Sony's PlayStation 4 could have a serious manufacturing fault, leading to fault units.

I recently received a rather morbid phone call from a good friend, telling me that his 5th console had come to its end. Coincidently this happened while I was compiling an article discussing console failure rates over the last year. While some might suggest that this is no coincidence considering the statistics regarding the slightly older 360 models, it did …

A recent survey conducted over a 232 day period, with a total of 500,000 submissions at a 1 in every 3 person basis, has collected some interesting data with regards to console failure statistics over the last year.

The Bulletstorm developers take a stab at Microsoft over the RROD fiasco

In what can only be described as a PR disaster in the making the BBC website is reporting that the massively successful Kinect is causing older Xbox 360 models to Red Ring. Microsoft has been very quick to deny any link between the Kinect and the latest spate of RROD’s but you will recall they used to deny the RROD …

Well someone’s not happy. That someone happens to actually be a group of US Marines overseas who weren’t very happy to find out that their Xbox 360 had fallen victim to the infamous Red Ring Of Death. Since getting it repaired was a bit of a tall order, they decided to do a little repairing themselves, with some very large …

The Xbox 360 – still the top selling HD console – has been plagued with hardware problems, largely a result of shoddy design and poor manufacturing. While the prevalence of the ominous “Red Ring of Death” has lessened (some say to make way for the now more common e74 error), Xbox 360’s do still die. Thankfully, after acknowledging  the problem, …

The corporate vice president of Microsoft Game studios, Phil Spencer, has been chatting to IGN about the new Xbox 360 and we have received a guarantee of sorts about the new consoles never being able to red ring. But that doesn’t mean they won’t fail Last Updated: June 17, 2010