Euphoria14 said:
I did one for Amazon last night in another thread. Of course though it was comparing ALL 1 star votes across all their PS4 bundles to the 1M total sold as reported by Sony. I mentioned that if Amazon is indeed an isolated incident it only equals out to ~.066% failure rate. Of course there will be more than just those, but no way is it around the 30-40% some were thinking at first.
From what I am seeing the reports only seemed to be incredibly widespread because SO many consoles were sold in such a short amount of time. Someone else also mentioned how Sony tech support said they had a waiting line of 800 calls about DOA consoles. Even then, if we bumped it up to 1,000 consoles DOA it would only be a 0.1% failure rate. Bump it to 10,000 consoles DOA and you're talking only 1%. |
Very true. Sony has also given out an official number of 0.4%. I would imagine after a few weeks it may jump to 1%, but that would still be a great number for any piece of HW. It's better than the PS3's launch, and I believe it matches or betters the Wii's launch. And MUCH better than the 360's ~33%-50% failure rate, though any launch can't be worse than that one. 
I just hope these same people blowing this out of proportion will be there for the Xbox One launch. Or will they stay relatively quiet?
