PlayStation Protection Plan, you can extend the same coverage from the original manufacturer's one-year warranty for one or two additional years. The pricing includes all shipping charges and repairs, which are performed by PlayStation-trained service technicians at SCEA-authorized repair facilities. The PlayStation Protection Plan is available beginning in May 2010. PSP owners can also choose the Accidental Damage Plan, which provides coverage for cracked-screen damage in the event of an unexpected drop. See pricing below:

• PS3 - 1-year extension ($44.99) or 2-year extension ($59.99)
• PSP - 1-year extension ($29.99) or 2-year extension ($39.99)
• PSP Accidental Damage - 1-year ($39.99) or 2-year ($49.99)

Considering that Xbox 360 offers a 3 year warranty for its most common issues, having to pay $60 to get two addition years of Yellow Light and DRE coverage for your PS3 seems a little disingenuous at best.

UnnDunn

Yay for plans I don't need. The sad thing is the average consumer will buy into this no doubt.

This is PS3, you dont need a plan...

If I had an Xbox however, i'd be all over this.

This is PS3, you dont need a plan...

If I had an Xbox however, i'd be all over this.

New PlayStation Protection Plan provides added peace of mind:

With the PlayStation Protection Plan, you can extend the same coverage from the original manufacturer's one-year warranty for one or two additional years. The pricing includes all shipping charges and repairs, which are performed by PlayStation-trained service technicians at SCEA-authorized repair facilities. The PlayStation Protection Plan is available beginning in May 2010. PSP owners can also choose the Accidental Damage Plan, which provides coverage for cracked-screen damage in the event of an unexpected drop. See pricing below:

• PS3 - 1-year extension ($44.99) or 2-year extension ($59.99)
• PSP - 1-year extension ($29.99) or 2-year extension ($39.99)
• PSP Accidental Damage - 1-year ($39.99) or 2-year ($49.99)

Considering that Xbox 360 offers a 3 year warranty for its most common issues, having to pay $60 to get two addition years of Yellow Light and DRE coverage for your PS3 seems a little disingenuous at best.

UnnDunn

OK, so you just payed 300 dollars for a gaming machine but 60 is too steep a price? And then when you get YLOD you complain and WE have to read it.

i never pay for protection plans. i just trust in the great god of electronics. it's worked thus farJandurin

:oThanks for the tip. Might start worshiping him now to avoid any damage to my systems. On topic, I don't buy those packages either.

[QUOTE="SRTtoZ"]

This is PS3, you dont need a plan...

If I had an Xbox however, i'd be all over this.

Jandurin

This is pretty high but I wish I had gotten my PS3. My first one broke 15 months after I bought it and my second one broke I year after that. If I wanted to buy faulty hardware I should have just bought a 360

Yeah my 60gb PS3 could have used this years ago you ********* ***********. Scumbag thieves.

[QUOTE="Jandurin"][QUOTE="SRTtoZ"]

This is PS3, you dont need a plan...

If I had an Xbox however, i'd be all over this.

toast_burner

Agree, my 1st 360 broke a couple months after the 3 year warranty.

Considering that Xbox 360 offers a 3 year warranty for its most common issues, having to pay $60 to get two addition years of Yellow Light and DRE coverage for your PS3 seems a little disingenuous at best.UnnDunn

Yeah my 60gb PS3 could have used this years ago you ********* ***********. Scumbag thieves.

Kahuna_1

Apple also got Protection Plan right? How come no one complain the price is steep?

This is pretty high but I wish I had gotten my PS3. My first one broke 15 months after I bought it and my second one broke I year after that. If I wanted to buy faulty hardware I should have just bought a 360

BPoole96

This is PS3, you dont need a plan...

If I had an Xbox however, i'd be all over this.

[QUOTE="Jandurin"][QUOTE="SRTtoZ"]

This is PS3, you dont need a plan...

If I had an Xbox however, i'd be all over this.

Zero_epyon

yup thats all it covers... so its useless for the most part

[QUOTE="Zero_epyon"][QUOTE="Jandurin"] if you had an xbox, it'd be included free of charge :)GTSaiyanjin2

yup thats all it covers... so its useless for the most part

How is that useless? It definetly helped me when i got RROD

yea im deff getting the extended 2 year warranty for PSP, and maybe the PSP Accidental Damage plan also.

like what Felipedo said, you people say " yay for plans i dont need" now..but when your system does happen to YLOD on you you guys are quick to jump on the PS3 forum to cry about it, as if we wanna read it :roll:

Yeah my 60gb PS3 could have used this years ago you ********* ***********. Scumbag thieves.

[QUOTE="Jandurin"][QUOTE="SRTtoZ"]

This is PS3, you dont need a plan...

If I had an Xbox however, i'd be all over this.

Zero_epyon

1st year covers any hardware issues IIRC. After that, the three year warranty only covers RROD/E74.

It's good for peace of mind, and the prices aren't outright ridiculous (though still expensive).

Good for Sony.

Sony's warranties are just horrendous. The 360 is just as bad in that it breaks all the time, but then again at least you get it fixed for free. I imagine if it weren't so prone to failure they wouldn't do it for free; in fact i remember my launch 360 coming with a leaflet saying it only had a three month warranty or something ridiculous like that before you had to start paying to get it fixed. I've had both a PSP and a PS3 break however, and both times they wanted me to pay to get them fixed.

My PSP just flat-out stopped loading games after two months of owning it. They refused to repair it for me unless i pay £120, the excuse being that my warranty is void if i buy it outside of the country which i live in (and i bought it at an airport coming home from a vacation). This makes no sense as it's a region-free handheld device, but that was their policy.

