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I've owned quite a few systems throughout my life, some of them were shared with family but for the most part they've been solely mine. I've played them for varying lengths of time, 100's or 1000's of hours.

I've treated them like crap, tossed them around while moving cables, dropping them, banging them against things, leaving them in dust riddled locations, stuffing them into drawers with other crap, bringing them out again, having them dragged down to the floor by the family pet - EVERYTHING, you get the idea.

I see so many folk with stories of systems that stop working, especially with the last generation we had. Just what the hell are you doing to your systems? Stop bathing with them.

Because it never happens to me, it never happens to anyone.

Originally Posted by akaoni

I see so many folk with stories of systems that stop working, especially with the last generation we had. Just what the hell are you doing to your systems? Stop bathing with them.

Build a time machine, go back to 2005 and buy a 360. Then talk.

My PS2 stopped working many years ago. Kinda shitty, I really loved it and had some games on my backlog I wanted to go back to. Never got around to fixing it or having it replaced.

At least I finished Okami.

If it has moving parts, it will wear out.

Mee too, honestly.
Except the two 360s I owned, of course

Originally Posted by CronoShot

Because it never happens to me, it never happens to anyone.

Basically.

Me either. Or actually one did, Dreamcast, but my brother was young back then and he kinda smashed it. Everything else has survived, for example I'm still on my first PS3 model (fat one). Though I admit my first 360 was a slim, so there's that.

Originally Posted by akaoni

I've owned quite a few systems throughout my life, some of them were shared with family but for the most part they've been solely mine. I've played them for varying lengths of time, 100's or 1000's of hours.

I've treated them like crap, tossed them around while moving cables, dropping them, banging them against things, leaving them in dust riddled locations, stuffing them into drawers with other crap, bringing them out again, having them dragged down to the floor by the family pet - EVERYTHING, you get the idea.

I see so many folk with stories of systems that stop working, especially with the last generation we had. Just what the hell are you doing to your systems? Stop bathing with them.

I think you were lucky. My original PS2's disc drive eventually stopped reading and my PS3 got YLOD (mind you both these were a lot of years after I got them and my PS3 was always on since I used it for PlayTv as well)

Can't speak for the 360 since I only had a slim and I sold it after a short while, but I I worked for GAME customer services for 3 months and I used to get numerous calls every single day regarding RROD - it was insane.

I had a 360 that died twice and a silm 360 that died once. Before that, my Saturn stopped reading discs.

It's tech. Sometimes things just break, it's not the owner's fault.

My ps3 Ylod just a little bit ago. My launch fatty. I still don't know whether to send it in for repair or do their 99 dollar upgrade to a new slim.

Originally Posted by Riskington

If it has moving parts, it will wear out.

This. You can't reverse the law of physics.

Originally Posted by CronoShot

Because it never happens to me, it never happens to anyone.

Its amazing how many people argue about things based on this line of thinking.

I have never had a system to fail either, even owning a 2005 Xbox 360 that works to this day, but I know most of my friends have had failures. I think some of it, if maybe not most of it, is just programming and hardware luck of the draw.

Spectrum ZX - Still works to this day (this day been when I tried it about 6 months or so ago)
Atari 2600 - Worked perfectly for as long as I owned it
Sega Mega Drive - Still works (again it was used about 6 months ago)
Sony Playstation - Still works
Sony Playstation 2 - Little bro now has it, and it still works
Sony Playstation 2 Slim - Guess what, still works.
Nintendo Gamecube - Indestructable and still works despite being dropped during a house move
Xbox - Still works
Xbox 360 (launch) - RROD after a few years
Xbox 360 (Elite) - Still works
Sony Playstation 3 - Disc drive died a few weeks ago but digital downloads work.

Eh, shit just happens sometimes. My super nes for whatever reason only works when I have a weight on in, lol.

As for last gen, a lot of that was not user error. While some of it was(cue gaf subwoofer thread), a lot of 360s were just straight up faulty. Pretty much a ticking time bomb from day one. My Wii randomly stopped reading brawl when I tried to play it a year or so later due to some issue with dual layered discs so I needed to get it fixed, but I never did anything to the console to bust it.

Same, although I do treat my consoles rather well. Also, before this generation I was mainly a Nintendo gamer, and their consoles are usually built to last.

Good point.

Electronics never break or are defective, its always the users fault.

N64 - worked, sold
PS1- worked, sold
SNES - still works
GCN - worked, sold
Wii - still works
DS - still works
3DS - still works

4 RRoD afflicted 360's.

And that, my friends, is why I'm firmly in the Sony camp for now.

Never forgive, never forget.

Originally Posted by markot

Good point.

Electronics never break or are defective, its always the users fault.

I think we've found Peter Moore's GAF account.

That´s essentially my experience with gaming electronics. Then i got a 360.

my Sega Genesis still ticks and my PS2 lasted an entire generation

Originally Posted by CronoShot

Because it never happens to me, it never happens to anyone.

Pretty much sums things up here.

The only thing that died on me was my iPad 2 just before two years after I bought it. Thankfully, I could get it repaired at no cost. Everything else works. Errrrything.

That just means probability has been on my side.

Don't tempt fate OP!

