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What game consoles have died on you?

NES: infamous flashing grey screen. gotta get new pins for it.

Original Game Boy: Screen randomly died

Sega Genesis: Model 1 just stopped working for no reason

SNES: my cat pushed it off of the top of my old TV wall unit

PS1: i had to put it upside down for it to work.

PS2: two fat models got the infamous blue disc read error. the lens on my slim just stopped working completely for some reason.

OG Xbox: I was using the old power cord (i fucked up) and it got fried. Started to smell burning rubber and then it just broke.

Xbox 360: OG model got the infamous red ring of death.

Hopefully I will never have to update this list.
 
Had my PS1 get close to death on me, had to turn it upside down to play anything in it, but it was still working.

Had a PS2 stop reading blue discs. Would still play other discs fine.

Had a 360 RROD. That was fixed just fine by Microsoft.

Had to clean the pin connector in my NES, but it still works just fine.

Had a fuse blow on my Sega CD, got the stuff you fix it, but used another one I picked up instead.

My Xbox One disc drive send to be giving out, but with persistence still seems to read them.

Have a Jag CD that I haven't been able to get to work. Was bought new, but never got it to boot up a game. Think this might actually be the Jaguars fault though as it is picky when playing carts.

Still have a launch 60GB PS3 that works, launch GBA works, launch N64 still works, SNES from a year or two after launch still works, same with Genesis from same time. GBAs all still work, along with Saturn and Dreamcast. Have a DSLite that has a broken hinge, but still works. Have a launch XBox that still works and an XBox that lived in Iraq for a couple of years that works after cleaning it out.

NES: infamous flashing grey screen. gotta get new pins for it.
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. Try boiling the pins that are in it first. Takes a little over a half hour altogether and will probably fix the problem. There are videos and everything, but really it is just getting the water to a boil, putting the connector in and flipping it every minute or so for five minutes, sticking a cartridge in it a couple dozen times and doing that again. Make sure you don't actually let it just sit in there the whole time since there is plastic and you should be good.
 
Every Sony home console I've owned has had the optical drive die on me at some point.

I fully expect the trend to continue with the PS4K whenever I get one.
 
I replaced my 360 three (maybe it was four?) times. Only console I've ever had to replace.
 
Went through 2 Xbox 360s and my launch day PS3 got the yellow light of death after 6 years of use. The slim I bought to replace it though is still running fine.
 
PS1, PS2 and 60GB PS3. We went through 3-4 of the PS1 and PS2, and had the PS3 fixed an equal number of times. But we treated our PS1s and PS2s pretty badly. I broke our previous PS2 while trying to mod it. It still makes me feel really bad to this day.
 
A 2011 Xbox 360 slim. Was kinda surprised by this since I still have (2) functional launch 360s which work perfectly. Been pretty lucky otherwise, knock on wood.
 
My PS3 fat had a ylod and trapped my Uncharted 2 game.
My PS1 grey does not want to read games anymore and has a small power supply issue.
 
Nothings ever really died on me. Like flatlined.

However, my 360 had a weird fucking problem im sure was caused by the halo 3 beta. The graphics card mustve started shorting out, I could see fine, but the colours were all wrong. I waited until after the beta ended to send my 360 away.
 
My SNES died when my younger brother put the region converter in backwards. Thankfully was sent of to Nintendo for a relatively quick fix. So that got broken rather than died of its own accord I guess.

Lost 2 360's to RROD and my launch PS3 died of YLOD.

I do still have a stack of perfectly working consoles stretching all the way back to the MegaDrive though.
 
My launch Gamecube stopped reading discs after about two months, it was repaired under warranty.
My launch Dreamcast stopped reading discs after a couple of years, I'm pretty sure I wore it out from excessive use.
I had a BC 80gb PS3 get the YLOD.
My original 360 had its GPU get fried after the warranty expired, I replaced it, and then went through five RROD's that were repaired in warranty.
 
lets see

a had like 2 ps2 that had the disc real issue (then i tried to fix it) body count: 2

i had 1 xbox360 that RROD on me (but that one i did fix)

i had a ps3 get the ylod, then my friend tripped over my 2nd ps3, killing it body count: 2

total: 4
 
-Several 360s though to be fair they have been bought cheaply with a RROD and heatgunned so I actually did 'profit' from the bad quality.

-60gb PS3 got the YLOD. Repaired it once successfully with a heatgun, second time not so much. Because opening it up was such a bitch compared to the 360, I just got a cheap slim off my brother.

-One of our PS2s had a non working fan after some time. We just added a USB fan.
 
Fat PS2 started refusing to read/detect discs when I was playing Kingdom Hearts. It became a very frustrating process of removing and reinserting the disc for like 5-10 minutes before I could finally play. Sometimes I'd just leave the PS2 on with the game on instead of turning it off while I went to school or wherever, but I was afraid that leaving it on all the time would just make the disc reading worse in the long run. This led to me buying a slim PS2 which was the first console I ever bought with my own money.

Launch model 360 got the red rings of death after having it for maybe 6 months. At that time, Microsoft only had a 3 month warranty, which they later changed to a 1 year warranty covering RRoD, which by that point I'd had the system for over a year, so was still a useless change for me. Eventually they changed it so RRoD was covered for 3 years and I was able to send the system in and they sent me back a 360 with a newer manufacture date that I didn't have issues with.

Other than those two, I haven't really had any dying issues with other consoles, and I've had most of the main ones from NES onwards. My first Playstation eventually got to the point where it would sometimes get jittery animation and skips when playing videos, but by that point I had a PSOne and slim PS2 that I'd usually play PS1 games on instead.

