A Note [Dec 8, 2009]

You know, I take very good care of my systems. I don't bash them, I don't let them overheat, I don't stack consoles on top of one another. So how this happened to me I have no clue.

Returning home after a tiring exam, the first thing I had in mind was to mellow out and play some Metal Gear Solid 4 as a personal celebration. Not even two minutes into gameplay, the game shuts off. The system shuts off. The lights go from green to null. You can almost picture my jaw just dropping at that instant, spewing out profanities like the Micro Machines guy.

Try another AC cable, you say?
Try another outlet, you say?
Try letting it cool down, you say?

It simply will not turn on.

This is precisely why I don't own an XBox 360 because I didn't want shit like this to happen. I have a surplus of games I just recently purchased to keep myself occupied this upcoming winter break so I wouldn't have had to resort to the Wii, which has the worst library of games for any console I've seen in years save for Brawl and even that game is utterly botched.

Tekken 6. GTA 4. Bioshock. They'll all have to be placed on hiatus for another two to three weeks just in time for the winter recess to end. Fan-fuckin-tastic.

And 150 dollars for a repair is insane given the fact that I paid merely 300 for it. What would make this easier would be if the PS3 80gb backwards compatible models were still in production. Some of you might suggest that I purchase a slim but it's quite a feat having to demote your PS3 like that. While the slim is nice, it doesn't have the most important feature: backwards compatibility.

So for the next half a month, I'm PS3less and I can only hope that my trophy collection will still be there waiting for me.