Uhm, do you even know what you're talking about?

Quote Originally Posted by link below
A new survey of warranty claims by 16,000 game-console owners found that Xbox 360s failed for nearly 24 percent of their owners, compared to 10 percent of PlayStation 3s and less than 3 percent of Wii consoles.
http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09...r-rate-survey/

That's also a bit old, here are some other, newer statistics:
Quote Originally Posted by link below
Percentage consoles that were repaired or replaced
XBox 360 : 42%
PS3 : 8%
Wii : <1%
http://gorumors.com/crunchies/game-c...vs-ps3-vs-wii/

I bought my PS3 two years ago and one of the reasons was a higher reliability than the 360, I haven't had any complete failures so far.
Looks like the Wii wins but the PS3 isn't anywhere near the 360 in failure rates.
Don't know what you and your friends do to your PS3s or whether you're just unlucky, but overall the PS3 isn't nearly as bad as your OP makes it out to be.