Ok - Heres some data points for ya'll.
If the PS3 has less than a 5% actually failure rate beat me over the head with my dead PS3 and call me a bad man!
Destop PCs experience about a 5% failure rate and they are simper designs built with both higher tolerances and older more robust technologies. 5" drives vs 3" drives and simpler optical technology vs Blu Ray.
"PCs are more reliable than they used to be, market watcher Gartner has claimed. Desktops and notebooks bought in the period 2003-2004 were more likely to experience hardware failures than those purchased in 2005 and 2006, the researcher said this week.
Gartner records a hardware failure as any incident that requires a component to be replaced. Unsurprisingly, vendors like to keep the numbers private, but Gartner said it gleaned enough data from third-parties and its clients to put a number to failure rates.
First, desktops. Systems bought in 2003 and 2004 had a seven per cent likelihood of failure in the first year, rising to 15 per cent by the fourth year of usage. The year-one failure rate fell to five per cent for systems bought in 2005 and 2006, Gartner said. It's projecting a year-four failure rate of 12 per cent for these machines."
So I would need to see data which explicitly proves that the PS3 can exceed the reliability of a desktop PC when its a far more complicated design.
So for now 5% is what im gonna stick to.
Tease.
