PS3 warranty/protection plan question

when u buy a ps3 do u have to buy the store warranty/protection plan?

if u dont buy it can u still send it into sony to fix it if its broken?

lol, funny you should ask. bought my MGS4 bundle the other day and gamestop tried to sell me a $59.99 1 year extra warrenty. Ok? 1 year? Thats it?

How about i hit walmart up with their warrenty deal.

Walmart gives a two year service warrenty for your playstation 3 for 2 years, $29.99.

screw Gamestop.

lol, funny you should ask. bought my MGS4 bundle the other day and gamestop tried to sell me a $59.99 1 year extra warrenty. Ok? 1 year? Thats it?

How about i hit walmart up with their warrenty deal.

Walmart gives a two year service warrenty for your playstation 3 for 2 years, $29.99.

screw Gamestop.

CoreoVII

i got a 3 year from walmart for....humm...$40-50 :)

Having had my PS3 blu-ray drive stop working this weekend, and Sony charge me £99 to fix it, I'd recommend anyone reading this now to get the best value protection plan you can.

I've had my PS3 since UK launch (so about 2.5 years now) and to be fair, it's only just packed up - everything else still works (can play my videos through it etc), but it's less than ideal.

Sure, only people who've had trouble are going to be recommending protection plans like this, so I guess it depends how risk adverse you are as an individual, but when it comes back fixed in a month; I'm buying a 3 year protection plan.