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What game consoles have died on you?

I had a launch 360 that never messed up once. Sold it to get one of the new models with the hdmi port and it died within a month. Had the old put a ps1 on its side because of the drive dying. Faulty gpu on the Wii causing artifacts on the screen. But the one that hurt the most was when my launch dreamcast finally died. I had that chipped so I could play imports and everything. Now my house of the dead import with the official sega gun just sits on my shelf and laughs at me
 
PS2- discs stopped reading a lot of the time, got it fixed (no charge), have not had any issue since.

360 (twice)- Red ring once and another 2 ring. I had to pay for the repairs both times since it broke the second time just after the warranty ended. Awful.

Only handheld I've ever had issues with is 3DS. My 3DS had problems at launch (squeaky d-pad and sound was only coming out of one speaker) so I sent it in for repair, haven't had issues since.
 
360 broke on me twice (first time was literally a week before Halo 3 came out). I have owned every console (as they were coming out) from NES to now and haven't had any problems. I don't count my first PS4 because it technically didn't break it just started getting heat issues and i didn't want to deal with taking it apart so i sold it to a friend who was ok with all that and got that white destiny one which i was going to buy anyways.
 
My phat PS3 got the yellow light of death.

My second hand JP Slim PS2 is starting to have minor disc reading issues. Right now I just apply a heavy weight on it and it then reads (and plays) discs just fine.

That's about it, though. Have plenty of old consoles that still work fine. (They're all second hand, though). I have a suspicion that the NES might actually be refurbished...
 
old gray Playstation - nephew poured water on it
60GB fat PS3 with PS2 BC - YLOD
Dreamcast - no idea how it broke
Game Gear - no display with sound
 
None although my Genesis barely works because the power connector port on the console is busted and the cord has to be in a specific spot for the system to power on.
 
"1" fat launch BC PS3. Yellow light of death. Out of warranty so I replaced the PSU but it died again after 3-4 months of infrequent use.
3 PS2's. 2 from Disc Read Errors. Frakensteined a third one together from the parts of the first two but calibrating the faulty laser got too annoying. Said fuck it and bought a slim that still works. Funny thing is, my brother's launch fat is still trucking; I have it and the hdd/ethernet adaptor combo squirreled away in storage.
2 PSX's. Ended up having to keep them on their sides, but not even that saved them.
1 NES. Old age :(
 
My 60GB BC PS3 died on me when I bought the PS4 lol. I wasn't upset though it lasted the whole generation lol.

I ended up buying a slim PS3 because I needed a second controller and more space anyway.
 
My launch GameCube started giving DREs in Smash Bros. just before my 1-year warranty ran out.

PS3 60GB YLOD'd after about 6+ years of ownership, bought right after the $100 post-launch price drop. Went straight to a Super Slim and never looked back.

And my original Game Boy got dead lines in the LCD screen.

I've fared pretty well. I owned a 360 "arcade" once and got rid of it long before it even had a chance to croak on me.


But I also work in a game store and I know the trends from experience. The worst culprits are probably:
- PS2s w/DREs (mostly large models)
- Xbox 360 RROD (again, mostly large models)
- PS1 Overheating/DRE issue
- Xbox 360 "S" AC adapter cooking itself to death
- Well-worn NESes failing to read carts
- Broken R (or L) button on Nintendo handhelds GBA SP and forward
- Game Boy original screen getting dead lines
- Game Gear screen almost impossible to see
- Game Gear going mute
- SNES AC adapter port breaking off
- Official N64 controller analog sticks cheerfully degrading into pieces of complete garbage (okay this is a little out of scope but still; I've warned countless people to NOT play Mario Party 1 with official controllers at this point)
...and maybe a couple others I've forgotten.
 
PS3 phat once.
Xbox 360 RROD 3x
Xbox One just the other week.

Everything from my Atari 2600 to my PS2 still works fine though.
 
Not necessarily died:
PS1 - Disc Read Error. Replaced the lens 4 times.
GCN - Disc Read Error. Replaced the lens once.
PS2 Slim - Disc Read Error. Replaced the lens twice.

Died:
Xbox 360 - RROD. Tried every fix possible, but no dice.
PS3 Slim - YLOD. Took me by surprise after owning it for 4 years.
Bootleg Famicom - Fried. Probably went through 6 of them in total.
 
I think 2 x PS1 and 2 x PS2, all DRE, but that's hardly surprising.
1 x PSP due to L button.

What surprises me is the NDS. It dies on me after 2 years with a fail L/R button, while the SNES still works last year when I try to boot up SMK. @@!
 
Dreamcast video out stopped working

360 RROD

PS3 60gb gpu failure

Xbox one's kinect broke a couplw wks after launch. System was fine though.

That's about it. Not too bad overall.
 
had to straight up fix my PS2 laser alignment every few months for certain games, was so annoying I eventually stopped fully assembling it back together to make things easier and then eventually switched entirely to HD loader. Best PS2 Mod.

360 got RROD 1 month after warranty ended... but I was ok with upgrading to the slim model, so much nicer.
 