Then my PS3 broke because of THEIR firmware update and they again wanted £85 to fix it. Luckily i managed to download a third-party update and install it myself which fixed it. So yeah, Sony are really lacking when it comes to warranties.

i belive this is not neccessary for new PS3 owners , old models (60 gigs) owners may make use of that deal.

lol sony is begging for Money :Pbadtaker

i belive this is not neccessary for new PS3 owners , old models (60 gigs) owners may make use of that deal.

2mrw

I won't even make use of it. My PS3 (60gb) hasn't given me a single hitch to date. After all the complaints of bricking, mine's still going strong.

The thing is, with the PS3, if it doesn't break in one year it's not likely to have any manufacturer defects. Protection plans are often a waste of money. Of course, if you have to use it, it's a great investment, but that's a big "if."

They should provide a longer built-in warranty likes MS does. themyth01

To be fair, MS was affronted with a serious hardware problem, followed later by a serious error (E74). Sony's hardware failures are within reasonable parameters this gen (hardly like last gen). Sony has no reason to implement such a long and expensive warranty, and in fact, the standard electronics warranty seems to be sufficient enough.

[QUOTE="Jandurin"][QUOTE="SRTtoZ"]

This is PS3, you dont need a plan...

If I had an Xbox however, i'd be all over this.

toast_burner

3 years isn't long enough, but a $60 2 year warranty is

this is lame

This is the case where people have skewed memories of how things happed. MS didn't launch the 360 with a 3 year warranty.

Looks like it was a 90 day warranty. Only after a ridiculously large percentage of failures did they extend it to a year.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6163599.html

It wasn't until that wasn't enough, and it took awhile, that they extended it to 3.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6173633.html

90 days isn't usually the case for electronics, so I find that a bit strange. A year is usually a good measure of manufacturer defects. Yes, some people get unlucky with these things, and that sucks, but a small percentage of unlucky individuals does not a widespread problem make.

I'd like to add that I owned a launch 60 gig, a 20gig Pro model 360, and Wii. The only one that had any problems was the Wii out of the box (power adapter). That problem was a result of the power in Iraq rather than the hardware. I sold all the systems and bought an 80 gig, non-BC ps3. All the previous systems I owned, and the "new" one are all still going strong.

So, luck definitely plays a factor.

Fail. I only get replacement plans from Best Buy, etc.

Much better than paying a company. For one, all I have to do is walk in to BB, say "Hey, my system doesn't work" and I get a "go ahead and get a 360/PS3 (depending on which I'm returning) and we'll ring it up and you can go"

No hassle at all, just a quick swap. Beats waiting two weeks or more for a refurbished system. You also pay half the price.

[QUOTE="toast_burner"]

[QUOTE="Jandurin"] if you had an xbox, it'd be included free of charge :)treedoor

3 years isn't long enough, but a $60 2 year warranty is

i never pay for protection plans. i just trust in the great god of electronics. it's worked thus farJandurin

Luls, you lucky.

On-Topic: I would be interested but when I bought my PS3 recently, I was offered an extra years warranty (by the store) for £20 and it looks like the Sony 1 year extension is more expensive. Still, it's a good move by Sony, since the PS3 is rather expensive (not in comparison to the other consoles, just in general) I'm sure many people will be willing to get that bit of extra protection.

I think ppl are getting milked by this. :| Sounds unfair as the warranty should already be there

I have to hand it Sony. Now that Blu-ray players are so cheap they need to entice people to keep their PS3. Also, what easier way to make money than to offer insurance, takes the finacial ease off a system bleeding them dry. Well done.

I would have considered though if my PS3 was still under warranty but oh well, if it breaks going to replace with a new OPPO Blu-ray player.

[QUOTE="badtaker"]lol sony is begging for Money :PHeil68

Considering it's optional, I doubt it :P

They're considering needing more, as well as to charge for online in the future. Let's not forget that they're not exactly on the kind of level that Microsoft & Nintendo are in terms of money...:P

Well Sony has been charging consumers $125 a pop to fix their faulty hardware so this is a good move.KittenWishes

It's probably $150.

[QUOTE="themyth01"] They should provide a longer built-in warranty likes MS does. lundy86_4

To be fair, MS was affronted with a serious hardware problem, followed later by a serious error (E74). Sony's hardware failures are within reasonable parameters this gen (hardly like last gen). Sony has no reason to implement such a long and expensive warranty, and in fact, the standard electronics warranty seems to be sufficient enough.

I think ppl are getting milked by this. :| Sounds unfair as the warranty should already be there

Respawn-d

New PlayStation Protection Plan provides added peace of mind:

With the PlayStation Protection Plan, you can extend the same coverage from the original manufacturer's one-year warranty for one or two additional years. The pricing includes all shipping charges and repairs, which are performed by PlayStation-trained service technicians at SCEA-authorized repair facilities. The PlayStation Protection Plan is available beginning in May 2010. PSP owners can also choose the Accidental Damage Plan, which provides coverage for cracked-screen damage in the event of an unexpected drop. See pricing below:

• PS3 - 1-year extension ($44.99) or 2-year extension ($59.99)
• PSP - 1-year extension ($29.99) or 2-year extension ($39.99)
• PSP Accidental Damage - 1-year ($39.99) or 2-year ($49.99)

Considering that Xbox 360 offers a 3 year warranty for its most common issues, having to pay $60 to get two addition years of Yellow Light and DRE coverage for your PS3 seems a little disingenuous at best.

UnnDunn