PS3 gets smashed on launch day

I find it hilarious -- all you guys crying over the state of mankind need to relax.

Ahhh, this is such a wonderful piece of art, this broken PS3. I wish I had been the one to smash it to bits, though.

Don't worry, though. Sony makes their PS3s so that they break all on their own within a few months, anyway.

Thanks for posting this, Joystiq!

NATO_Duke, as your nick expresses you are quite proud of the long-lasting friendship between America and Europe. :)

Being European myself I found that comment about the oh-so-decadent American culture quite inadequate myself, the same thing could happen over here as well.

On the other hand, there is not much to be jealous about for us when we look across the great pond. What could that be? Higher standard of living? Nope. Trustworthy and capable government? Scratch that. Better image throughout the world? Nah, not really ...

"Don't worry, though. Sony makes their PS3s so that they break all on their own within a few months, anyway."

Or a few hours, if you can believe some of the reports people are posting on the PlayStation message boards.

LMAO at people saying "JUST DONATE IT TO CHARITY"...hey, why don't you guys take your whining asses to Michael Bay and weep to him about wasting 100 million bucks his next project, which will provide exactly the same amount of entertainment this site did. Go cry.

>, Muttley, et al = people pissed they didn't get one.

And >, the reason they were "acting American," in your words, is because every Canadian secretly wishes they were American, and anyone who denies it is a liar. Fact.

They're soooo anti-consumerism, yet they have Google AdSense plastered all over their site. More like hypocrites if you ask me. About the PS3 specifically, I don't really care since I'm personally not really interested in it.

"And >, the reason they were "acting American," in your words, is because every Canadian secretly wishes they were American, and anyone who denies it is a liar. Fact."

OOOhh, burned!

"And big earl
Stop calling kettles black ya pot"

..Wha? "Fanboys aren't people"? If anything, I'm a Sega fanboy, and proud to say I would get emotional if someone posted a video of themselves smashing a Saturn.

Also, glad to see another America vs Europe dispute arising. This'll be a fun few hours.

Hmmm...even though I hate Sony with the fire of a thousand suns...I can't say I'm necessarily happy about this. But it's their money; and they are free to do with it as they want.

Kornylius

I have no problem with Europe, a lot of my gaming team is European as my name would infer. My point wasn’t to slam Europe-but rather to slam the constant attack on those in the US. Hence "Seriously, you all come off so jealous when you do that." If you read my remark then you should see I am only talking about comments on our society and the way it makes people sound. I know a lot of my euro guys would agree, as they have expressed the same view as me. Of course, others have disagreed as well-which is quite fair too.

Your reply to me was to once more bash us. I don't think it was warranted at all.

Peter Utopia
Why are you so upset? Looking yourself in the mirror? Did I hurt you for saying what I said? Yes, I'm upset because I didn't get one, so what? I haven't even tried. I'll get it tomorrow or the day after. Whenever I get it won't change the fact that those guys are idiots. You like it? Great! I just think you should learn the meaning of your name before using it. You are just like those guys. Empty.

Anyone who says "You just gave Sony $600"

Read up... Sony loses ~$240 on every system made.

Personally, I think it would have been funnier if he bought the PS3 and then on video, said "Thanks for the free PS3, assholes!" and then proceeded to either keep it, or post the results of his eBay auction.

Those crazy crazy Canadians. I think this is pretty silly/stupid, but have to admit that it IS art.

It sure as hell got us talking.

>, when you wrote "seeing" did you really mean to say "stalking"?

It's peoples money and they can do what they want with it...but you have to wonder if the money donated or the PS3 itself coundn't have served a better purpose by going to a charity or a children's hospital. Especially with the holiday season coming up......

There's going to be more of an outrage from people when they smash a Revolution.

And I will laugh at them. Losers.

...People are giving them money to smash a game console. If he suddenly took that money and donated it to charity or something, those who donated would be pissed because the money they gave him wasn't used how they thought it would be. Same with him just selling the PS3 on eBay. Obviously, the donations would stop if they did something like that.

Stop saying "They should've done this and screwed over their loyal donators."

"but you have to wonder if the money donated or the PS3 itself coundn't have served a better purpose by going to a charity or a children's hospital. Especially with the holiday season coming up....."

