Ugh...
Do you run an arcade or a route? Well I do, 125+ arcades and about 3000 games. Some of those games have been out for 20+ years with original factory hardware in them and are still working just fine. Made in USA, Japan, Spain, Germany, Canada, Mexico and NOT China. Games in your house are not exposed to 16-18 hours a day of being powered up, Soda, popcorn, candy, heat, cold, dust, dirt the list goes on and on. Made in China might work in your house but it doesnt cut it in the commercial world.
Some of my new games dont make it to 2 weeks and they are already having some sort of failure either with the monitor, power supply, CPU whatever. Guess where all that junk is made?? Like the $8000.00 Terminator thats 3 months old, Its LCD panel is bad already. Guess where the panel was made. Go ahead, guess... Countless H2 Overdrives with bad LCD panels and controllers.
I pulled a PC out of a Namco Nirin the other day. Not only were ALL of the caps on the video card bad but over half of the caps on the mother board were also bad. The game is less then a year old! Electronic components made where? You guessed it...
BTW, the PC I'm using is made in Taiwan (I know same smell) but at least they take a small amount of pride in the stuff they make. My Wifes Toshiba laptop lasted 6 months then the mother board failed. Made where??? Hmmm????
And yeah I know that most (if not all) American branded stuff is actually built in China. That would explain all the Dell failures we were so blessed with over the last 5 years. I wish they would go back to Made in Mexico for pete's sake!