With all of the negativity surrounding the quality of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 hardware, it’salmosta welcome sight to see a headline proclaiming the durability of the PlayStation 3 (however partial the source may be).
According to recent tests conducted by PS3Vault, nothing short of asledgehammeris powerful enough to bring the mighty PS3 to its knees. So what sort of hardships did the PSTriple endure and pass with flying colors? How about 108 hours of pretty much nonstop use in the harshest of environments:
Guess what? ThePS3didn’t buckle under the pressure — even when faced with the unfathomable idea of playing a marathon of the “Blu-rays.” Pretty impressive, when you consider the thousands of Xbox 360s that have perished in the most comfortable of places. However, I must point out that while this looks good to Sony fans out there, I’m less than inclined to believe it without some video to back it up.
Hit the jump for the full details on the testing.
The following conditions were applied to each testing environment
• Continuous usuage of 108hours with no interruption to power supply• Game of choice was Resistance Fall of Man & Motor Storm, Enchanted Arms• Blu Ray movies – Several – around 10 different titles , Casino Royale, The Departed, Pirates of the Caribbean, Terminator 2, Superman Returns…• Console was positioned on standalone timber unit with approximate 10cms of airflow under neath.• Same 10 players were used over this period each playing or using the unit for a maximum of 1.5hours in any given session.• Same controllers were used throughout the testing period
The following cycle was copied and used in each testing environment.Start time Monday 9am –2 hours blue ray dvd titles4 hours continuous play on Resistance FOM2 hours continuous play on Motor Storm2 x blue ray dvd movies1 x blue ray dvd movie1 x blue ray dvd movie2 hours continuous play on Motor Storm6 hours of Motor Storm6 hours of Resistance Fom10 hours of Blue Ray Dvd 7 titles1 hour of Motor Storm3 hours of Resistance5 hours of Enchanted Arms2 hours blue ray dvd title2 hours blue ray dvd title5 hours Resistance FOM5 hours Motor Storm1 hour enchanted Arms3 hours blue ray dvd titlesRepeated from the top until 108hours
Environment 1 Typical Family RoomTemperature 73 FConsole Ran continuous for the 108hours with only once incident happening at 12 hours in – a slight vibration coming from the tray area which lasted approximately 20 seconds. For the remaining time allocated no incidents were reported
Environment 2 Back of a Freezer Van– unit was placed inside the closed van with controllers and screen mounted outside, – no one was willing to sit in side the van for any extended period of timeTemperature Started at 50F and was progressively scaled down over the next 4 days to reach 0degrees.Incidents We noticed a slight sluggishness in playback once the temperature reached 0 degrees , this was maintained for the last 24hours, with 12 hours to go we thought we were going to crash with a sudden , blackout to the screen, this was tracked down to condensation on the cord for the screen.108hours in and still working fine
Environment 3 Heat Sauna– again console inside and controllers and screen outside.Starting temperature was 100F and Gradually increased to 120F over the last 24hours.Incidents Strangley enough we thought this would prove to be the ultimate area to kill the console, and to our surprise the only incident we noticed was a slight burning smell that came in around 64hours at 110F, the console was extremely hot when we finished the overall test but had come thru all environments with flying colours.This console is now back in a normal environment and working fine.
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