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That was also my 9th XBOX 360, I gave up on it, not buying a new one. After 8 repairs Microsoft noticed I had also sold the defective consoles once they came back to me.

They told me, We won’t repair it, we don’t fix E-47 errors which is the card failing – So clearly a graphics error and nothing to do with me.

I used to have a 40GB PS3 also but I traded it for a 80GB one. I’ve never had anything other than a few game freezes on Sony’s console.

O’well, Happy gaming(hopefully)

Like I’m saying, times have changed. You are now going to have to cross your fingers and pray that your PS3 doesn’t break down just as much as you would 360 (and if you havn’t been a muppet and still have all the original packaging and the receipt, you usually get a year’s warranty at the store you bought it from so just go get it replaced.)

Wii remains the clear leader in terms of console reliability, followed shortly by DS.

Will be interesting, however, given the recent trend of PS3 disc-drive issues, to see if this situation gets better in the coming year. 360 failure has improved a lot as well, so all to lay for now.

I spend too long with my fingers crossed will playing xbox.

Sorry for the typos, they confuse the issue slightly.

Perhaps they should call it ‘difficult second’ syndrome or something. The majority of faulty 360s seemed to be those made in the second major batch run after initial component modifications. SONY, however, seem to have gone and given Europe less of an offer with the newer PS3s and a truck load of extra bugs to happen.

I’ll admit I found this article after some research for a friend who had recently replaced his 40gb console with an 80gb model because it had stopped reading discs returned a copy of Fallout 3 as that disc wasn’t working either. He phoned this evening to let me know that this disc could’t be read either… nor could any of his other games.

Sadly, while this is the first case of a repeat failure I’ve pesonally dealt with, we currently have the same amount of faulty PS3s (of varying SKUs) as Xbox 360s sat in our stockroom waiting to return to their respective companies. Of the top of my head, at least 3 of the PS3s have discs stuck inside them. This isn’t merely a blip or a seasonal thing either, and while I’m not exactly keeping accurate figures on me, I can say quite confidently that while the exact numbers fluctuate, the two consoles are as bad as each other in terms of going bust.

SO, my view on the general opinion of 360 being less reliable than PS3 is that it is completely unfounded, and one of the last rhetorics of defiance reeled off by SONY fan-boys. Yeah, my own 360 stopped working (the ‘ring of death’ is a feedback mechanism to tell you that the machine suffering a fault, not a cause in itself by the way) a couple of months ago, and as it was bought way back at the original launch, it was about 2 years out of warranty, but so what? A new Arcade costs less than a Wii (as does the Pro now), and the old hard-drive and cables can still be used without hassle, and its HDMI compatible, so its not like I had to fork out £300 for it and lost all my game saves, downloaded GH tracks and other stuff like most PS3 faulty owners do, and I havn’t lost any functionality like those guys who bought a 60gb, had it low up, and then found out they had lot a bunch of useful ports when they replaced it with a 40 or 80gb.

Yes, the HD Drive is removable in PS3 too, I know that, but the vast majority of console owners are not hyper-clued up about this kind of thing, and just end up losing everything. Fact is, what may have been the case of the unbreakable PS3 back in the 60gb days is long gone.

The reality is, PS3 breaks down as much as 360 does. Its just SONY’s PR department is much better at covering up the truth than Microsoft’s was, and as the newer of the two consoles, is less likely to grab headlines about it because we’ve all seen it before with 360 anyway and its no longer news.

Oh, and it seems the kind, helpful people that first staffed SONY’s Customer service center for the UK have either been promoted off or left, cause they are as bad, if not worse than MS’s now to boot.

So, don’t let fan-boys make your decisons for you. Simple fact is this, if you are unsure which console to buy, and aren’t in it for playing Halo 3 online, Call of Duty in high def, or Little Big Planet… buy a Wii, currently the LEAST faulty console of the three.

And that advice comes from someone who exists on the frontlines of faulty console returns.

Enjoy.

Stu
HMV Guernsey Games Expert.

Onto the failure rates, 7 of the 9 of my friends who own a 360 have had it sent back for repair because of either a faulty disc drive, an unknown problem or what we call the matrix! (That what usually happens when the graphics card fails) or the ring of death.

Now, take a look at the odds above….that a 63% failure rate, include myself and that brings it up to 70%.

I’m sorry but Microsoft in the recent years have got it into their heads that they can get away with selling unsuitable goods to the public. Just take a look at how Vista has turned out (to be honest it has improved of late) we cannot afford to just throw away a £300 console and buy a new one. My suspicion is that this is where they make the money.

I’m off Xbox for life, tomorrow I’m going to sell the lot of games, and accessories I collected over the 18 month life of my console.

The play station 2 never let me down, and the ps3 is calling……..!

Sony takes their time with their products, and I feel that the ps3 has had some bad press because of its late arrival. To be honest, isn’t that a god-send for it to be late? So what if their production was producing so many faults that they had to hold it back a few months, they would have scrapped the dodgy ps3’s or re-worked them. It just shows that they care about the hardware they produce for our entertainment and Nintendo too.

All I have to say is:

Microsoft……UP YOURS!!!

Truth is all launch hardware is defective, poor design and a rush to the market crippled quality control that by now has been proven to have not been part of the 360 creation process.

If you hurry you can go find the 360 launch article and declare it victory and unveil the dirty truth from the future, sony sucks.

Moreover, you’d have to see over 120,000 PS3’s being sold on ebay for the same reason to prove the PS3 has a failure rate of 1%…let alone 6%. What would help is to provide souces.

So in the long run, I would much rather have the Xbox 360 over the competitors consoles, for the sake of quality (including free repair/console replacement) of the system which neither of the competitors offer (Sony needs to start offering some support for the broken ones soon or their going to have their own little blog like this).

FACT: The 360 has the upper hand in terms of games and street life. Obviously there are some hardware problems, which more or less are being dealt with.

FACT: In terms of both units, the PS3 is a more sleek, quieter, and well thought out machine. Unfortunately, by luck of the draw, the XBox has had more exposure, and via financial clout, more exclusives than the PS3.

FACT: I love ‘em both…although I have a LOT of reservations about purchasing a 360 (I’ve previously borrowed…) The last thing I need is a console that full of bugs…and if it was a Sony product, I’d be bashing it in the same way. Sometimes slow and easy wins the race…

So let’s lose the childish banter…and just play the REAL games instead of inventing our own…