Publisher-choice DRM is basically Online Passes. That's it, there's no additional benefits.

This, exactly. I feel like the future is getting pushed back, and all we're getting this generation is a spec'd up last gen. Shameful.

Yeah, hooray for innovations, amirite? :D

Damn. The stuff the reverted, I didn't mind. Always online, reselling games, that's all whatever.

If you've got a stock HDD, you should be fine. Early reports indicate it only bother PS3s with upgraded HDDs.

I used it once, hated it. It didn't crash, but it was much worse than 2k

Eh, Vista was nasty but still usable. By the smallest of standards, but still lol

Hey, you dopey cunt, RRoD's are hardware failures, normally due to improper cooling and general mishandling. Certainly not due to a software update, and 9/10 due to improper care by the owner.

congratulations you are continuing to force a dead and obsoleted joke

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Really? Unlucky you... I don't have to count the number of times I've had to reinstall Windows due to crashes, as I've never had to.

Oh really? Because I'm using Windows 8 on the PC that I'm typing this up on right now. Lookie here! Its fully functional!

The fact that I hadn't heard about it makes me believe MS handled it very well :p

I dunno, when I read about a bricked system, that means its unusable, which would imply that it can't receive any new updates (by conventional means, anyways) to undo the damage.

Funky business. I'd be curious to do a postmortem on the whole thing, but it sounds like you're all set now?

OK...except it hasn't on the 360, and nobody was talking about the X1 or the 360.

Haha I know a few people that still want the old old blade interface back.

This is true :)

I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at here...

Yeah, and all modern Windows installations have a recovery partition that it automatically makes, plus an option, while undesirable, to start from scratch.