nordlead on 14 December 2009
no, Sony has built crappy hardware before (disc read errors on both the PS1 and original PS2) so I wouldn't be surprised if the first generation of PS3 hardware had issues. Sony seems to do a lot better on the later revisions. Also, the PS3 seems more reliable than the PS1/2.
@Hus
Microsoft put a time bomb in DirectX for .NET. It caused a lot of headaches at my work because we were using it. I wouldn't put it past some of the big companies to pull that stunt. Heck, Sony built a backdoor into every PC that listened to Sony published music.
