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by hbnyc 4596 days ago
and only 500k are still functional...

http://www.amazon.com/PlayStation-4-Launch-Edition/product-r...

4 comments

your type of reasoning is the one that makes hard working people go mad. Someone works hard on something and it happens to have 0.5% failure rate but you negative people see only that. You know why there are only 1000 5 stars? because all the other people that have working consoles prefer to play instead of leave reviews...

This is really why we can't have nice things...

Also known as the vocal minority.
You have to take in mind not all 1 star reviews are about it being broken. e.g http://www.amazon.com/review/REWFZYCPTU449/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?...
Even assuming 5* == working, 1* != working, there's ~1k to .5k respectively as I write this, so a third would be broken and 666k still functional.
Not sure your math is very sound.