http://www.destructoid.com/playstation-3-kiosks-freezing-up-on-purpose–28860.phtml
Hahahah…
Interesting. Mine hasn’t locked up during game play and my controllers have never disconnected.
Ffs, it’s filtered as nudity. Could someone be so kind to quote the article please. 
" Have you ever spent any time in a Best Buy, EB Games, or GameStop playing their PlayStation 3 demo unit and have it freeze up on you? No, you haven’t… or so I was told by a Sony rep a few days back. Read on to find out more. Just before the launch of the PlayStation 3, I walked into a local EB Games and noticed that they had finally (three days prior to launch) received their demo kiosk. Problem was, it was turned off. Right next to the hulking beast of a setup, two teenagers were wailing on “You Really Got Me,” the Guitar Hero II demo, and the PlayStation 2 was in full force.
Curious, I asked the annoyed, bored-looking clerk why anyone would dare do something like turn off a PlayStation 3 (The penalty for such an offense? Death, in some states).
“Well,” he sighed, “it’s locked up on us about five times. And we got it this morning.”
He explained to me how when the machine would freeze, he would have to unlock the kiosk and hard reset the machine – every time. It was easier, he said, to just leave it off and let people drool all over the protective plastic that housed what appeared to be an empty shell of a PlayStation 3 – if you don’t know, the actual unit is housed below the kiosk and is not visible. This, to me, was a fine explanation, and not surprising considering reports I’ve heard of units freezing at trade shows; and hey, the damned thing is cased in metal with little or no ventilation. I’ll let it slide.
Cut to a busy Christmas Eve: The same EB Games is bustling with last minute shoppers; a child knocks over a World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade promotional display; frantic mothers blather on about games they can’t remember the names of; and in the middle of it all I spotted a Sony PlayStation retail rep frantically cleaning off the very same kiosk I had mentioned earlier. I wasn’t going to let him get away.
“Happy Holidays,” I said.
“Oh, hi! I’ll be done here in one second and then I’ll turn on the unit so you can get a glimpse of the future.”
“Oh, I know all about it,” I said, trying not to laugh. “I have the future at home. In my closet. Still in the box. Trying to sell it. No takers.”
After a short, awkward silence, I decided to go in for the kill.
“So dude over there,” I said pointing to the busy clerk, “says he keeps the kiosk off because it keeps freezing up.”
“Nope. No it doesn’t.”
“Well, actually, yeah. It does. I’ve seen it happen myself.”
“No. It doesn’t. We did that on purpose,” he said.
“You make the entire console lock up on purpose because … why?”
“We do that so that people won’t play it all day long,” he explained. “Specifically during Motorstorm, we made it freeze up a lot.”
I’m totally confused at this point, completely stunned at what I’m being told because it’s the stupidest thing I’d ever heard. I let him rattle on for a while, trying to convince me (and probably himself) that yes, Sony went out of their way to have their consoles lock up so that the masses will not spend hours upon hours basking in all its glory.
He went on about how a PlayStation 3 shouldn’t be hard to get now, and how they’re shipping them out of Japan daily. I waited for him to spill the beans on the Cell processor powered, mechanized laser-breathing dragon they use to import the consoles to the States, but he revealed nothing.
When the Sony rep was done and finally turned on the future, I decided to stick around and play some Motorstorm (which is pretty damned awesome). Didn’t freeze up on me once.
Later, I was told by a Best Buy employee that they were told the same thing – the locking up and freezing was intentional. So, if you’re sitting at home and your console locks up on you or your Bluetooth controllers aren’t performing the way they should be, don’t worry about it. It might be on purpose."
Sweet
Awesome, oddly enough I’ve seen two seprate demos at Wal-mart frozen. And another at circuit city the same way.
Saw it happen at the Blvd. Best Buy. But hey, its Sony and they can do whatever then want. If they want their new consoles to freeze periodically they can. Luckily for them, it didn’t require any extra engineering or planning.
haha it got filtered bc the title of the page is Hardcore Gaming.
I was playin the latest NBA game in a Walmart for 3-4 minutes when it froze up on me. It looked and played incredible until it turned into a useless peice of frozen crap
wow, thats retarded.
like it would be difficult for them to hard code into the promotional/kiosk boxes to just reset after a certain time playing a game… instead of just freezing up.
not for me no problems here and i love it
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Rep is full of shit.
Heat was a major issue in the stand and it was an issue with the 360 as well.
The PS3 soft resets from motorstorm if you play too long.
So Sony has copied somebody yet again? This time its Microsoft, with the “Its not a bug, its a feature” line. Good one.
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I always see the PS3 frozen in stores. Its because of it being confined. But I am hearing some people complain about it happenning at home. I’m sure they will need an additional cooling unit like 360 has.
The one in Best Buy froze up the first day we got it.
my wii has not shown any signs of heating up that much even after 10 hrs straight