According to a PR representative from who spoke with Destructoid they do. There have been many reports of freezing PlayStation 3 demo stands, and when Destructoid got a chance to talk to a Sony PR sales representative they didn’t give it up.

“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.”

So there you have it, next time you are in a game retailing store and the console freezes up on you, then just remember that Sony did that on purpose as a clever scheme to stop people playing on it for hours.

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