Mega Drive - Never failed me
Snes - Indestructible
PS1 - All Good
N64 - Still works perfectly
PS2 - Dodgy disc drive
PS2 Slim - Like a bawse
PS3 60gb Fat (backward compatible) - Ylod, repaired and sold
Launch Xbox 360 - Still going strong. I kid, it died in a matter of months
PS3 120gb - Still going strong
PS4 - Arrives tomorrow......

Tag bait for biggest ass on GAF ?

Originally Posted by Papercuts

My Wii randomly stopped reading brawl when I tried to play it a year or so later due to some issue with dual layered discs so I needed to get it fixed, but I never did anything to the console to bust it.

You need to buy the disc cleaner kit thing, there's Nintendo official ones, it takes a few tries but it works.

To clarify had to use it on my Wii when I bought it, was second-hand. Inept previous owner.

Originally Posted by SolidChamp

4 RRoD afflicted 360's.

And that, my friends, is why I'm firmly in the Sony camp for now.

Never forgive, never forget.

I can not say this is exclusively the reason I've gone with Sony, but it damn sure is an enormously large reason. I am also still pissed about the $100 wireless dongle for the 360. And to think of it, all the stupid proprietary accessories the 360 used.

Ive had quite a few consoles break on me. A PS1, 2 PS2s (although I threw a controller at one while playing Socom), a PS3, and a 360. Besides the PS1 (gameshark) and the PS2 that I threw the controller at, the other just died. Nothing I did, just sometimes you get bad electronics.

edit: Just realized that none of my older consoles broke on me. I still have the NES, SNES and Genesis with none of them breaking on me. that SNES saw a lot of action too.

I've never had a system die before, but I've had issues with physical parts breaking (essentially the cracked hinge on DS Lite)

Only had 2.

Day one PS2 scratched my Tekken Tag disc. Replaced both console and game.

Day one 360 E74 error within 10 hours or so. Had in a cramped space not knowing then how fussy it was.

Not bad given I've bought/owned over 60 or so consoles over my life.

My Wii eventually bricked two weeks after launch. I put in 10+ hours of Zelda into it, but luckily found a save online that was close to where I was. SD cards as memory sticks blew my mind.

Had to put my OG PS1 on the side to read the disc, a little later i had to completely turn it upside down for it to read discs. Good times :)

Originally Posted by akaoni

I see so many folk with stories of systems that stop working, especially with the last generation we had. Just what the hell are you doing to your systems? Stop bathing with them.

Are you serious? I've seen some junk on forums in my time, but this is about as dick-ish as it gets.

Yeah, my Wii U got the flashing red light of death because I'm a grown man who treats his expensive electronics like a toddler, that clearly must be it. Nothing to do with it being a rare but known issue with some launch window-era hardware.

SMH.

I was like you OP until my launch PS3 fattie suddenly got the YLOD last month while playing uncharted 3. First time a console broke on me.. I was shocked.

Couldn't have come at a worse time either =(

My launch PS1 had the cheap CD rails and after a while would only read discs when upside down. My launch PS2 stopped reading discs a month after the original 90 day warranty died. My launch 360 got RROD less that a year after I bought it. My 60 GB launch PS3 got YLOD.

I must be the Yin to your Yang, OP. I take excellent care of my toys. They just don't make them like they used to, though.

None of the systems I've owned have failed either but I attribute that to luck.

A second hand Wii died on me two days after purchase. Luckily I could return it without problems.
Never had any issues with any other gaming hardware.

Is this a thread from 2008?

yes, all the dead consoles were the fault of consumers. They should not be doing whatever it was that caused their consoles to die, nothing ever happened to you.

I wish I could say the same, as I've owned almost every major console and handheld since the NES, but I had a 360 that RRoD'd. The only console that's ever died on me. `

I've been equally lucky over the years. Never had one break. Even my launch 360 worked fine for years before I sold it in 2010.

While I mostly relate this to luck, I do think the owner comes into play with some failures.

Same here.
All my nintendo systems are still working (owend every console-handheld from the beginning)

Do own i xbox 1 & ps 1 to, but the ps1 has difficulties to read the disc.
So i have to place the console upside down....

Guess I'm a lucky one, as none of the consoles I've owned ever stopped working, but then again, I'm usually careful (well, I guess I wasn't so much as a kid :p). Then again, I've never owned of those systems that had a knack for breaking (like the OG 360), so maybe there's that.

NES - still working, contacts are a bit worn out
SNES - no problems
N64 - works like a charm
PS1 - still working (I guess)
Original Xbox (1) - died a horrible death with smoke coming out of it
Original Xbox (2) - still working, disc drive gets jammed sometimes
Xbox 360 (1) - RRoD
Xbox 360 (2) - RRoD
Xbox 360 slim - still working, sometimes shuts down after 3-4 hours of GTA V due to overheating

Originally Posted by JustinBbad

I can not say this is exclusively the reason I've gone with Sony, but it damn sure is an enormously large reason. I am also still pissed about the $100 wireless dongle for the 360. And to think of it, all the stupid proprietary accessories the 360 used.

These things bothered me immensely as well.

Dat proprietary hard drive. Christ.