Gaming blog Kotaku has dubbed the problem the 'Disc Drive of Doom', continuing the tradition of alliteratively named hardware failures.
Wasn't that a bracelet that came out about a year ago, and crashed and burned in a humiliatingly public epidemic of hardware failures?
Microsoft blamed the widespread hardware failures on the use of lead-free solder introduced in response to a European Union mandate.
Early reports of hardware failures afflicting Sony's new PlayStation 4 console have now become widespread enough to acquire a nickname: the "Blue Light of Death".
The crash stemmed not from a single problem but from a series of hardware failures compounded by a database malfunction, the company said.
Click here to read our comparison of the new consoles Although Sony's PS4 launch has certainly been a success in terms of sales figures, the console has also suffered from hardware failures.
Microsoft responded to this story (in full at Venturebeat.com) with a statement that it has already acknowledged an "unacceptable number of repairs" to Xbox 360 consoles and had responded to the hardware failures with a free replacement program.
"This test launching is several months behind the June expectation," he added in an interview, saying the Iranians had suffered many delays because of design flaws and hardware failures.
SN hardware failures: SNs are subject to random hardware failures.
Hardware based solutions tolerate hardware failures by relying on redundancy.
Their goal is to make hardware failures invisible to applications.
