PlayStation 3 Outage Angers Players

American Voices • Science & Technology • video games • ISSUE 46•09 • Mar 3, 2010

A programming bug in Sony's PlayStation 3 caused error messages to crop up this week, and the manufacturer urged owners not to use the gaming console for 24 hours. What do you think?

“You know, maybe I should take a break from playing PlayStation for a while and get back to playing Xbox."”
Lisa Bell –
Track Inspector
“I couldn't drive my Toyota or use my PlayStation, so I just called up my Grandpa and complained about the Japanese with him."”
Allen Chilton –
Systems Analyst
“Yeah, my son was pretty pissed. My son is the head of PlayStation, incidentally."”
Jim Stephens –
Neck Cutter

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