Why is this still going. And now I'm reading SDF and stuff?
It almost pains me to ask but do people seriously think that normally all products, in particular new mass-market high-tech products, have a 0% failure rate?
It's almost like you have never bought something and it arrived either broken or it broke within the first times of usage. Guess what, that's not a design flaw. That happens because production is and cannot be perfect. Not to mention random event like transport conditions. That one console out of 500 not working? Yeah, that's the one that fall from the pile to the floor once.
Something like this has nothing to do with e.g. RRoD. Not only because of the higher failure rates but because that's a design flaw which materializes itself over time&use.
What happens when something breaks day one? You return it and get a replacement. That's how it works for every product imaginable and it's not a big deal and just an annoyance. But someone HAS to be the unlucky one, it always has been like that.
It seems Sony giving a number actually makes people more paranoid here, as they apparently can't comprehend how low 0.4% or whatever the fuck the real number would be is. Maybe they should give numbers from PS2 etc. when people didn't even know there were consoles breaking on day one unless it happened to you. Maybe then they realize there is no need for panic unless they already panicked back then as well. (and btw, the fear is... what?.... of replacing a product for free?)
But I must say, this will be fun when we have the same thread about 10 bricked XB1 consoles...