PS3

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2011–2024), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with PS3, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 10 complaints

Store feels slow and practically unusable because it renders a web UI2024-10-01
Cell Broadband Engine is unintuitive to program, so it was a poor choice for learning parallel programming2022-01-20
Has to be manually adjusted for daylight saving time2018-02-06
Users watch slow software update progress bars for long periods instead of playing games2016-04-30
PS3 interface is poor and it keeps forcing update downloads2014-04-02
Updates can't be postponed or run in background, blocking device use for half an hour2014-02-26
Must wait through repeated OS and game updates before playing a game that worked before2013-04-08
Home screen starts on the Sony store, forcing users to navigate several slots to reach games2013-02-21
Hard for developers: manual DMA handling and tight memory limits make it difficult to program2013-02-18
Forced software updates every time the console turns on before launching Netflix2012-07-30