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[the_tyrant]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

I see your maths, I'll add the RROD into the mix (PS3 flavours of this are also available).

Now what's the daily cost?

(And I'm talking about a 'buy early' thing and suffer just out of warranty, not a wait for a small hardware change or the miracle 'fix it' video on you tube to sort it out yourself - or for those that love their console but aren't really tech-savvy beyond their dozen buttons and couple of sticks on a controller - their realistic option is either take it to a man that can, or buy new.)

Well you see, the total generation survival rate of the Xbox 360 (for the original fat one) is approximately 60% according to a survey of a variety of sources. The PS3's (again, original fat one) fares better with a survival rate of like 75 percent.

Surprisingly, all my gaming hardware survived, the only one that "perished in the line of duty" was my PSP 3000, that died in the washing machine. So it was luck, and not hardware quality.

I understand the thinking, usually after 3 years, you get a new hardware revision for the consoles, and usually a 100$ price drop. And its true, 30% of all xboxes lived to see their 4th birthday.

However, lets redo the math with this as a consideration:

playstation 3 launch was in 2006, by the time the slim came out (aka, the new model that had a high survival rate), it was 2010.

The slim was 200$ cheaper, and according to my own data working at an electronics store, it costs 100$ to get your playstation (or xbox, we had a flat rate) fixed of major damage.

Now the new generation of consoles comes out on 2013. Thus if you buy the slim model, you would get 3 years of service time out of it. The old fat one would get you 7 years of service time (math is almost the same with the 360, so I'll do it once)

So the fat one is 599 at launch, and the slim launched at 399.


If you are lucky, and your console did not break. It would cost you 599/7 years is 23 cents per day. If you are unlucky, and you needed to get it fixed once, it would have cost you 27 cents (699/ 7 years) per day.

If you bought the slim, you would have gotten 3 years of service out of it. Its actually 36 cents a day!


Now I get that gaming habits are different, and for me, i usually phase my old devices out of service after games slowly start drying up.

However, in my experience, the "cheap" PS3 slim SKU is actually amazing as a media player, and thus it would vastly outlive the "console generation". While my little brother is watching the Toronto Blue Jays get beat up on the main TV, I'll just go to a secondary TV, pop on the PS3 slim that i got on sale, and turn on MLB TV. Its a great little machine for that use, and I can anticipate using it like that for a long time.

PS: So a thing that I like about the new consoles is actually how little power they consume. Both of them consume 100 something watts under full load. This might actually encourage me to phase out my old fat consoles that consume a ton of power, and even make my use my 1000 watt monster PC a bit less. I mean, considering that the average person spends like what, 4 hours a day in front of the boob tube? if I save 800 watts for 4 hours per day, for 7 years, it does add up.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

Well you see, the total generation survival rate of <SNIP> it does add up.

Thanks for responding to my comments, and for doing more maths.

I think I've still got my original Playstation from '96 too, don't think it reads the disks any more though but it served me well from -29°C to +40°C, and it'd been thoroughly abused in tents and hotels on ops and exercises in UK fields, German airfields, Italy, Kosovo, Bahrain, Oman, by roughly 80 different people.

[Jimbuna]

I remember when I was younger and used to play 'tents' a lot.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Need to find a Fry meme that says 'Not sure if Jim is being serious or rude?'

[Jimbuna]

Believe me...it was a serious business.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

PM me an address and I'll send you one for free. I haven't taken it out of the drawer in several years, and don't even have a TV to use it with. Also all the games I have.

Oh I wouldn't find the time to make use of it. I've got enough stuff as it is.

Thanks for the offer though....maybe someday.

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Need to find a Fry meme that says 'Not sure if Jim is being serious or rude?'

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Believe me...it was a serious business.