Its clear that the PS3 can't have had the same failure rate as the PS2 (which had a 50%+ failure rate on serie 1 and 2 due to the plastic lense for laser focus which just deformed ... had one of those as well that needed to be put into a specific angle to work for more than 4 hours), simply because they had to push it back half a year in europe to deliver enough consoles to JP and US due to the failure rate on BR lasers ... and I am not fully sure if the ones used now won't just die soon ... the material used is a little critical and potentially could die after a few tousand hours.