I really don't want to defend these guys too much, but..Couldn't everyone who have buys a PS3, or a Wii for that matter, spent their money better? At least half those people are going to auction it, and these people are acting like jackasses to sell more ad space. Everyone could be more charitable.

Actually, smashing a PS3 DOES hurt Sony. Remember, on every PS3 they crank out, Sony is losing a good chunk of change. As they operate on the razor/razor-blade model, they're hoping to recoup that on games and accessories. Taking the hammer to it keeps them from doing so."

Actuallly Sony just got a lot of publicity for the paltry difference between the the cost to produce the smashed unit and what they sold it for. And remember, there really is no such thing as bad publicity

I can't wait to see SmashMyWii only to see what's inside of it and how if it holds to the standards that the Gamecube had which could be drug down the street by a truck and still work just perfectly. I doubt after this kind of beating it would work, but the DS took a pretty big beatin' and still held together for a good amount of time.

I doubt it,

Wii is plentiful. Even if some guy smashes one, they'll be more inside or coming on a truck in a week.

Oh, this is just great, a bunch of office-chair psychiatrists on Joystiq trying to psycho-analyze a few guys smashing a game console to bits.

They did it with other consoles and they'll do it to your favorite console as well.

Just shut up and revel in the joy of destruction...Or not...

Either way, just shut up.

"I really don't want to defend these guys too much, but..Couldn't everyone who have buys a PS3, or a Wii for that matter, spent their money better? At least half those people are going to auction it, and these people are acting like jackasses to sell more ad space. Everyone could be more charitable."

Very true. We all have our entertainment dollars to spend one way or the other. But there is value in the PS3 in the short term....maybe better to buy this one..sell it on Ebay...donate the profits...then buy another one and then smash that one...lol

For any PS3 fan who is outraged or upset...were you this upset when the 360 got smashed by a similar group last year? lol

"I doubt it,

Wii is plentiful. Even if some guy smashes one, they'll be more inside or coming on a truck in a week."

Yeah..tell that to these "starting bid: $600" folk:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=Wii

Funny thing is, I managed to track down the guy who started this whole thing. Saw him walk out of a store with his family and a new puppy. Well I had a friend video tape me smash the puppy right in front of his family. Their reaction was priceless! The dude thought it was funny too, considering he is best known for doing that kinda thing. We spent the rest of the day at his house smashing everything he owned. He has no family now either. Oh well...smash, smash, SMASH!

This is stupid and childish.

If you want to hurt the fanboys camping out for PS3s, why not get your hands on one and then just sell it for a ridiculous amount? I see $1000 or so alot more satisfying than smashing some plastic.

I will,

They won't sell for that. Its not rare enough and not hyped enough.

I don't like the PS3 at all, but this is still BS. What a waste of money that they could have donated to a real cause.

I think this calls for a moment of silence and a kick in the groin to those responsible. (Destroying any console is a stupid idea. That money should have gone to a local charity instead of mindless shit like this)

Hrm... SmashMyWii... Knowing Nintendo, that's going to take a damn good smashing to do any damage.

31. @ 25:

"The PS3 smashers are Canadian."

Posted at 1:53PM on Nov 17th 2006 by dvnt

Haha. What a tool.

at least it was the 20 gig model

Anyone who is against this has some kind of mental defficiency. The VERY SAME defficiency that would cause people to quit their jobs and run into poles and shoot people, and ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE SHOT BY WITHOLDING THE MONEY over a CONSOLE....A CONSOLE.....worth taking a bullet for? Yeah these ppl must really love Resistance...and...oh yeah there are no other games...

so when someone points it out and says YOU'RE ALL FUCKING RETARDED FOR RISKING RUINING YOUR LIVES TO GET A CONSOLE AT LAUNCH instead of waiting 6 months or whatever like SANE people...or buying a 360 for most of the same games (without the kiss of hot lead waiting in line)...
Maybe it will sink in that these people are wasting their lives. No matter how much you love this thing, what a waste of life. With ~80-90 years on this planet (if you're lucky) you're going to waste 2 days literally watching the sidewalk erode, maybe you should reevaluate your priorities. It's a fucking game.

two words

Attention Whore's

Even though I hate Sony, I wouldn't endorse the destruction of a VERY shiny piece of technology. FOR SHAME!

