Now the PS2s are blowing up News
PlayStation 2 News by Tom Bramwell
Sony has announced a global recall of certain AC adaptors supplied with the black slimline PlayStation after ascertaining that they may overheat and cause injury.
The company has blamed subcontractor for supplying a component to the AC Adaptor manufacturer that was vulnerable to overheating – so much so that in severe cases, reported in North America, the AC Adaptor actually melted.
Sony Europe says it knows of four cases in its territories of Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Oceania and described the incidents as minor with no severe consequences. The recall is a "precautionary measure", it said.
The AC adaptors in question were manufactured between August and December of 2004 and supplied with PS2 models SCPH70002, 70003 and 70004. Sony has launched a special website, www.ps2ac.com to help you check whether yours needs replacing. You can find details of numbers to call on the same site and they will also be published in national newspapers tomorrow.
Replacements will be made available free of charge, and Sony advises anybody with an affected unit to avoid using it again until it's replaced. The replacement will arrive with a prepaid postage label so that you can send it back to Sony to be disposed of.
Sony has declined to comment on how much the recall is likely to cost, although all those prepaid packages and replacement AC Adaptors aren't likely to come cheap. Sony may have had trouble supplying PS2s to retailers during the run-up to Christmas last year, but it wasn't because it manufactured less units; they simply took longer to make it to market.
It's not the first problem of its sort we've encountered this year, either. In February Microsoft announced that it was voluntarily replacing 14.1 million Xbox power cables after a similar fault was uncovered, only to admit a few months later that the number was actually larger than initially thought.
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zErOb_cOOl
13/09/05 @ 08:40
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"The AC adaptors in question were manufactured between August and December of 2004 and supplied with PS2 models SCPH70002, 70003 and 70004."
I knew there was something fishy about the heat coming off the Slimline PS2 though. I thought the console itself got far too hot, never mind the power adaptor! So glad I didn't wait and buy one. |
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I swear to god if my slimline dies I will never buy another peice of sony crap in my life! Not bein funny but this is my third Ps2 (all replaced because of dodgy drives/poor or no dvd playback apart from my last one wich just decided to completely die a few weeks ago) I just dont get it, arent sony meant to be THE electronics giant but even after ten or more years of making playstations they are still giving us poorly made (probably in taiwan) crap! I am really not happy about this as I've never had to re-purchase a console and I've had them all why are sony so useless? *not happy*
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I got those 'disc read errors' as well on my old one, but I managed to fix it following a guide I linked to ages ago on the forum. Eventually GTA:SA finished it off though, and it just went dead. :(
The slimline model is very nice though. Small and quiet. Did you manage to muster up the courage to tinker with the Swap Tool to play imports though? |
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I've actually never bought a Sony products that's failed. Why everyone else is having problems with them is beyond me. Am I just being extremely lucky?
I've bought two TVs from Sony, both of them the most successful tv-purchases I've made. Philips is supposed to be cream of the crop, but I'm more satisfied with my Sony tvs. I bought the original PS1 back in '98 or '99, modified it almost immediately. Runs like hell even today. Let a family member borrow it, and bought myself the remake, PSone later. Modified very quickly. Still runs as new. Bought my first PS2 four months after the initial PAL release. Runs perfectly today. Bought an american PS2 some months later, along with FFX. This is my current PS2 for import games. Bought a silver slimline PS2 earlier this year, on the day of release. Needless to say, this still works as good as new too. Do people thrown their PS2s in the walls or anything, 'cause all of mine have been incredibly resilient. Oh, both my Discman and MD Walkman are in perfect condition, technically. And most recently, my PSP. I don't think I've ever had a dodgy Sony product. |
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Markusdragon
13/09/05 @ 12:30
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*looks around for the Ps2 fanboys that were saying that Xboxes kill people when Xbox had the recall*
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RabidMonkey
13/09/05 @ 15:55
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"Haha, I've now had to replace both my PS2 and Xbox cables!"
Yes, as have I. Kind of makes you feel special doesn't it?
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I never really though about it before but the combined cost of me replacing dead Ps2's since its uk launch has been like £600 ,£300 for the first one ,£200 for the second one and £100 for my slimline ,kinda makes you wonder if Sony do it on purpose. In the three or so years Ive had an XBox not one single prob,it's my most used music&dvd player aswell. To me it just makes the Xbox360 seem even more apealing. I will never be a fanboy as it's all about the games but Sony dont half make it easy to hate them.
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For me it was the other way around. My THIRD Xbox in two years, my PS2 was from launchday, and still works (in the bedroom uhum) like a dream and bought a slimline because the Xbox took up all the space. The Xbox is explainable because I threw many a joypad on it in pure frustration and since you can't miss it, I wrecked every harddisk in it. The PS2s, I missed and still work. Perhaps there's the connection we seek and needn't blame Sony but ourselves?
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Hmm I can't say the same rules apply to me brombeer as I tend not to attack any of my consoles,all are treated the same and looked after, I know a few have had probs with the XBox but I dont think it's on anything like the Ps2 scale of things, I have friends who have shared the exact same problems as me , so I'm afraid I still veer towards blaming Sony for poor (probably on purpose) workmanship.
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Sony workmanship at its best, I am now on my 4th PS2 now, (all three died of disc drive failure, just within warranty, thank god!) Seriously if it wasn't for the industry's dependance on PS2 i'd have quit after that. I am SO envious of those who had no problems with their PS2s. You, my lucky friends seem to be in a minority. I now behave like an overprotective mother with my Sony consoles(PSP alert!).
But surely all this faulty power adapter stuff (which my Gamecube has been free of) is indicitive of end of generation cutbacks? |
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