The fact that it's nearly the second biggest market for gaming, what an ignorant comment.

No, 3rd party means it's a shit source. MS offers a 3 year warranty for the RRoD. Why would people go to 3rd party for an RRoD? The chart was also vague and stupid. The chart was on RRoD not failure rates. The 360 fails more than just RRoD problems. DRE and E74 for example.

I was about to report it for racism.....but thats harsh

that was a very silly comment though libellule, this is no time to talk about french/british rivalry!

lol ylod stuff?

Its almost certainly going to be the YLOD.

I just hope Watchdog are fair and report the facts accurately.

The best that can come of this is that SONY offer extended cover for YLOD as the original 60GB machines do seem to be really prone to this kind of failure.

Its a bit of a poke in the eye for all the loyal SONY fans that paid the high early adopter pricetag to be essentially used as hardware guinea pigs.

Live in UK but don't own a PS3
so I'll give it a miss :D

@Watchdog

£400? The PS3 has never been £400. It launched at £425, and has been £300 or less since winter 2007. Don't really trust their research team after that error...

Song at the end is hilarious. Haha.

Pony up Sony.

Sony say 12,500 PS3's have broken, about 0.5%. Even if Sony are lowballing that figure, I can't see it being more than 2%. Since that is the average failure rate of an electrical good, why does that warrant a Watchdog investigation?