Edit: Just remembered that when I first got a Dreamcast, I bought a used one from Electronics Boutique that stopped working after a couple days, so I took it back and they gave me a different one that gave me no problems. Still had me a bit paranoid so not long after thatI bought another used Dreamcast from them for $15.
 
Original NES (after about 25 years), original Game Boy, launch PlayStation 3 (yellow light), launch Xbox 360 (and 2nd, and 3rd replacements), and one dead out of the box PlayStation 4 at launch (replaced for free of course, still going strong).

Some started acting really janky like the PS1 having to be turned upside down to play anything and NeoGeo Pocket Color barely reading cartridges.
 
None, actually. My little sister stepped on my Game Boy Colour and broke the screen, which I don't think counts as "died" because that's more "killed." I did brick a PSP trying to hack it, but that barely counts for the same reason.
 
3 of my Xbox 360 have died on me
them red rings, man
, and one Gamecube. But every other console is still alive thank god.
 
Hmm...

Sega Genesis
Sega Nomad
Super Nintendo (same day as the Genesis)
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Wii (again)
Nintendo DSlite
Nintendo DSlite (again)
Nintendo DSlite(again again)
Nintendo 3DS
Playstation 3 (slim)
Playstation 4 (on release date, i was so mad)

Nintendo has the worst QC at least for me, or most "accident prone" designs.
 
nillah said:
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Still can't believe people subjected their consoles to this...
 
This would be more of a manufactures' issue, but I had gotten an original Xbox on launch and when I turned it on it made this clinging noise. A screw apparently was out of place and it was hitting the fan. I got it replaced.

I had the RROD on my Xbox 360 the first week or so of launch. I called 1-800-4MY-XBOX and they sent me a box to ship my console to them. I had it happen again and they even sent me a new hard drive. It was a terrible experience. I was so use to calling their support number that I noticed when Max (their pre-recorded support personality) showed up.

I had a launch PS2 that had a hard time reading discs, but I think the issue was already known. It at least had issues running blue backs.
 
360 - just stopped reading discs. Had it repaired.

PS3 60GB - YLOD the night before the Uncharted 2 beta. Traded the 360 + games/accessories for the slim.

Sega Genisis - was going to do a retro game night a few years ago, turned it on and it started smoking.
 
My 360, then another 360, then another 360.
All of them with RROD.
The first one hurt badly because I had purchased it in the US and didn't have any warranty in my country. The other 2 were at least replaced for free... though it took MS 1-2 months to replace it each time. And that sucked. One died after like 3 hours of Ninja Gaiden 2, which I was super hyped about and had gotten for my birthday. I finally had the game and I had to wait a month for my replacement unit until I could finish it.


But other than that I've been lucky with consoles. No other home console or handheld console has died on me.

The only other system that has given me and issue is my ps4 which has a dead ethernet port (something I only realized long after my waranty expired because my router has only been close to my ps4 for a few months. It used to be too far away to use a wired connection)


REDSLATE said:
Still can't believe people subjected their consoles to this...
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Mine had no warranty. So I pretty much had nothing to lose.
I tried a lot of Internet tricks but they didn't work for me
 
PS4 made a loud pop and completely failed for me. Real pain in the ass, but at least the new version has no gloss and has actual buttons, so I guess it evens out.

EDIT: Also, a Wii once broke on me because I was playing Brawl non-stop until it just gave out.
 
360 was the only one I ever had come close to dying on me.

I promptly sold it to Gamestop while it was still on its deathbed.

There's some irony there since the controller is one I've been using for over ten years now, yet I'm going through Dual Shock 4s like candy.
 
My previous answer was none, but I tested my Mega CD and...yeah it's dead. Doesn't even switch on. On the plus side, when I openend it up I found my long-lost copy of Sol-Feace inside!
 
Die? Technically, only my original NDS, but even then it was the shell that cracked and not the actual hardware itself.

That being said, my PSX has issues reading discs, my Xbox can't be turned off anymore, my launch 360 scratches my discs and randomly overheats and my 3DS has a scratched screen, botched charging port and busted control stick.
 
My Gamecube stopped reading disks, but it was second hand and I had a Wii anyway, and the only Gamecube disk I had was Super Smash Bros. Melee, so it didn't really bother me.

Lately my PS3 seems to be having trouble reading disks. It's a second hand PS3. I might try to get it repaired/replaced though at some point... I have a lot of PS3 games that I don't want to be unable to play.
 
360, wasn't even 2 years old, it's the only one that did. Well my original fat ps2 died too, but that lasted for almost eight years.

360, though, don't think I'll ever buy another MS console.
 
A Dreamcast, a Game Boy Advance and a Slim Playstation 2. Everything else is alive and well.

Nintendo hardware in particular are built like a fucking tank. My 64 has been through a lot in these 20 years and it's still great as new.
 
Ps2 DVD drive failed

360 RROD many times many fixes, ended up buying a slim

DS lite touch screen broke, fixed it with a new touch screen, but that failed again.

So, I've been equally burned by all companies, except SEGA, of which I own the most.
 
i'm sure this list would be bigger if i didn't buy "slim" releases before older models crapped out.

but my 360 died 4 times (first time only 9 months after purchase)
and my PS3 phat died once (about 4 years after purchase)

that's it.
 
Of my NES, SNES, PSX, DC, Gamecube, PS2, Wii, PS3, PS4, PSvita, GBA, DS, 2DS and N3DS, only my PS2 had issues. After about five years of intensive use it stopped booting DVD's, CD's were fine. Everything else worked for years. I've sold off most of them now, but I'm happy I never had any big issues.
 
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