Sony has decided to do the thing I'm about to link to

[Dark Jaguar]

Well my XBox is made in... Mexico? That's quality righ there! The GCN is made in Japan, this one anyway. I did have to send it in because it suddenly developed horrible disk read errors. Actually, it happened when I was playing Eternal Darkness... No, it wasn't a sanity effect, like I thought it was the first time I saw it. The fact that it wasn't an effect in the game, THAT messed with my sanity. When it happened with other games, I had to send it in. Fortunatly, they replaced it for free. It's all here in this pamphlet :D. (Actually, I think I made a thread about it.) The XBox suffered the same fate, so I had to get it replaced too. Both the replacement systems have had NO problems at all though. Both I think were the early models. My PS2 on the other hand is a later model. This leads me to my crackpot theory. That is to say, the reason is because the first models of ALL the systems were horribly flawed. I know I remember hearing a LOT about XBox failures, and a few stories about GCN problems (though not so much with the latter). I think that the reason there were so many more PS2 reports is because so many more people had PS2s. Crazy I know, but somehow that seems logical... Meanwhile, the later models of ALL the systems don't seem to have ANY problems, ALMOST as though the later models were made specifically to ADDRESS said problems :D. Anyway, as I said, since I first got the second model of the PS2, I think that is exactly why it didn't fail, whereas the first editions models of the other two systems were flawed and thus they did.

Weird though, that ALL the companies would released flawed systems right out the door... That's what rushing to a launch date before stress testing the optical media drives will do I guess...