Yellow Light of Death is a massive difficulty with the Play Station 3. It started with Xbox when they started using cheap materials in their consoles and their systems started getting the Red Ring of Death. Now Microsoft was saving plenty of money by using inexpensive materials in the production and making a large amount of money by fixing races consoles for huge costs. Then Sony found out how good it was going for Microsoft they followed them and did the same. They started using inexpensive materials in their consoles and as a result we were given something that never existed in Play Station 1 or Play Station 2, the Yellow Light of Death. Now it turned out good for Sony as they are saving a ton on production and making a ton fixing peoples consoles but what about us, the shoppers.

We are told to ship the consoles to the mend centers and they will be fixed for us but here are some reasons that explain why this is a bad idea :

We have to take care of the shipping cost. Yup, that is right. Sony will cover the return shipping but we have to bear the price of sending it in.

If you have a warranty, shipping cost is the one thing you have got to worry about but if you ran out of guaranty then you have to pay $150 to get it fixed.

It takes fricking long for the thing to get back. Well 6 weeks to be specific. So what the heck are you going to do for one and a half month without a PS3?

You'll lose all of the info on your hard drive. Say Wha? Yes, Sony formats the drive before sending it back to you so that suggests you will have to redo all of the missions you already finished in MW2. Sucks, doesn't it?

And ultimately, the fix isn't permanent. You get a refurbished PS3 that can get the yellow light problem the very same day you get it back and then you have got to send it back, pay all that money and wait for six weeks AGAIN.