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Michael-5 said:

Sony's okay, but not good, I read the original fat PS3's have between a 10-22% fail rate, which is decently high. I owned a PS ever since the PS1, and every system has broken on me once. However to be fair, a typical 360 lasts me 1-2 years. A Typical playstation lasts me 4-8 years. A typical Nintendo is forever (still yet to break one). Wright is right, if you really cared about reliability, Nintendo would always be your first choice.

I went from PS to XB last gen because I was sick on my PS's breaking on me.....boy did I mess up....

Next gen, I'm getting a WiiU first, and then a PS4 when a Slim model releases, and then an XBO when they announce 9th gen consoles. My PC can play XBO games, and I don't see too many exclusives releasing for the XBO and not the PC. Very excited for Titanfall.

I've had hardware failures with the Wii (more so than the PS3 or 360, oddly enough) and SNES. The NES is known for the 72-pin fault. The only one that didn't have a unanimous hardware fault was the N64, and that's most likely because it didn't have any moving parts whatsoever.

But hey, I guess a system needs to spell out the specific error for you on a silver platter before it's deemed unreliable. *shrugs*