SCEE DENIES DISC ERROR RUMOURS

Blaming sloppy journalism, SCEE have strongly denied a rumour claiming that 40 percent of the 40GB PlayStation 3s have disc read errors. As you can see from the statement below from SCEE head David Reeves, the 40GB models have the same industry leading, very low failure rates as the 60GB PS3.

“We are very proud of the quality and reliability of PlayStation 3 and are disappointed that such extremely sloppy journalism has resulted in this totally inaccurate story… Since launching the 40GB PS3, we have experienced a fantastic jump in sales and the failure rates have remained at the very low level that we not only strive for, but have been achieving since the launch of PS3.”

Here’s a link to the story on Kotaku for further background reading on this.