Microsoft and their dang hardware!

[Squilliam]

jagenjg said:

Squilliam said:

Does the 'fact' that the modern PS3 can still YLOD mean that Sony have gone backwards in hardware quality?

Why is it that the people who've had PS3 failures and often out of pocket are calm and reasonable (the honest ones) and the people who've had the Xbox 360 faults repaired for free spitting venom and hate everywhere? This is something I don't understand personally...

If you want a 10 year console buy a Wii, anything else is suspect especially expecting 10 years of use.

Personally I feel very lucky.  My PS3 bricked in just under a year.  It blew up after 11 months, and I got it repaired for free.  Can neglect kill a console, as in I hardly turn it on, kill the console?  Yes my Falcon 360 died too (RROD), but I was only upset when my PS3 died.  Just for the fact that I never use it on.  360 died and I was like hey look at that, it happened to me.  Called up MS and they asked a few questions and told me to send it in via UPS for faster responce.  I had it back in 5 days.

Basically Sony and Mircosoft both cut as many corners as they can get away with when manufacturing a console to save money.  They build them as cheap as they can and that means quality suffers for it.  Luck plays a large factor into if your console will brick or not.

I suspect its not just cheapness though. A lot of the newer materials which are better for the environment have a lower durability. Nvidia suffered a similar problem to Microsofts RROD and have paid out 300M thus far. Its more that the devices themselves are too complicated and have numerous points of failure. Its more they pushed the performance too far, your Xbox 360s and PS3s have an internal volume in proportion to a laptop and a power useage similar to a high end desktop with no real power-play or throttling of any kind to conserve power and reduce heat in idle.