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Forums - Sony Discussion - Squilliam got his ps3 back!

Domicinator said:
Hephaestos said:
yeah despite what you heard, it's not 0.000000001% but at least 1-3% defect rate like most electronics....

 

I'm starting to think that's a little low at the moment.  There have been a lot of "my ps3 broke" threads popping up lately....here and everywhere else.  Most of them seem to have to do with bad lasers, but are some total hardware failures in the mix too.  I don't think the PS3 is necessarily the epitomy of quality control as many would have you believe.  Sounds like it's just about as likely as the PS2 to have lasers go bad.

 

Mine was a result of the disc drive's motor breaking.  The discs just wouldn't spin.

From what I've seen, most people's problems are pretty sporadic, and they range from bad lasers, bad motors, and lenses going out of alignment to firmware corruption and total bricking.