Where did all these Microsoft fans come from?

[Michael-5]

STRYKIE said:

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'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*

It's very very rare to have hardware issues with Nintendo products, but not impossible. There is still a 0.2% fail rate, you just got real unlucky and got that 1 Wii in 500 that was defective. You don't need to be able to identify a specific error, just need to read and understand statistics, Nintendo systems can fail too, it's just super rare.

I had a close friend who used to repair 6th gen consoles (and then 7th gen ones), and he told me in 5 years of working, he only ever saw 1 Wii come in, and it was because a kid chucked it at the wall, and it physically opened up.