# Is there a future for the PS3?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-future-for-the-ps3/398376>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 2, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-future-for-the-ps3/398376 "2007-04-02T02:42:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-future-for-the-ps3/398376/41 "2007-04-07T06:10:13Z")

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[QUOTE=DKW]  
And then there are those stories about X-Boxes dying right in the store display. I think the harsh truth is that when it comes to consoles, the more stuff there is, the more stuff can go wrong.  
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The 360 has some serious heating/cooling problems - there are numerous stories of people having catastrophic hardware failures mere hours after taking it out of the box, even when they kept it well-ventilated. I want to buy one, but I also want to wait until they make some sort of hardware revision to fix this.

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