My launch 360 RROD covered by MS no cost to me.
My launch PS3 YLOD a week outa warranty I kid you not. $100 to Sony :(

I have my NES I got in 86 for Christmas still today and final fixed it with a Blicking light win!
 
I had a ps2 die and after a few years booted it up again to discover it now worked. I dont know why and i dont know how.

Also had a ps3 ylod a few times. As it had an emotion chip, cfw and a 1tb hdd i paid to get it reballed and reflowed two or three times (but never again). Too scared to touch it now but i really want to play ni no kuni.

Also picked up a doa mgs edition ps4 if that counts, replaced it with another which is still going i think. I dont even use the thing.
 
My Wii started acting weird and freezing up when the fan broke, causing it to overheat. Fixed it personally and haven't had any problems since.

NES barely works. I have to reset it 101 times before a game actually plays, and if I bump it slightly, I'm fucked.

My mini SNES straight up stopped turning on.

Most of my other systems had physical issues, especially the handhelds, but nothing that directly impeded the base hardware. Glad the rest works just fine.

Also, one of my 64s has a penny stuck inside of it and I have no idea how it got in there or how to get it out.
 
0/1xNES
0/1xSMS
0/1xSNES
0/1 GENESIS
0/1 TG-16
0/1 GAMEBOY
0/1 SEGACD
0/1 N64
0/1 DREAMCAST
0/2 GBA (OG and SP)
0/1 GCN
1/1 XBOX180 (disc drive died, then served as X3 modded XBMC box for 5+ years after that)
0/2 PS2 (all fats)
2/3 Wii (one bad disc drive, one bad vram, dumped the 3rd on GameStop just because)
1/3 NDS (L button died on NDSL. 2nd NDSL & DSi OK)
0/1 PSP
5/6 XBOX360 (RRoD galore, dumped 6th on Best Buy)
0/4 PS3 (1xOG, 2xSlim, 1xSSlim. Still going strong.)
0/2 N3DS (OG and N3DSXL)
0/1 VITA
0/1 PS4
 
My 2 Vitas: One was stolen, the other had a faulty battery which eventually refuse to hold a charge.
My 3DS XL: Bottom screen touch detection went wild even though I was very careful with the unit.
Ironically, my 2nd-hand PSP-1000 I bought back in 2007 is STILL running strong. Got thousands of hours on Dissidia, MH and P3P with that thing.
 
Nintendo GameCube. Was stationed in Alaska and picked one up along with Madden, but the damn thing kept dying. I went through 3 of them before I said fuck it and bought an Xbox.
 
Three PS1s, two PS2s, a Gamecube, a launch 360, and a DS Lite. It boggles my mind that so many people call MS hardware shitty. I've gotten nothing but grief from Sony stuff. I've got a PSP 3000 and a PS3 slim, but I've intentionally avoided using them much. That might be why they've not died on me.

I don't count the NES and SNES failures, since those are easy fixes, and I don't count PC failures since I can't consider it a gaming machine.
 
I have had NES, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Advance, DS, N64, Xbox 360, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Wii U, PS1, PS2, and PS3. The only system to ever break on me was my Original PS3 and it figures its one of the only consoles that I would never want to break due to its crazy backwards compatibility. It just randomly stopped turning on a few years ago. I replaced it with a PS3 slim but it sucked that Original PS3 had to be the only system I ever had that just died on me.
 
My PS1 still works in a sense, since it's just the lens that needs changing and I've been too lazy to do it(not to mention I just play them on my Vita)

My fat ps2 broke because it was placed high and someone tripped over a wire and dragged it down to the floor (kinda my fault for placing it in a bad position)

My PSP motherboard got fried from electricity surge while charging (I still can't believe this one....)

Other than that, never a problem
 
Any used CD based system I bought eventually crapped out on me. I got a used GC once and the games wouldn't even start. My first PS was in pretty bad shape to begin with, and it just got worse over time. I don't mind buying used but I never do it for disc based consoles.
 
4 Xbox 360's. This console gets a lot of praise that I don't think it deserves as it was such a badly designed piece of junk. It wasn't even my primary platform either, so it didn't even see that much use. I take good care of my stuff usually, so that was the only console that has ever died on me IIRC, and I have had every major one since the Mega Drive (except the Dreamcast, Saturn and the Wii-U).

Correctomundo said:
TIt boggles my mind that so many people call MS hardware shitty.
Click to expand...

Really?
 
Just an NES but it was old as hell and was in constant use. Never even had a 360 die on me while a friend of mine literally went through nine of them.
 
NES: stopped reading games.

SNES: same as above.

XBox: not reading games and lockups.

PS3 60gb: flickering and lockups.

PS3 500gb: stopped reading BDs
 
Multiple PS2 and Xbox 360 systems have fallen in my many years. Some quite literally onto the floor due to sibling clumsiness.

We had a PS3 60gb die on us about a year ago too. =(

Can't say I've ever had a Nintendo or SEGA system go on me yet. Our old consoles are still miraculously hanging in there despite many years of wear and tear.
 
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