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nightsurge on 29 June 2009
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Feylic said:
Squilliam said:
Feylic said:
nightsurge said:
Feylic said:
Wii 1%
PS3 2%
360 33%

Stop being so ignorant people. See squilliam's post above.

If we go by launch figures it is probably a lot like:

Wii 3%
PS3 20%
360 40%

If we go by current state:

Wii 1%
PS3 3%
360 5% or less

How am I being ignorant and you aren't? or Squilliam isn't? Were is the proof that the PS3 is way higher than everyone thinks? We know the 360 had a bad failure rate because of all the publicity it got, and lawsuits, and they themselves extending the warranty because of the failure rate. But where is all this proof for the PS3? A couple forum posts by angry people doesn't equal a 20% failure rate...

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.

 

edit: for yo_john117

I tried googling it, and found no major news articles about it, only forums posts, or gaming related websites with video's of people's ylod's. An interesting thing I did find, was that ylod yields 69,100 hits on google, while rrod gets 826,000. If you complain that that is unfair because rrod was only an early 360 problem, then see these results for hits from the past year only, which were 15,100 for ylod, and 143,000 for rrod.

So you are saying that I can't use anecdotal evidence (or squilliam) or think that the PS3 has a higher failure rate based on that, but other people can think it has a lower failure rate based on their anecdotal evidence?

you nee some serious proof to say that the ps3 has a failure rate much higher than most people think

How do you determine what most people think the failure rate is?

I am by no means saying it is anywhere near as bad as RROD was, but it is definitely a lot worse than 3% and is quite prevalent.  It actually ends up having worse results because they often get YLOD after their year warranty is up and that's $150 repair fee.

No one can really accurately tell what the PS3 early failure rate was, but it was assuredly above 3%.  It may have been less than 20%.  I was doing a worst case scenario for all 3.  10-15% is most likely.  What you really need to focus on is the current hardware revision stats.  I have still to hear of any Jasper 360's failing, so it is safe to say that 360's newly bought are now in the normal 1-3% failure rate along with the Wii and PS3.