While the official Sony Playstation blog doesn’t name names, they do point to the same NY Times Xbox 360 unreliability article linked and discussed here yesterday.

Here’s the mild, but effective dig:

A lot of noise has been made recently about the reliability issues of one of our competitor’s systems … [PS Vault] put [the PS3] in a freezer at zero degrees for up to 108 hours and they put it in a sauna at 120 degrees for up to 64 hours — all the while running games and Blu-ray Disc movies on it. Did it fail? Nope.

No argument here that the PS3 is more reliable than the Xbox 360. Microsoft may have gotten it to market first, but it seems to have been at a great cost in quality control. Conversely, more Xbox 360s are being sold (and returned for repair). Which is the more envious position?

With the PS3 price drop and more good games on the way, I see a brighter holiday season for the PS3. It’s still going to be #3 (still a chump) this holiday season, but for gamers who already have the Wii and Xbox 360 and also a 1080p capable TV, the PS3 would look good under the tree.

The most telling holiday war for game systems will be in 2008 when all three systems have more established libraries and the PS3 has their HOME network in (non-beta) play.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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