Nintendo Sandbagging the Wii

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Dryden said:

darklich13 said:
Xbox 360 gets the ring of death because Mircrsoft was trying to cut costs of they system and included an inferior cooling system. The motherboard get super hot and warps. Causing the chips to "pop out". The Wii is simply designed and would not have any problems like that if Nintendo ramped up production to meet demand.

Not true. The Wii currently does have reliability issues, caused either by faulty firmware which doesn't power the cooling fan while the WiFi card runs at night, a bad graphics processors, bad graphic memory, other inadequate cooling or maybe even something else. Nobody but Nintendo knows what the real deal is and exactly why Wii are failing in under a year of ownership, regardless of hours put on the machine -- but people have had their Wii's fail with slowly degrading video quality.

My Wii is at Nintendo right now getting fixed for this very issue. Video artifacts and colored dots all over the screen similar to dead pixels on an LCD screen.

 All electronics have a failure rate.  The Wiis failure rate is extremely low.  Something around 3% I believe.  Nowhere close to having 'reliability issues'.  Compare that to the estimated 33% failure rate of the Xbox 360.  I don't know what the PS3 failure rate is, but it appears to be much more reliable than the PS2.  The PS2 was extremely prone to failure for a long time.  Nintendo has always made quality products that last a long time.