Got a friend at work which had both his 360 and ps3 die within 2 weeks, he was pretty pissed off. It seems like his bd-rom died, supposedly the #1 cause of ps3 failures which appears to be more frequent than we might think.

As for the 360, I've had my share of problems. My first one went RROD, did the xclamp fix and now it's pretty solid. It will fail when it's too hot but other than that, it's good. However since it's banned I got another one off ebay sold as-is as it wasn't working. The guy did the xclamp fix with some cheap parts. I managed to fix it and it worked fine for almost a year now. It then started to fail, fail and fail. I tried to fix it and I did so many times but it just got worse. I tried the hot air gun fix and it seemed to work for quite a while, till it failed again. I did the fix again but was so angered at it, I wanted it to pay, to burn, and it did, it just wouldn't start anymore. Got me a new 360, unfortunately I got a Falcon but the game that came along with it wasn't working so I returned it and I got another Falcon, meh.

Jaspers seem to be pretty safe now. Still, with my Falcon I put an heatsink on the hdmi scaler chip since it's believed to be reason behind the next huge problem, e74. Still we gotta face it, games now are on a media which is bound to fail quickly. A cart can last dozens of years and thousands of hours of use. My old cart systems still works flawlessly. Disc readers (cd roms, dvd roms, bd roms, shitty roms) are made of parts that just won't last that much, same goes for hard drives that we found in these consoles now, now wonder the old NES still works when newer consoles won't.

Oh and yeah, old xboxes might be built like thanks, but I've seen quite a lot of dead dvd-rom drives and hard drives in these babies. I love the machine but they're all bound to fail at some time, unfortunately. Same goes for "solid" ps3.