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All my console problems happened during the time I got a "next gen" one, happened to my ps1 when I got a ps2, and my n64 when I got my GameCube. Now let's see if the same happens to my ps3...

I've gone through five 360s including one that red ringed right out of the box. Definitely wasn't anything I did in that case.

Luckily I haven't either. I still have an original ps1 and dreamcast that still work and I still use, also found my gameboy color and gameboy camera the other day

Edit: wow totally blanked out my 2 360s that RRoD on me, well besides those anyway

Wow I've never had one stop working working either but this thread is still terrible.

Did anyone have any issues with the Gamecube? They seem pretty indestructible

Treated my launch 60gb PS3 like the king it was. Still YLOD'd on me four years in, right on my fucking birthday.

Two Wii's in a row practically melted on me right at launch, too. RAM failures or something. So bizarre.

Originally Posted by Huggers

Did anyone have any issues with the Gamecube? They seem pretty indestructible

Mines disc laser stopped working after a while lol.

Originally Posted by haZethew0rld

Mines disc laser stopped working after a while lol.

Ah so perhaps 'indestructible' was pushing it a little

I've only had one system break, my launch GameCube. It was our fault though, we had it running for a week straight with Melee on a pretty crappy surface.

I pretty much treat my systems like royalty... had multiple PSX's with issues, had a Dreamcast that would barely read even brand new games, original 360 RROD'd on me (and looked as though it might a second time before I got rid of it), and my Wii's drive flat out stopped working and its fan made insanely loud noise.

Not a matter of mistreatment, especially in this day and age where quite frankly, the systems aren't built nearly as sturdy, not even the usually "you could drop a nuclear bomb on it and it'd still work" Ninty systems.

In any case, shit happens. *shrug*

...except in the case of the 360; the original was built pretty crappy. :-|

Did you own a launch PS2, 360 and PS3?

Originally Posted by JustAnotherOtaku

Did you own a launch PS2, 360 and PS3?

No.

Divine intervention.

Me neither. N64, GCN, Wii, PS2, PS3, GBC, GBA, DS all still work.

Originally Posted by JustAnotherOtaku

Did you own a launch PS2, 360 and PS3?

That's probably the main reason I don't own a launch console now.

When I was a kid, my SNES stopped displaying color for some reason. No idea why, picture was always in black and white. If I ejected the cartridge about 30 times, it would SOMETIMES play in color.

Originally Posted by Huggers

Did anyone have any issues with the Gamecube? They seem pretty indestructible

My Gamecube has travelled to 3 different continents (in a suitcase!)... it's a Japanese system that had a mod switch installed to make it play North American games that spent a few years in the UK and now lives in Canada. It's as good as new. I don't know what happened to Nintendo's hardware quality control after the GC.

my nes, snes, ps3 'fat', and 360 have allbeen bomb proof.

My pc is the only platform that needed maintenance/repairs
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Originally Posted by JustAnotherOtaku

Did you own a launch PS2, 360 and PS3?

Launch PS3. Still works like a beast. Never cleaned it either and it is pretty dusty and loud as hell during summer. But still works.

I think my PS3 is dying. When I try to watch netflix the screen starts to show flashes of snow and the audio cuts out. It make watching anything on Netflix impossible. However, if I play a PS3 game its fine. And after I play a PS3 game for a little bit and then start up Netflix everything is fine.

Whats going on?

2 dead 360s. One RRoD death. One death that provided a different error code several years later. I think it was a different heating problem? I would blame the poorly-ventilated shelving unit but all the other consoles survived.

And anecdotal evidence doesn't mean crap, OP. Even if 99.9% of consoles that leave the factory work perfectly for years, that's still thousands of crappy ones making it to store shelves.

I still have a launch 360 and a 60gb Ps3 still working


Never had a console die on me

Me too. I've had a ZX Spectrum, Amiga, MD, GameBoy, SNES, N64, PS1, PS2, Gamecube, DS Lite, Wii, Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U. Been lucky with them all, although I don't still have them all of course.

