What do you think the console fail rates are?

[Squilliam]

Feylic said:

Squilliam said:

You need some serious proof to say that any complicated electronics equipment has a 1-2% failure rate. Thats atypical especially knowing that the PS3 is a high thermal load and complicated piece of hardware, that has both an optical drive and mechanical HDD. Furthermore theres plenty of strong anecdotal proof to support this like for instance twesterms workplace had ~80 people recieving 40GB PS3s when they were just released and within about a year and a bit had ~10 failures.

and you nee some serious proof to say that the ps3 has a failure rate much higher than most people think. Your evidence also doesn't work, many people have many difference stories, and that doesn't mean they are true on a world wide scale. None of my friends have ever had a Wii or a PS3 die, does that mean they have a 0% failure rate? no. Almost all my friends have had their 360's die, does that mean it has a 99% failure rate? no.

 

Sample size: 80 vs however many friends you have. Its a substantial difference.

Its easy to say a Wii has a fractional failure rate because the hardware is cheap and mature and simple.

A 2% failure rate per year mean that the 4 key components (HDD, Blu Ray, Motherboard, PSU) each have a 0.5% chance of failure per year. The failure rate expected of an optical disk drive and HDD are both higher than 1% each.

http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_154164_11.html

Table 1
Average Annualized Failure Rates for Desktop and Notebook PCs (Percent)

	Systems Purchased in 2005-2006	Systems Purchased in 2003-2004
Desktops
Year 1	5	7
Year 4	*12	15
Notebooks
Year 1	15	20
Year 4	*22	28

* Projected

Now the PS3 uses more power in operation than your typical desktop, gathers dust like your typical desktop and has similar componentry to your typical PC but has a form factor and thermal profile more similar to a laptop. Therefore without specific evidence to the contrary its pretty easy to conclude that the PS3 will have a failure rate similar to a PC.

 

Systems Purchased in 2005-2006	Systems Purchased in 2003-2004
Desktops
Year 1	5	7
Year 4	*12	15
Notebooks
Year 1	15	20
Year 4	*22	28