I've had four failures, but I think it's because I bought a lot of my consoles secondhand. In order:
1x PS1 stopped reading discs
1x Dreamcast with failed disc drive (this one was new, so extra bummer)
1x Xbox 360 with RROD
1x PS3 with YLOD (This happened way after I initially purchased, like 2019 maybe)
I had a ton of consoles growing up and they never failed, most 80's and 90's consoles were built like tanks.
1. N64 - Kinda died, but was my fault. As I was taking out Goldeneye out of the system, the actual board broke off and had to get a new N64 (couldn't get the board out) and a new Goldeneye. At the time I was devastated.
2. Xbox 360 - While it lasted through most of the it's the console's lifecycle, my original Xbox 360 red-ringed, but this was after I got a new Xbox 360 (Elite).
3. Xbox Series X - 24 hours after getting it, the system somehow got overloaded and the PSU went. I had a new Series X a week later because Microsoft's support team kicks ass.
That's. The rest had just died due to age or are just in storage somewhere.
I had 3, 360's RROD on me. I take great care of all my hardware. They were fixing them for free, but on the third I said fuck it. Abandoned them entirely until Series X last year.
The early consoles werent technically mine as they were family systems. First one I bought with my own money was SNES.
Intellivision - ok
NES - ok
Genesis - ok
SNES - ok
(well look at that, all the old ass cartridge systems worked)
PS1 - needed to do upside trick, then eventually it barely worked unless I kept trying for 15 minutes and maybe it would work. it got to a point I just gave it to a coworker
PS2 - ok
360 - RROD after 6 years. That 20 gb pro system almost lasted to X1. It would RROD in year 6, but I could still play. But just like PS1 upside down it got worse and worse and finally barely worked. Skyrim seemed to kill the system as it would always bomb at a loading screen
X1 - ok
X1X - couldnt get past the initial patch update. Stalled at 98%
XSX - ok
At the time when I owned a PSP (1000) it randomly stopped charging one day (after 2-3 years or so) and was basically dead. Dead screen and no power but only a LED when plugged in. Replaced with a slim 2000 model refresh.
Tbf I did take it everywhere with me and thrown in my bag a lot, so most likely my fault.
My colecovision died but the console market was dead by then so it didn’t matter (especially since I had a C64). My original Xbox died the moment I plugged it in for the first time (got it replaced the same day at walmart). I had 2 Xbox 360s die on me due to its faulty design. My 3rd one was a newer revision but I didn’t want to take the chance, so I sold it and stuck with my PS3 for the rest of the generation. Man that gen really sucked early on, 360s failing and the PS3 too expensive.
on christmas i got a bad og xbox. I was so sad. Costco wasn't near by so it took a couple days to swap it out. I do remember playing it on the mini tv in our family Suburban plus the hotel afterwords with my brothers tho so that was a core memory.
Same xbox that I modded got broke somehow while I was away. I suspect my dad moved it into storage aggro haha.
40 here, never had a console die/malfunction in my gaming life. From my original Atari, Commodore 64, NES, Mega Drive etc. To launch PS1, PS2 and even PS3. I also had a 360 at one stage, wasn't keen on Xbox back then but that also had no issues. I mean I did have to blow in my NES cartridges and shit like that lol but no actual malfunctions that needed to get fixed.
I'm always perplexed by the people who have multiple consoles die like going through 4 or 5 360's. I always felt like I must be taking care of my stuff better than others.
Currently my PS4. It got a corrupted database somehow. It still turns on and can(?) still boot games, but the interface is super laggy. After awhile it just turns off by itself, but doesn't seem to be from overheating.
It could be an HDD issue and was also looking into buying a new motherboard, but in the end just decided to start saving for a PS5.
3x Dreamcast - Unable to read discs.
2x PS3 fat - 1 YLOD and 1 Firmware Brick.
1x 2DS - Left it near a window during German winter, the thing had water inside it.
1x PS4 fat - Ejecting discs very often, clean up didn’t help.
1 Ylod PS3, 1 rrod 360 (multiple time btw, 3 in total I believe), 1 modded PS2 burned itself, 1 ps5 drive died, and a couple of game gears smashed as a kid
I had two 360 and two PS3 dying on me. This generation was really unreliable.
Otherwise it was minor things that could be fixed easily, so not really worth noting. My Saturn and Mega-CD still work flawlessly. I do have some issues with my Dreamcast though.
I had an Amiga CD32 stop loading games. Left it in a cupboard for a couple of months and it started working Ok again. I've owned off the top of my head: Sega Saturn, SNES, N64, Dreamcast, OG Xbox, Xbox 360, X1X, XSX, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS4 Pro, PS5 and none of them have had issues. Though many of those I've sold within a year for one reason or another. My XSX disc drive is very noisy, though its been like that since launch.
i had 2 and a half 360s die on me during the RROD, and I had a fatty ps2 and fatty ps3 die on me late late in their life cycles as in like 8 - 9 years later, so far sega and nintendo are holding out strong to this day with no issues.
I still remember this day... I was playing Dante's Inferno and then the console just died. I tried to fix it aiming a hot hairdryer to the GPU, but the repair only lasted for 30 min