They're gonna need another fan to cool that one!

12 V * 1.3 A = 15.6 W, almost as much as the whole Wii just for the fan! lol

yes, it supports 100-240V

I highly disagree. I think as far as gaming hardware, Sony has a questionable history.

DREs plagued early PS2's just as much as RRoD does the early 360s, after a couple years of aging. The launch PS1 used plastic for a slider rail, rather than metal, which of course, melted eventually, and cause the console to brick. The PSP slims launched with large numbers of dead pixils, and the PS2 slim's launch was marred by a design flaw which cause the machine to overheat. Even the early PS3 models are prone to overheating with eventual RRoD type extensive hardware failure.

On the other hand, Nintendo has been making quality hardware without need for revisions for a long time.

If my NES still plays, then how is Sony the king of hardware, seriously? Remember the gamecube? That machine was designed to withstand impact. Seriously. Real, impact.

Nintendo has, and probably always will produce more reliable hardware than Sony, in my opinion.

I know you don't care, and this is purely a solo experience, but my Gamecube broke. Stopped reading discs (although this was in 2007, and it was a launch model).

I haven't looked into any other system teardowns yet, but it's a questionable design practice to have the power supply dissipating heat INTO the system (right at the air intake). I'm sure the fan is an attempt to compensate for this intake heat.

I have to disagree with you Zen, Nintendo of course is a great company but they have had their faults too.
Of course the front loading NES would mess up you know that.
Plus I have had experiences with 3 different GameCubes and each of them have their own problems, disc read errors ftl!

Google the gamecube disc read errors, they were very common.
If I wipe the disc a little and the inside of the GameCube then it temporarily fixes it but it has it's problems as well.

Every company has their share of mess ups, what do you expect? A widespread 100% perfect hardware?

you abit exaggerating things, sony had problems, so have nintendo, and went noticeable with brawl.

but not a single company have problems such as microsoft with it console.

they just can't build reliable hardware,

even if early ps3 have problems even like that still way lower than 6%.

compared to crazy 60% of microsoft, things break, thats a given for everything, but never to such a crazy output.

Xoj wasn't the Xbox pretty reliable?

it had it shares of problems too, the power source was prone to die, and the power cable to burn.

microsoft then changed the cable, if the power sourced die it didn't burn, but microsoft never fixed the problem.

http://kotaku.com/263486/lawsuit-alleges-xbox-killed-baby

of course microsoft recalled 14 million unit in 2005, but the fire was in 2004.

Yeah, MS' consoles suck, but my most failure prone console has been the PS2, with a whopping 3 purchases of the sucker.

Anyway, I still think Nintendo make the best consoles, from a design perspective, but there is no way I was gonna let the sony asskissing go on, as if they are the angels of console design. They have had way more widespread problems than Nintendo in less time, and at the very least, they aren't perfect as some people(probably people who never owned a Playstation before the PS3) seem to believe.