It’s official, your much loved Playstation 3 could actually make you sick and the doctors now have an official term for it.
“Playstation Purpuraâ€
I did a quick definition lookup for Purpura and came up with
“any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleedingâ€
Now I don’t know about you but I prefer my subcutaneous to not be bleeding…
According to an article in an Australian medical newspaper, 6 Minutes, the disease has been discovered by Dermatologists in Melbourne who were confounded by a series of bruising they saw on the index fingers of a 16 year old boy.
At first they were worried that it was a sort of cancer but once the patient admitted to playing on his Playstation for a couple of hours everyday they figured it out pretty quickly.
The discolouration and bruising lined up perfectly to where each finger touched the controller and this constant abuse along with the vibration feedback (ironic isn’t it) was diagnosed as the cause of the Playstation Purpura.
The patient was told to cease and desist from gaming for a while and low and behold his condition has now cleared up with no side effects.
So there you have it, the PS3 really does do everything… even the things you don’t want it to do.
Source: 6 Minutes
[Thanks Doobiwan for the tip]Last Updated: May 6, 2010
mitas
May 6, 2010 at 10:53
is it not premature to state this based on only one case , while it might have been a combination of ps3 and *insert word here * , whose to say he was not on drugs or touching toilets because he was bord…..mmmmmmkAy
xMATTx
May 6, 2010 at 12:53
Haha, I agree with you Mitas! I dunno how they can say it the playstation for sure cos there must be hundreds of people who play way more than this kid who have nothing wrong with them…
Maybe the aussie kid just has weak hands…
Geoff
May 6, 2010 at 13:16
Sometimes i’m convinced rabid PS3 fanboyism is a disease…
daki-sama
May 7, 2010 at 22:26
@Geoff – it works both ways.
Geoff
May 7, 2010 at 23:12
This is true – Rabid fanboys of pretty much anything are idiots.
Gavin Mannion
May 11, 2010 at 06:29
If you line the scroll bar perfectly it looks like John Watson is about to decimate our fanboy friend with 2 shotgun shells :w00t:
wtf
May 11, 2010 at 04:22
Yeah… This one case with barely any study put into it was big enough to make a new disease or disorder… Save it for April Fools Day… Because not only are you not fooling anyone but you are probably going to attract hate because everyone will think this is BS.
Big Rob
May 11, 2010 at 05:03
LOL this is rather funny, I play my PS3 atleast 4-6 hrs a day and my hands are fine. I call a fail on the poor austrailain kid, I think they just have something against gaming, I mean seriously who bans left for dead 2, noobs thats who.
I dont think so
May 11, 2010 at 06:04
Nice attempt at a fear campaign. I have been playing games on the Playstation console since 1994. Never had a health related problem. This story must have been thought up by the same people that said a plane crashed into the pentagon and vaporized.
tarbis
May 11, 2010 at 07:38
Let me remind the people that made this article that April Fools was last month.
CJ
May 11, 2010 at 08:46
it does diseases, is old news m8
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7907489.stm
ooch85
May 11, 2010 at 15:06
I bet you this is some stupid plan cooked up by microsoft with the help of bill gates to make the Playstation 3 look bad!
I play more than 5 hours a day and I don’t see anything wrong with me. This is worse than an April Fool’s joke mate!
Gavin Mannion
May 11, 2010 at 15:14
I bet you that you are horribly wrong… since this could happen to 360 owners just as easily…
Hawke Becker
May 11, 2010 at 16:38
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Hawke Becker
May 11, 2010 at 16:42
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biasedBS
May 11, 2010 at 17:23
They almost confused a bruise with cancer….. dum dum dumb.
It was a Dermatologists, so this is hardly a disease. It’s a surface bruise, nothing more.
Now that Dreamcast controller… my fingers are still broken from that one… or the xbox burning down a house, now that is something fatal. Surface bruise=slow news day for fanboys.
Jordan
May 15, 2010 at 22:33
What about the people who spend most of their day 5 days a week typing on a keyboard?
Other than eventually getting carpal tunnel I don’t see why this is a big deal or why they even published it.
ashley
July 11, 2013 at 07:48
My boyfriend Was on the PlayStation 3 and I told him to get off it will make you stick. but he doesn’t listen he gets headach,stomachach he wants to play it let him I not talking to him anymore