Technology

While I was playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on the first day I spring break, I experienced something very detrimental. My Playstation 3 broke right in front of my very eyes. I was about to win a game of team death match on one of my least favorite maps (Derail) when all of the sudden my screen just went black. It was extremely weird and very unexpected, but right before the screen went out CoD gave me an error message I have never seen. I can’t remember exactly what the phrase was, but once I saw that I knew something was extremely wrong.

I seriously had no idea what was going on, I sat there for a few minutes to soak in exactly what happened. But I was lost in my thoughts, so I decided I would turn it on again. Then my Playstation gave me what PS3 users call YLoD (Yellow light of death), it’s very similar to the Xbox’s ring of death. I actually had to look that up online after I observed the symptoms and I was then able to diagnose my Playstation with deadly disease.

This is exactly how it happened; I turned on my Playstation again, then I looked as though it was going to turn on, but it gave me a yellow light and after that three distinct beeps, then a flashing red light. I found a website online that a guy created for people just like me, as I was reading his article I was shocked how exact his explanation was. Everything he described was exactly how I felt and exactly how it happened.

Once I found out that the only way to cure my PS3 was to send it into Sony Playstation and pay $150 just to get it fixed, I was even angrier. I found some videos online of a few people taking apart their whole entire Playstation to re-solder the broken connections on the memory board, but there was no way I was going to try that and have to buy a brand new $300 PS3.

So I called Playstation the next day and they told me everything I would have to do and how to send it into Sony and how I can’t fix the problem myself. Then the person asked if there was a disc stuck inside, and I realized that my favorite game was still in there and Sony is the only company able to get that out. I’m now sitting at home still waiting for Sony to send me back my PS3, so my favorite hobby will have to be put on hold for a little while longer!