STILL WAITING FOR GOLDEN SUN 3 DAMMIT!

"They won't sell for that. Its not rare enough and not hyped enough."

Idiots are still bidding.

"Destroying any console is a stupid idea."

Destroying a Jaguar is the most satisfying feeling in the world.

Those people are sick, twisted and evil and so are those who donated to them.
Imagine how far $600 would have went to a homeless person, someone starving to death in Africa or a child soldier somewhere...
So so thoughtless...

that was f*cking helarious... social comentary aside, i laughed out loud when he did the jumping sledgehammer smash.

75. "I think this calls for a moment of silence and a kick in the groin to those responsible. (Destroying any console is a stupid idea. That money should have gone to a local charity instead of mindless shit like this)"


OOORRRR....why not ALL those ~200 000 people wasting their money on a GAME could spend that money and feed starving children...or save the wales.... or anything. Same argument dude. Society = greed. Why don't we spend ALL our free dollars on helping others? These guys are showing us a mirror man. Hell most of these 200 000 ps3's will probably break down do to rushed production just like la ps2

" 22. Assholes. It's awesome that our society has reached a point where we are so gluttonous that people take pleasure from the wanton destruction of valued goods. How bout taking those donations and using the money to help your fellow man instead of flushing it away. "

Valued...it's that whole "One man's junk is another man's treasure." To me, the PS3 has no value at all. Maybe in a year when they work out all the bugs maybe, but definately not now. Not to mention the ridiculousness of the vultures, I mean people, who line up for hours and days on end to make a buck.

Which leads me to your statement of "How bout taking those donations and using the money to help your fellow man instead of flushing it away." Yeah, right on! Take that $650 and help someone who quit their job to stand in line for 2 weeks to get a PS3. Because that unemployed person won't have a home to play their PS3 in, food to eat, gas for their car...but damn, they have a PS3 and someone taking donations for them until they get processed into the system and collect their unemployment check. Or better still, the 90% plus people standing in line, beating people up, robbing stores and such to make 3x or more their money back. Hey Smash people, you should be ashamed of not ripping people off. Beating them. Trampling others. ... ... ...

Getting Digged is always worth a smashed PS3... if you happen to be an attention whore.

Talk about pathetic losers (the smashers, not Joystiq readers)

I must say, after having lived in both Europe (In Guildford, outside of London) and America, I find it difficult to understand why anyone would try and claim superiority over the other.

In my experience, at least, Europeans and Americans are very much the same. What you seem to be describing as the "typical American" is not someone most Americans would even begin to accept as one of their own.

What if I was to say that the "typical European" is the drunkard, who stands around in the liquor store all day? It would be blatantly wrong, and insults those who choose to believe in the greatness of their own nation.

What you are describing as "America" is not truly America at all; to me, America is less of a place and more of an ideal. You aren't an American unless you choose to follow that ideal.

Say what you will, but there is a moral nature in America; a nature that I refuse to let die, despite insistance for the power of the "personal right" in comparison to "Personal responsibility".

But whatever. I suppose it was pretty cool watching a PS3 get blown to hell.

What they are smashing makes no difference. I don't really care. I'm talking about the motivation behind the actions. Wanting/desiring to make others feel bad is just wrong regardless of how often it happens in this world.

lol...it's funny how many time the guy had to smash it to make the PS3 look all messed up. Probably the HUGE metallic heatsink inside supoorted the casing too

@ #23
""They'd have to be getting a hell of alot of advertising clickthroughs to make up the $1400+ profit they'd get from selling that bad boy on eBay. I'd have to guess they'd need around a million views just to have a chance at sniffing that kind of money.""

@ #31
""It saddens me that people take delight in other people's misery.

It is only a game machine and shouldn't be coveted, I agree, but when your goal is to make people feel awful, I have to question your worth as a human being.
As mentioned in the article, they have donor dollars footing the expense""

how about all the ppl with their, "YES, I'm garaunteed a PS3" or "YOu're a fucking retard" attitudes on Joystiq?

If the Wii is anything like the Gamecube, it'll still work even after its smashed.

I usually don't curse-But they are some dumb asses!! It could have been sold for 5 times as much on e-bay.

@31, 38:

When did the United States get full rights to the term 'America'? Did we trademark it yet?