If recent reports hold true, Sony PlayStation 3 users may be spending more than their friends for a “next generation console” to save on the hassle of returning damaged goods. Sure all new consoles come with a warranty, and Microsoft even extended the Xbox 360 one to three years, but of course it is much more of an enjoyable experience to never have to send your game machine away for repairs. According to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe founder Chris Deering, PS3 failure rates are "around .02 percent". In other words, the PS3 is way below the industry average of failure rates (3-5%). Although numbers have been rumoured and speculated, neither Microsoft nor Nintendo has disclosed specific failure rates.
News source: PC World
News source: PC World
Remember how Sony denied and denied the PS2's problems? Remember Microsoft dismissing the massive amount of 360 failures?
Always wait for independent research when it comes to these companies that have a history of dodging issues, misleading the consumers, and ultimately lying to anyone who will listen.
Using a larger number like 100,000 , a .02% failure rate would cause only 20 machines to fail.
but we all know they have sold quite a few more than 100
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As a slightly off-topic question... Sony keeps having a dig at XBOX360 failure rates yet what was the failure rate of the PS2? It must have been about 90% with the dreaded "Disk read error" - you knew it was going to happen, it was just a case of when and sure, you could fix, for a few weeks if you opened them up and twisted that little dvd-drive cog but you shouldn't have had to. I must have had about 6 PS2s in 5 years.
Heh, I'll wait for a non-biased source.
I guess it's a good thing that Sony did not put any of their batteries in PS3 LOL...
Now that have a higher price tag also so many would say that you get what you pay for.
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