Things break. :) I have had a system break on me in every single gen except for Dreamcast and N64. Even my C64 had a busted sprite chip that gave every sprite a rainbow colour.

My first ps2 stopped reading games.

and I bought an XBOX (the first one) to play Shenmue , it stopped working before i got to finish the game :(

PS1,PS3,DS are still working

Hell my amiga 500 is still working as well. (must be 20 years old?)

all my consoles are working and still used to this day

NES - my mom has it and still plays Tetris on it
N64 - still worked half a year ago, when my wife played PKMN Snap
PS1 - my brother has it, no idea if he still plays it, but 1 or 2 years ago it still worked
PS2 - friend of my father got it a few weeks ago and his children play with it
FAT PS3 - mother-in-law uses it for Blu-Ray/DvD Movie Rentals
Slim PS3 - me and my wife still play it
super slim PS3 - my sister has it plays with it
Wii - working, last played summer this year

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GameBoy - it fell down the stairs, has been forgotten outside in the snow over night - still works
PSP - working, last played early 2013
PSVita - working, playing often (PS+ ftw)
3DS - working, last played PKMN X


no problem has been sightet

Step off your pedestal, people less fortunate aren't all unwashed heathens.

Had to get a new PS3 recently since the drive broke (and some other misc. issues).

Surprisingly my Elite Phat X360 is still running fine.

I treat all of my electronics like they are super expensive pieces of equipment... because they ARE. But I've had several die. I've had some that I were able to revive, and others not.

I still miss my 2600 =[

Me neither, until the PS3. Then i stopped using sony products for a while. I'm thinking on getting back now, but i still fell burned. My mega drive and N64 still work, dammit.

I've owned a system that stopped functioning - although it didn't stop functioning while I owned it. Original full BC PS3. The person who bought it had it re-flowed though and it's still running to this day.

Being wise and patient with one's tech purchases always pays dividends

This generation is the only time I have had systems break on me, and I've been gaming since the commodore 64. :)

My launch 360 died about 18 months after launch. I got a replacement, but then that eventually died in 2009, so I ended up getting an elite. I then later exchanged that elite for an S, and so far that's being doing well.

On the PS3 side of things. I had a USA launch system imported to the UK, so I could get it earlier (and cheaper) than the UK date and price. That lasted me so well, but earlier this year it died on me and I had to replace it with an super slim. :(

I used both systems extensively, since I play way too many games. :D

Originally Posted by Agent_Tiro

Spectrum ZX - Still works to this day (this day been when I tried it about 6 months or so ago)

I found my old ZX Spectrum a few years ago when I was clearing my parents loft and I had it playing Rama Rana, spiritual father of Dead Souls!

Then I threw it in a skip, I really wish I had kept it.

Originally Posted by TouchMyBox

Step off your pedestal, people less fortunate aren't all unwashed heathens.

Jacuzzi + PS4 (etc) is not a good idea.

Make your asses squeaky clean but you'll never wash off the salt in the end （´ー｀）

Originally Posted by Yagharek

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

Not a launch 360, but I bought one during the time when RROD was still prevalent (2007), and it never died on me although I just sold it back to Best Buy for $100.

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I've had only two (three?) systems break.

My PSone finally died after 4 years (disc wouldn't spin, but everything else worked) I attribute this to doing the swap trick often (even with the aid of external hardware).

My 360 (the first non-elite ones with HDMI) disc tray stopped working properly about...8 months after I got it.

The replacement got an RROD about a year after that.

After that hadn't had any issues with my 360, granted I haven't put a ton of time into it (I haven't powered it on in almost a year or so) but I had it for 2 years with no problems before it turned into an expensive paperweight (though it looks nice next to my white Saturn)

Speaking of Saturn, I own two of them (JP and NA) and they work perfectly; they are built like tanks.

My PS3 Superslim (and handhelds/PC) get the most play-time these days, the Superslim feels pretty damn cheap but I believe PS3s are pretty dependable so I'm not too worried. I don't know why build quality has gone down so much in the last 10 years or so.

