You ever just randomly wonder who's more fanatical? PS3 fans or Xbox360 fans? Honestly probably not that many of us really care, but I wander upon stupidity constantly from either side and just started wondering. A random comment is, "You PS3 fanboys say the Xbox360 failure rates are 50% and it's bullshit", on the other side, "YLOD is a serious disaster, something Sony should repair for free".



Honestly both are ignorant comments. Well despite one being true and the other not. The Xbox360 console failure rate has been supposedly cured. Way down from it's original 54.2% or so although this percentage is from a September (magazine so August) survey. So most likely that number was higher. Ok now let's just utterly ignore this figure I mean totally throw it to the wind and pretend it doesn't exist.

Lets move on to the PS3, people constantly are bitching about YLOD. Which supposedly comes from not using enough thermal paste on the CPU. I have a hard time believing it personally. Why? Well PS3 failure rates are 10.6% which is a little high I admit typically I would say keep it under 10% but at least their close. Not to mention that if you did this with a PC CPU you would notice sooner than 1 year, which is when the warranty is up. Most bitching conveniently happens after the warranty is up. I mean you didn't notice artifices on your GPU issuing you vertical lines? Anyway...hell I have an original 60GB, which I still have to this day upgraded to 350GB.

Percentage of console owners who suffered a second hardware failure after the original repair:
Xbox360: 41.2%
PS3: 14.7%

Percentage of respondents whose friends have had console hardware failures:
Xbox360: 69.9%
PS3: 12.4%

So what the hell does any of this have to do with anything right? Well if you haven't entered into nerd rage and flooded me with some half cocked comment then you will find out.

You have to think here, well if you got screwed that many times almost a 1:2 chance to get a dead box, and a 1:2 chance to get another dead box on receiving your fix, why would you go and get another one after the warranty was up?

The amount of people who would buy another Xbox360 despite all these issues is 36.4%, the amount of PS3 people who would buy a second one is 13.4%

So by numbers alone we know who has the biggest fanboys. Honestly, there must be some consumer ethics, which is why I can not purchase an Xbox360 responsibly. Buying multiple consoles despite knowing their failure rate is the ultimate in fanboy. Maybe all those Wii's sold because they needed something to play while their Xbox360 was away.



Now release the nerd rage.

SOURCE: Gameinformer ISSUE 197, SEPTEMBER 2009