Sony, maker's of defective products!

[DoesWhatNintenDont]

I've been in the gaming industry since I was young. Bar none, the "Worst Quality for Hardware" award I have ever bought belong to Sony for both PS(one) and PS2.

I remember having to play all of my PS(one) games by literally flipping the console upside down after starting it up. Mind you, the console was never dropped, had anything spilled on it and so forth. I just gave out loading unless I flipped it upside down.

I was too poor to buy -another- PS(one) when I was a young teen, so if it wasn't for reading about this "trick" in PSM magazine I would have tossed my Playstation in the trash. Rather tragic that such a problem was widespread enough that magazines had to publish articles about it.

But, eventually even the trick stopped working and I had to get the slim PSone.

When PS2 came around, I expected better hardware overall. I was at least going to give Sony some credit as perhaps just starting out in the industry they made some poor mistakes. I was wrong as I wound up having to buy three--yes three-- PS2's!

Personally, after the first one died on me, I was going to give up, but I have a wife who is also a gamer (total bonus!), so she insisted on buying the console a few times because she had many RPG's she loved to play on it.

Two consoles - Five units!

This is one of the primary reasons I can not justify spending $600 for PS3. Especially since my original NES from 85' still works great; And it -has- taken some falls and bumps over the years. I was playing the heck of out “Mike Tyson's Punchout!” last month.