Originally Posted by haZethew0rld

Mines disc laser stopped working after a while lol.

Did you try the trick of taking the system apart and lowering the resistance on the laser slightly? I remember that home made fix going around. Of course, if you lower the resistance too much you burn out the laser...

Originally Posted by stuminus3

I don't know what happened to Nintendo's hardware quality control after the GC.

IMHO, Made in China is what happened. Gamecube was last Nintendo console to be made in Japan.

Has anyone sent their fatty ps3 to be repaired? Is it still working today?

Commodore 64 - Still works as well as it ever did.
NES - Still works
SNES - Still the greatest machine ever made and literally indestructable.
Megadrive - Perfect.
PS1 - Disc drive works 50% of time now.
PS2 - Launch model still working fine, though doesnt like the blue compact discs, only likes the DVD discs of the later games.
Saturn - Smashed. By me. In a drunken moment of madness.
Dreamcast - Perfect collecting dust under my bed.
Xbox - Still works and never went under 50000 blocks of memory no matter how hard I tried.
Gamecube - I dont think it is possible to break.
360 - Suffered a RROD but then bought the super slim shiny version and it is now a bedroom DVD player.
PS3 - Still using 60GB launch model (With a 500GB HDD installed) and works perfectly though occassionally the fan will rev up to STUPID levels of loudness.
Wii - Never had a problem.
Wii U - Still new but never put serious hours in... except for Super Mario...

So in all.... my consoles havent been distressed either and I used to take them around the country visiting family when I was younger!

Though I am sure one day they will all die a horrible horrible death....

I have never owned a system that stopped working either (not counting PC ofc). I switched my almost launch 360 for the slim, but that was just to get a more quiet console. Maybe it is more likely to happen if you if you live in a warmer climate, considering that deficient cooling and components running hot is an important point of failure (I live in northern Sweden). Additionally, you might be more likely to have a console stop working if you are very into multiplayer games or other time consuming genres.

Everything since my Mega Drive (Genesis) still works to this day, except for two 360's that died from RROD.

My PS3 Phat has tried to die on me twice, at first the laser stopped reading discs so I had to hunt down a new laser on ebay, replaced it myself and it was working fine. Then earlier this year in summer the fans kept spinning up to full blast when playing games, so I've taken it apart and replaced the stock thermal paste and it's fine again now.

I know it wants to give up and make me replace it with a slim but I'm not letting it give up that easy!

Never had problems with my SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, GBA SP, GB Micro, DS, 3DS, PSP or my 120gb PS3.
The speaker of my GBC died (headphone jack still works) and my first PS2 would just randomly stop outputting video :(
My second PS2 still works perfectly fine.

In general super satisfied :)

Yep me too. My moded original PS1 broke a long time ago... but that's because a kid knocked it over. But otherwise I've never had a console stop working all-together (even my NES still works).

Originally Posted by Escape Goat

I think my PS3 is dying. When I try to watch netflix the screen starts to show flashes of snow and the audio cuts out. It make watching anything on Netflix impossible. However, if I play a PS3 game its fine. And after I play a PS3 game for a little bit and then start up Netflix everything is fine.

Whats going on?

That sounds more like a handshaking thing. Check your hdmi port or better yet swap cables an see if it makes a difference.

I've owned the following systems:

- Game Boy Color
- Mega Drive
- SNES
- PS1
- PS2
- PS3
- Nintendo DS
- Nintendo DSi
- PSP
- Vita

And none of them ever broke down. In fact the only one out of all of them that suffered a hardware failure was my Game Boy Color, the speaker died after 10+ years of use (but I can still get sound through headphones and I always play with headphones anyway so it's no big deal).

I've been gaming since the Atari 2600 and the only consoles that stopped working on me was my launch 360 (after 5 years) and my launch PS4.

This thread baffles me... I never get why people buy a new console when the old one isn't broken yet? ( eg: ps2 - ps2 slim)