Quote Originally Posted by Icarus Moonsight View Post
Unacceptably high? It's a consumer tolerance level, directed bottom up outside of errors or miraculous and efficient design. It's not a standard really, it's an average failure rate crossing many fields of devices. You could potentially engineer things to be nigh everlasting, but are you ready to drop 2k monies or even more on a cell phone that lasts forever when most people get a new one in a year or two anyway?

Nintendo is a stand out in this case because they are top performers both in regard to reliability and price. The PS3 is probably Sony's most reliable gaming platform yet. And that is somewhat sad for them, honestly.

Thanks @skaar for taking a break from moderating pony pics to make me laugh my ass off.
I understand the realities, and recognize that my perspective is different than the majority you reference (hence the "personally"). I would and do pay more for products that will last because i don't replace stuff as often.

And is it okay for failure rates to be high or not? You seem to say ther former in your first paragraph, and the latter in the second, but I'm probably misinterpreting you. Given the market's approval of their products, it seems Sony has things balanced pretty well.