@MikeB

If I get your right your contention is there is no PS3 failures?

No one is doubting the early 360s have more issues. The current 360 revision looks to be comparable to the industry, highly improved, from your own evidences.

@MikeB

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MikeB wrote: @BrianK This reportage was done by Iain Lee, a freelance journalist who has been employed by Microsoft. In this article for MSN’s tech-site, Iain discusses the console wars. Make of it what you will. Some of his past comments: “You have to feel sorry for everyone that plumped for the PS3 over the 360.” “the 360 came out and is as close to perfect as you can get.” “But even the biggest Playstation fan has to admit that the 360 is just great.” “one console offers a sublime, beautiful, wondrous, joyful online experience, while the other is guff. I’ll leave it to you to try and work out which is which.” “Look, I’m not saying I’m never going to play PS3 again, all I’m saying is it’s going to take something pretty special to get me to try and find the controllers and start up the thing.” IMO pure comedy! LOL

What you link and quote from above has every appearance to be a comedy piece for fun Mike. As evidenced by some obvious jokes:

"Then there was the ridiculous sale price for the PS3. Something like 70 billion million hundred pounds. I exaggerate slightly for comic effect, but you get the idea. Way over budget for your casual gamer. Even me, with my millions from having been on the telly five years ago, wasn’t going to spend that much on it. "

"And what the sodding hell is Blu-ray all about? That’s not even how you spell blue. It should have an ‘e’ at the end, B-L-U-E! Not Blu. Pathetic. "

"I even got sent a free copy of Casino Royale when I registered my PS3 online, and I haven’t watched it out of protest. I lost big time in the great Betamax/VHS wars of the early 80s. Yes, I’m not ashamed to admit I backed totally the wrong horse then. I went for Betamax. Excellent quality but only 3 films available to rent."

It was ACTUAL comedy, and further made obvious because the man is a comedian by trade:
http://www.iainlee.com/

And even if you want to believe he was serious there he also said in that very article:

"That’s not to say the PS3 won’t become a great console in the future. I’m sure it will. Of course it will."

Bottom line about the UK MSN post is that its obviously not to be taken at all seriously.

As to Iain in the Watchdog show, he did not do any of the "reportage" as you state. They mention straight out that he is a comedian and he presents the one segment on the repairs of PS3s in the van the show setup.

Anita Rani was the reporter on the story, and that was quite clear.
Now to be sure, I'm not so sure Anita did the best job in the world. But there is no reason to pretend Iain had that role in the program.

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