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Personally, I can say my consoles have historically survived pretty well as well, but there are some exceptions.

I've owned a SNES, N64, 2 PS2's, 2 GCN's, Xbox, 2 Wii's, Wii U, 2 360 Elites, 1 360 Slim, & an 80 gig PS3.

The only ones that broke on me were my fat PS2, my OG Gamecube, and my original 360 Elite (which I replaced for free)

Me neither. Never had a console that failed.

Almost every system I bought failed on me at some point except for the PS2 and that includes:
Famicom
Sega Geneses
PS1
PS3
Wii

only my ps2 has borked, but that was after what must have been thousands of hours of use. still haven't replaced it, still haven't played persona 4. one day!

OP's consoles will fail tomorrow, confirmed. How naive can you get.

Only unit I ever had fail on me was my Crystal Xbox. Watching a DVD one day, suddenly it completely hangs and the light turns from green to yellow. It wouldn't boot after that.

I also never had a USB stick that didn't work, until 2 of mine died in the same week. These things do happen.

I'm the same as OP, everything still works last I checked. Sometimes NES games booted with weird colors but the good old blowing on the cartridge always worked.

Now that I said this my PS3 will likely not work when I get home to play diablo.

"if you buy a broken console but you never use it - is it really broken?" - Xx_conf00cius_xX

Originally Posted by CronoShot

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

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I had 3 PS2s stop reading discs. My PS3 died after about 6 years (bought a new slim). My 360 died after around 3 (got a free repair).

Originally Posted by Yagharek

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

Thank you....

PS1, PS3 first gen, 360 elite died on me.

I've own/owned an NES, PSX, PSone, PS2, Wii, PS3, Game boy Pocket, Game Boy Advance SP, Game Boy Micro, Nintendo DS lite and 3DS. Of those, the only console to die on me was the PS3 a couple of months ago. I never used it much to be honest, only when my friends came over for PES tournaments. It got the YLOD and could not be repaired.

Other than that, the other consoles work just fine. Every now and then I plug in the old NES to al old CRT to play SMB3 for a little nostalgia.

The only time I broke something was when I tripped on a PS1 controller cord. It sent the console crashing onto the floor and never turned on again. Luckily it was still under warranty, hah.

Had my Playstation die about a year before PS2 came out. Don't remember how many years I had it, but it had a huge number of hours on it. Disc stopped spinning, I remember giving it a quick spin to get it up to speed, but eventually that stopped being enough.

it's never happened to me either (and I've owned 6 360 consoles in total) I think many that it happens to leave the consoles on either deep shag carpets that block vents, or dirty environments. The floor lets much more dust into consoles.

I've had 2 PS3s break on me, my phat got ylod in 09, and my slim stopped reading discs last year (luckily I knew someone who fixed it). I'm not gonna mention if I ever got RRoD because..... who hasn't had theirs break?

And yet I still have a SNES that still works.

OP started a thread just to victim blame people who've had broken consoles


...i kinda respeck dat

Me neither.

Careful-GAF representing

Never had a console die on me either. Still have my 2008 360 working too!

OP has never owned an Xbox 360. Confirmed.

Originally Posted by MoGamesXNA

OP has never owned an Xbox 360. Confirmed.

I owned one for about 2 weeks in '07, and for a year from '08 to '09. Only really played SF4 on it though for a month.

Most consoles I've owned eventually died.

Atari 2600/5200 - don't actually remember, think they died
Colecovision - lasted quite a while, gave it away
Coleco ADAM - piece of shit tape drive died
Turbo Grafx 16 - the connector for the A/C adapter broke rendering it somewhat usable (you had to really play with the adaptor and tape it up just right), gave it away
Genesis - I think worked fine when we gave it away
Playstation - lasted quite a while, disc drive failed slowly so it was upside down the last few years of it's life.
PS2 - gave my original one to my little brothers when I moved, my replacement still works I think but they definitely killed the original
X360 - RROD, repaired, then another RROD, sold
PS3 - launch 60gb died after a few years, replacement slim going strong

It's worth pointing out I have 4 little brothers. Our game consoles had about the most/hardest use imaginable, the PSX for example was used for 6+ hours a day, every day, for years. The boys would use it as soon as they got home from school, then I'd get home from work at 11pm and play for hours.

I don't think i've had a console mess up on me, but games have. To this day I wonder how my DKC cart messed itself up.

I've never had a console break either. Master System, Mega Drive, PS1, PS2 and PS3 all fine. I've only had a PC break on me.

PS2 has some problems with DVD movies but games are fine.

I've never had a system that just stopped working outright. My PS2 gives like ten DREs before it finally plays games, but it'll work. It's still pretty stupid to assume that people who have faulty or failing consoles must have done something to them. I've seen enough things fail around the house (like a monitor that was a just a few weeks old) to know that sometimes it's just luck of the draw. :/ It's not like I'm particularly careful with my systems, either, they're dusty as hell.

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.

Launch 360s were for instance ticking timebombs no matter how well you kept them. Sure you'll have a few people who anecdotally got one on launch day and it still runs, but that doesn't make them any better caretakers of their consoles, it's just luck of the draw.

Other consoles also have the failure rates you'd expect of electronics. Even if you do nothing wrong, in a few years a percentage of XBO/PS4 hard drives will have failed, that's just fact. Other components will have as well. Again, it's luck of the draw, and there's no need for this feeling of superiority.

