Happened to me. Not sure where the notion comes from where Sony magically decides whether or not their system is reliable or not.

But hey, I guess if a system doesn't outright spell "disc read error" for you, then it doesn't have disc read errors.

Whats the point in having 500gb if you can only put ten or so games on it? If Sony knew this would happen they should of put at least 2TB in the console to start with. But, why do we suddenly need to install everything on the disc? PS3 games had relatively small installs (most less than 5gb each) and most games in the end were over 20gb. Uncharted 3 most of been 50gb but had us install only 1gb. Hell, GTA V had those amazing graphics and huge world to load and yet needed only 8gb to install to run well. Surely, blu-ray isn't that slow.  

I guess i'm waiting a little while for PS4 to get a bigger hard drive. 

You can buy and install a HDD yourself, it looks like they've made it as easy as changing a laptop HDD if not easier. You can even get a SSD/HDD hybrid to further speed up load times.

As for the other stuff, did you miss the bit about having masses of data this gen? The size of assets will have increased hugely whilst optical drives haven't kept pace. The less devs have to worry about whether a certain object will load in time is more time that can be spent actually making a great game.

Because it's that easy just throwing in a $80 harddrive....Suddenly that $399 gets blown out the water. 

"But, why do we suddenly need to install everything on the disc? PS3 games had relatively small installs"

Because of technical evolution, duh. PS3 also didn't play most games at 1080p and had way smaller textures. 

" Hell, GTA V had those amazing graphics"

But not next-gen graphics. Lets get real, your complaining that something new is doing something different from something old. Take a guess as to why that is. 

What if i don't want to open up my brand new console which cost me £350? That is a lot of money down the drain if something were to go wrong, given that chance. 

I just don't get why we suddenly have to install every file in the game. This is a PC. Or at least i didn't think it was. Take, Call of Duty Ghosts for example. No install on X360, PS3 or Wii U. 49gb install on X1 and Ps4 and 40gb on pc. How the fuck is that possible?! These are only the first games on PS4 and X1 and yet have massive installs already. I dread to think what install sizes games like Uncharted or a future GTA will be. My point is the installs shouldn't be so large given that we start off with 'just' 500gb. I don't care if there is more detail to be honest, the next gen games certainly don't look much better as of yet. 

You don't use your warranty changing the HDD. And it ain't that hard.

Removing standard HDD:

Inserting new HDD: same pictures, but reverse order (from bottom to top).

So they can force DRM by treating ALL games as digital games.

MSony backed away at launch, but it will return unfortunately.