I tried to download the latest update today and my PS3 just turned into a brick.

That's the second time that's happened and the second time I've had to pay to get it fixed… well, I say I've paid, it's really been my parents… it would take me forever to save that much from my paper round.

I rang Sony up and they said it's just a coincidence that my PS3, which has been working ace ever since it came back from being repaired last time an update messes it up, suddenly becomes as useful as a glass hammer when I started to download the new update… it's not their fault, honest, and they can repair it for me… for just £128

If it goes wrong again it'll have cost almost as much to get it repaired as it did for my parents to buy it for me in the first place.

Still… it could be worse… I could have wanted a Xbox 360 and they're really unreliable… and when they repair your console it has to go to Germany which is miles away, and they're so embarrassed about it they don't charge you a penny to repair it… one of my mates sent his off for repair and they sent him a new console inside a week… thank god I don't get repair service like that… my PS3 came back after just 3 weeks… and having had to pay for the repair I feel more secure in the knowledge that it won't break for a third time in a year.

While it was gone last time I had to play on my friends Xbox… it was horrible, he's been play some RPG called Tales of Vesperia that he had to wait 18 months for to get a European release, it's been out for ages in Japan and America… it looked alright, and if I wait a while the PS3 version will eventually come out… just like I waited for Bioshock and Eternal Sonata… I laughed so hard that they were coming out on the PS3 when they were meant to be Xbox exclusives… it was that laughter that got me through the year's wait until the PS3 version came out… I went to my mates to laugh at him, but he said he didn't care, those games were "so last year" and laughed himself… I didn't get the joke though.

I told my big brother and he said that what my friend had been laughing at was that I thought getting an inferior version of a game a year later was some sort of victory for the PS3 (which it so was) and that my friend was probably laughing at me for being such a "Sad Act!"

I told my parents I want a PS3 Slim for Christmas, Dad looked at me like I'd walked dog mess into the house and said that if my PS3 went wrong again, and I asked for another £135 to fix it, he'd turn my current PS3 into a Slim by stamping it flat with his foot… I told him that the PS3 was 100% reliable and he just looked at me with the look that says, "Get out of here before I hit you" and I left.

I went and asked my mum for a PS3 Slim for Christmas and she said that they were too expensive, I said that I didn't think they were expensive, she said that was because I wasn't the one paying for them.

Mt brother said he'd never get another Sony machine after his PS2 stopped reading disks after just 5 months and Sony made him buy a new one, he's got a 360 now but won't let me touch it… he says I'm a jinx… his 360 hasn't gone wrong once in the four years he's had it… but when it does I'm going to laugh at him so hard my face will hurt.