| FonzGemini said: I work at another Best Buy where we sold all our 35 PS3 slims. All customers were satisfied and encountered no problems at all. |
Good to hear bro, there is a Future Shop across the street from us...they sold about 30 slims!
my ps3 has over heated but they work after that (i had forgotten to open the drawers or w/e there called that it was in so it couldnt cool itself down...)
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30+30+35 = 95 slims sold in 3 locations. Oh my.
| Gearbox said: my ps3 has over heated but they work after that (i had forgotten to open the drawers or w/e there called that it was in so it couldnt cool itself down...) |
yeah i heard about this too, so did my old pc, but it survive because i let it cool off.
| numonex said: I believe Sony rushed the PS3 Slim because they were really desperate to stay alive in console sales war with the XBox 360. So Sony will outsell the 360 marginally for next year or two but at what cost? |
I believe that is complete garbage, and that Sony did not rush the Slim as they had been planning it for over year and steadily worked towards reducing the manufacturing costs.
The original pS3's give off massive heat also. There was a good article on Eurogamer last week about both the 360 and PS3 having major heat issues.
| inverted3reality said: I wouldn't trust this, the PS3 slims sold in my area have all been performing fantastic according to the friends I have who picked one up. Also, at my eb we've had none returned. either OP is lying, or people are lying to return them. Seems fishy. |
So your annecdotal evidence is more reliable than his annecdotal evidence?
Sure.
| Reasonable said: ^^ We know no such thing. An anecdote on the internet = PS3 fail rate has gone up? Right, that sounds definitive. All we know is 360 had an above average fail rate and that it 'may' still have an above average fail rate. As for PS3 we know it's fail rate is above Wii but apparently within the acceptable range for electronics. As for the slim we know nothing yet, despite the OP. Given it uses less power, etc. I see no reason for the fail rate to change, because while smaller it's using less juice and so far the evidence I've seen is it runs to roughly the same temperature at the heat exhaust. |
So tell me this... what is the "standard" for determining what is an acceptable MTBF rate for electronics? Specifically consoles, considering that different electronics devices tend to have different failure rates.
That's right... there aren't any such magic numbers. No reasonable person (no pun intended) would argue that the 360s failure rate was too high, particulary in the earlier units, but what is "acceptable" is very subjective. A pacemaker needs an extremely low failure rate to be considered "acceptable".
As far as seeing no reason for the failure rate to change, that's not a very supportable argument. Any time an electronic device that produces significant amounts of heat is re-engineered to reduce size, etc., there are all kinds of new failure risks introduced. This isn't to imply that the failure rate has to go up, but saying there isn't any reason for it change flies in the face of modern electronics design.
Funny thing is going by these numbers failure rate has stayed the same. The OP later stated that 2 of the 4 werent broken but just returned. 2 out of 30 = 7%
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