Atari (passed down from Dad) - still works
NES (passed down from cousin) - died in late 90s
NES (top load) - still works
Gameboy - still works
Genesis - still works
N64 - still works
PS1 (passed down to sister) - still works
PS2 (given to friend) - still works
PS3 (launch) - died Blinking Red Lights in 2011
PS3 (slim) - still works
Vita - no issues
PS4 - no issues

I used to think that way, but my luck/product quality has taken a turn for the worse in the past decade. I had my home audio amp display burnt out (under warranty), a quality car amp start to fail, and a nice wrist watch that got moisture in it too easily (under warranty). I just got a replacement back, but it had a broken winding spring that I'm assuming quality control probably missed.

I'm thinking about turning Amish.

Consoles that Died:

Launch PS2
2 360 consoles.

That's it for me, thankfully.

I've only had problems with 360. Every single time it was a problem with the disc drive laser, not overheating, which is weird. Probalby cause I'm lazy and keep that shit idling like 24 hours a day or something. Who knows.

The last time it happened I wasn't under warranty though, so I learned how to fix it myself with some sautering.

Never had a problem with any other system though.

Had to replace my original xbox disc drive once. Then I resorted to replacing only the laser itself two more times by ordering cheap chinese replacement parts off of eBay.

I had to re-adjust my friends 3 ps2 lasers. He eventually let me have one of the ps2's for fixing all 3. Why he bought 3 baffles me.

My 360 died due to rrod. I eventually had to wrap it in a towel for 30 min for it to work.

Originally Posted by CronoShot

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

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My Sega Genesis' died on me so many times. I probably owned 10 of them or more.

Same goes for PS1 and PS2 and PS3 and SNES and Gameboy and Xbox.

Shit breaks eventually. Sad for my PS4 already for the day it dies.

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.

Sounds like you never owned a system plagued by the bad capacitor batches of the late '80s, early '90s.

What a casual.

They've all worked, though had some kinks to them.

Our Dreamcast worked fine playing games, but the memory card in the controller slot stopped reading so we couldn't play games anymore.

I've had an entire Gamecube memory card crap out with tons of saves on it, and a few of the systems have ran their course. Pretty sure we wound up with like 3 of them, as the original stopped working.

My Wii had an issue connecting to Wifi initially, and the family 360 will scratch discs if you move it while it's on or put it on a certain side (and it's not a launch 360 either- bought after all the kinks were supposed to be figured out).

The PS4 I bought was freaking out, but besides some Hulu glitching it's not done it again.

Originally Posted by akaoni

I owned one for about 2 weeks in '07, and for a year from '08 to '09. Only really played SF4 on it though for a month.

Lack of playtime and a quick turnover of hardware might have something to do with your impression of reliability.

To be fair, I used to victim blame as well as I'd never had a single piece of gaming hardware fail for 25 years...until my five Xbox 360s came along and showed me the error of my ways.

My PS2 and Dreamcast shit the bed a few years ago. They had been unplugged for a while and then - poof - just didn't turn on one day.

By contrast, my NES, SNES and N64 all still work. I love Nintendo for their until label hardware. The SNES even survived an electrical surge that killed everything else plugged into the surge protector back in the day.

Originally Posted by Yagharek

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

Yup, I've never had a system break either, my sega 16 bit still works too
Until I bought a 360 in early 2007 that is.

I've had far too many crap out on me (Some DOA). And I treat my electronics like royalty.

Mostly from the last two gens.

Originally Posted by Farrow

I've had far too many crap out on me (Some DOA). And I treat my electronics like royalty.

As a collector with OCD: I do the same. It's particularly frustrating having console hardware fail on you that exists in an ideal environment.

Anyone who says this never owned an early 360. I wet through four in my first six months.

I have had my Wii U break as well. My first Nintendo console to do so, after owning them all.

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.

Perhaps they used them for more than a month.

My NES died in 1999 or 2000, I was a kid but I took so much care of it. Never had any other system die on me.

Xbox 360 - 100% failure rate.

My first one died on 9/11/07. Never forget.

Originally Posted by Nemesis121

Playstation is the least reliable system i have owned..
Nintendo and Sega most reliable never had one of break on me..

Same here. Launch PS1 only worked upside down after a while - even after adjusting the laser - then died. Same with my launch PS2, which began scratching discs before it totally gave in; both of those got replaced. Model 1 Genesis, however, with headphone jack and volume slider, still works like a charm to this day.

360 got RROD in 2009. Bought it in 2007.

SNES shorted out because I put a nickel inside it via the eject button. It actually took years for it to stop working after I did that, but when I got it repaired they said it was the cause. I forget why I decided to do that, but I was a kid so...

Me neither, though I don't do all those things that you have described:

SNES: Shelved, but worked last time I used it.
PS1: Same as SNES.
PS2: Fat model, works flawlessly.
X360: Fat model. Bought in 2008, worked until I sold it in December 2012.
PS3: Super Slim with 500HDD. It works... obviously.
DS Lite: Still works. I haven't used it that much, though.
PSP 1000: Worked until I sold it.
PSVita: Second hand, hope it keeps working as long as my other systems.

I lost my GBA SP and my OG GBA screen got broken (it still worked, but the only thing i could see was a rainbow... xD)