Why PS3 and 360 drop dead for the same reasons

[welshbloke]

Reasonable said:
Pretty redundant. The core point mentioned holds true for most electronics.

I suspect PS3 does fail more than some imagine (certainly mine has!) but it seems unlikely to me that Sony would be able to dodge the trouble MS had if they were roughly equal in failure rate.

Clearly, the evidence suggests the PS3 remains much less susceptible to failure than the 360.

I think this held true for the early models, I would not be suprised if we compared failure rates since the introduction of the models that reportedly corrected the problem with PS3 failure rates over the same time frame it may be another story.

What does seem to be true is whether you own the 360 or the PS3 the level of failure is high when compared to other electrical consumer products. The PS3 failures seem to be gathering pace lately which seems to suggest the components fatigue is starting to bite eating away at the early reliability of the PS3. Unfortunately or luckily for PS3 owners it is unlikely to ever reach the catastrophic failure that forced Microsoft to bung a bil to one side and spend so much of designing the issue out.