The PS3 Error 80010514 rate is 2% to 4%

[shams]

TheRealMafoo said:

shams said:
I don't believe 2%-4% of PS3s have this error - that would almost be an epidemic.

10m PS3 --> 300,000 faulty consoles due to this error alone.

2-4% of hard drives fail. How do you explain the ones in the PS3 not? If it makes you feel any better, the same rate fail in the 360.

Hard drives fail. It's a fact of life.

Yes - they fail.

But over what time period? You don't get a 2-4%  failure rate "instantanously" - that is why there is a QA department, and why there is a quality control procedure for hardware manufacturing companies. There is NO way that 3% of hard drives put into new PS3s are "faulty" - just no way.

If you are saying that 3% of all hard drives fail over a period of say - 4 years - then I completely agree with you. Then within 3 years, 3% of launch PS3s will have failed for this reason. This I agree with.