Sony has everyone covered up to a million if anything even happens, so it's basically psn being down versus having your console get fried and have a 1 in 2 chance of being under warrenty 2-3 years later, I think the second one is worse

RROD never ended three years ago. The warranty was put into place after a couple years of denial from Microsoft. RROD still plagues gamers and if you know about the store Play N Trade they'll tell ya. Play N Trade is like Gamestop and are all over the US, but unlike Gamestop you can play your games in-store and have them fix your consoles. 360's piled up to the heavens back then and still do today. Thank goodness for the new slims.

Slim fixed all that and the later phat models had much less chance to RROD, hell i have yet to hear of one that was manufactured in 2009, that has broken down. In 2007 RROD was a huge thing, today its basically like YLOD; it happens, but not to many people (unless you got an old console).

If you have a fat PS3 (i do) i would be much more worried about that than a 360 thats from 2009 and forth as you still within the warranty plus they are better made than the fiasco that was the first models. If you are going out to buy a new console today, both are fine and you should not have a problem with them except maybe with the drives, but since games can be played from the HDD on both consoles now days, you shouldn't have to worry about that either.

It also depends on if someone comes up with a catchy name for the PSN downage.  RROD has a cool ring, and people repeat it.  Plus the total amount of damage to people’s privacy – which is yet to be seen.

“Oh no! Not the Sony Anon-A-Net?”

 (Remember the SAAN of 2011-2012?)

RROD is still an issue which is far above YLOD (even though that is increasing). Go to any store in your town that fixes used and trades games systems. There are plenty of Play N Trades stores all over the country and they will tell you the same. Play N Trade is like Gamestop, but they fix your consoles as well. They also let you play the full games of anyting they have in-store on the console ahead of time to try out a future purchase. They charge for convenience so you dont have to wait like crazy to your system back from Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo. If fixes are slow they can fix your system in a day, but if they have a ton of 360's (usually the case) it could take like two weeks. I've been going to Play N Trade for the past two years from college and back home and have been to about five of them. The majority of their broken consoles are non-slim 360's. I've seen a couple stores with 360's waiting to be fixed up taking door spaces. That was the volume.

I believe they do not need to have your CC to get your identity stolen. All they need is the basics like name, birthdate, address, email, etc. which was compromise. If you didn't know SOE did tell everyone that 12,700 Credit cards were compromised, but only 900 were still active. That is still potentially 900 that could get their CC stolen along with their personal data.  

Those are all used systems, do you think there are many 360 bought manufactured in 2009 that have already been resold? I am not denying that RROD still is a problem however, i am just saying if you bought a new console for the past 2 years you should be safe (especially with the slim model). If you have an earlier console then you probably already RROD by now, which means you have a refurb which are pretty good i must say, i got one myself and it is yet to break "Touches Wood".

PS3 that are sold old are also pretty bad, not 360 bad, but you should stay away from them nonetheless. RROD just has a more bitter taste on our tongue because of how big problem it used to be.