10 Things Nobody Admits PS3 Did Better Than Xbox 360

Almost as infamous as the Xbox Live servers and the vast array of titles in the Xbox library was just how gosh darn unreliable these consoles were.

So bad was the original model's reliability, that Microsoft were forced to extend the warranty to three years for consoles that experienced the three red quadrants 'General Hardware Failure' report, becoming infamously known as the 'Red Ring of Death'.

According to some estimates, the red ring of death issue cost Microsoft a hefty $1.15 billion alone. As many as 24% of all Xbox 360 consoles suffered from overheating that often resulted in the red ring, doing an unholy amount of damage to the company's reputation as a console developer. Another survey claimed that, out of a pool of 5,000, as many as 54% of Xbox 360 users had experienced a console failure, whilst that number was only 10% for the PS3 and 7% for the Nintendo Wii.

With later versions, Microsoft were forced to strip back on a number of components in order to make the 360 less broken. These included the inclusion of dabs of epoxy on the CPU, as well as GPU to help cool the system down. Even still, it was still commonplace for players to be mid-game only to have the power button start to flash red, telling them they needed to shut down the system to avoid overheating.