kingofwale said: >Actually we can. Microsoft made it clear by reserving 1 billion dollars for RRoD issues, which means they expect having to repair millions of 360s. That's Microsoft's money put aside for it. It doesn't mean all the money will be used or if there will be needing any additional money. Or even how much it cost for a single 360 to be repaired. So for that, it's impossible to accurately estimate the failure rate.

Companies are not allowed to make reservations if they don't expect to actually need to money. And it really doesn't matter whether it is 10%, 15%, 25% or 50%, when millions of consoles have the problem it is an unacceptable number. And about the Wii problem, unless it is a widespread issue there really is no reason to compare it to the RRoD. Actually, I'm sure all 3 consoles will have some disk reading malfunctions and other issues as well. The only reason why Microsoft is being grilled over RRoD is the extent of the problem and the fact they first denied the issue instead of taking responsibility.

kingofwale is the most obvious troll on this board

he spends his days making anti-wii posts

he's just mad because the wii will sell more in 2008 alone than ps3 will sell in 2006+2007+2008 combined

RRoD=useless brick

WPB=One game you can't play while the rest you can.

RolStoppable said: What exactly are you trying to say?

 The PS3 is better than the Wii and 360?

Anyways, WPB is an incredibly minor issue (unless of course it happens to you) since it happens on a very small amount of consoles. 

I hope mine doesn't have this problem. I'll find out tomorrow when I pick it up.

I'm really surprised legend11 didn't start this thread.

A dirty lens is not comparable to a malfunctioning console, nice try trollofwale. DVD-9 problems are hardly new, or am I one of the few people here that actually had a PS2?

hasnt microsoft been fixing RRoD'ed consoles from day 1 when you send them in? didnt they increase the warranty to 3 years? those type of actions get Nintendo a get out of jail card but not Microsoft.

Microsoft has many other reasons people have hate for them. And RRod is a huge problem for the XBox - even if they fix them when they break and extend the warranty.

This is the first I have heard about the Wii and WPB problems. Could this be MUCH more widespread when its released worldwide?

I'll try to sum this up as best I can:

The amount of anger directed toward Microsoft is an order of magnitude greater than the amount of anger directed toward Nintendo because the RROD (and MS's handling of it) are an order of magnitude worse than WPB and Nintendo's handling of it. 

and what does ps3 have?? no problems=))))

even if this was a real problem, you would have never seens  an outrage such as we saw against the 360. As you should have known already, just like Apple, Nitendo has the most loyal fans, for good reasons too. They have great customer service and are quick to fix any problem.