My friends 60GB PS3 broke - Hey Kosma

[AdmiralViscen]

Get your PS3 back yet? LOL

It keeps chugging in the middle of Blu Ray flicks, its only function.


If he swaps at BestBuy, how can he keep all his saves and downloaded games? What's the deal? Is there a gamertag recovery that will restore them?

[duckman2000]

Couldn't you just remove the HDD?

[demi]

Keep the HDD

[Rman]

Get your PS3 back yet? LOL

It keeps chugging in the middle of Blu Ray flicks, its only function.


If he swaps at BestBuy, how can he keep all his saves and downloaded games? What's the deal? Is there a gamertag recovery that will restore them?

He can re-download all his PSN games via the PSN Store as long as he logs in with his same ''gamertag''.

He can back up his saves to various media formats-pro duo, micro SD, usb hard drive, using the back up utility.

[AdmiralViscen]

BestBuy isn't going to accept an HDDless console. You're lucky if they let you swap 360 HDDs, and those are both of the same size.

There's no form of tag recovery that he can use to keep his games?

If he sends it to Sony and they can only send back an 80GB, will they throw in some free shit to make up for it?


edit: OK. Does he have to delete the gamertag from the current PS3 first?

[Rman]

He will just need to log into the PSN store using his PSN ID and he can easily re-download all his games. 

edit: No, Sony handles DRM a bit differently.  You can download your games up five times on any console.  AFAIK, Warhawk has some freaky DRM set up that's a bit different from the other PSN titles.

[AdmiralViscen]

Even Warhawk? That doesn't allow gamesharing.

What's Sony's repair turnaround time?

[Don Flamenco]

There's a back up option under System Settings, I think.  It backs up everything on the system--you'll need something like an external HDD to fit everything (it'll probably be a few gigs.)  If you restore it on a new system, the PSN games won't come back, so he can delete those first to cut down the back up file size.  You have to redownload those (and you can just log in to the PSN on the new one and do that.)  No super shitty DRM restrictions on the PSN games, they work like normal, but I think you only get 5 re-downloads.

edit: yeah, like Rman said.  I'm not sure about warhawk and the turnaround for a 60gb might be really long...

[AdmiralViscen]

But what about Warhawk, you can't gameshare for that.

Or is it that standard gamesharing allows the game to be played by any tag on the console once it's been downloaded by the owner's account, but Warhawk only lets that account play the game?

[Rman]

I would not know how re-downloading Warhawk would work.