Yellow Light of Death is something I hope never happens to mine. I love my backwards compatibility!

Quote Originally Posted by Loaf View Post
Lol omg you can't be serious. Ps3 failure rate used to be higher back when 40, 60 and 80gb were the only ones on the market. I would know since I was shipping the broken/failed PS3s that got returned at my old job at Best Buy.

But nowadays, 360 and Ps3 about the same.
This is the first time I've ever heard anyone say the failure rate for both systems is about the same. I have no doubt you have the experience you said you do, but I find it very hard to believe just as many PS3s are returned as 360s. I mean no disrespect, I just find it hard to believe.

Doing a quick search on google, here are a few articles that outline the general failure rates for the three next gen contenders. Keep in mind that these shouldn't be considered 100% correct, but rather give some insight as to the general failure rates. Also, these articles may seem anti-360 in nature, but it's only because they claim the failure rate is much higher compared to PS3 and Wii.

All the articles below also outline roughly the same thing because they're all from around the time of August 2009 (the most recent report I could find). It's possible since then the numbers have changed.

Gamer.Blorge

The Consumerist

IGN

There are more articles online, so don't take these three as the final word. They're just the most recent I could find and illustrate the differences between the three consoles from a failure-rate perspective.