I dunno......if you're talking about Wii an inexperienced person could possibly wreck a console via either method.
Hardmodding is easy if you've got the skills......but in my case it's completely solderless

hard to fuck that up
Softmod original Xbox is more messing around for HDD upgrades/failures.
Chipping an Xbox isn't difficult at all
I don't have to worry about wearing out the lasers on my Wii or Xbox consoles.....the games are loaded via HDD.
FMCB PS2 means you have to patch discs....which is no big deal, but the discs aren't proper dumps anymore really.
Chipping a PS2
is difficult though
