| sethnintendo said: Funny how all have started attacking the hardware reliability. Face it PS1, PS2, and 360 have pretty bad reliability. Sure PS1 and PS2 sold a lot but how many were repurchases? Same goes for 360.. PS1 had overheating issues in the first generation systems (I know this because I was one of the first generation buyers who experienced overheating). PS2 had DVD drive issues. No console is immune to reliability issues but Nintendo does stand above others in previous and current generations. Both Sony and Microsoft denied reliability issues at the start then accepted them. |
Sony never extended warranties like Microsoft has though. The only way you got anything from Sony when your PS1 fried or your PS2 stopped reading CDs (outside the warranty period) was if you joined one of the multiple class action lawsuits.
Microsoft certainly did wrong by consumers with RROD, but in the end they went some ways towards making amends and at a heavy cost. That's more than can be said for Sony historically, they've never acknowledged any deficiency in any PlayStation hardware afaik, much less accepted culpability in it.
Nintendo really is in a class of their own though. Not only do they acknowledge and accept pretty much any real hardware issue (DS Lite hinges cracking, Hollywood overheating, etc) they'll always fix it at their expense for free, even outside warranty periods in most cases (and then they'll usually extend the warranty too).
