Nintendo Sandbagging the Wii

[Nighteyes_1981]

Dryden said:

Nighteyes_1981 said:

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.

According to whom? Where did you get these numbers for failure rates?

Even if the Wii's failure rate is only 3%, I would find that disconcerting considering the most widely reported issue is the GPU failure, and not something with a moving part (I could completely understand optical drive failures after hundreds of hours of use).

 3% is the number I remembered reading, which is apparently high according to the article rasone77 linked.  3-5% is basically the eletronics industry standard acceptable failure rate.  When you have sold 10 million units of anything, 30,000 failures isn't actually that much.  So all things considered, the Wii has extremely reliable hardware.