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I've been extremely lucky so far, the only issue i've had has been YLOD on my 60GB PS3

didn't fix it, got a new slim one.



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My Gamecube stopped reading my disc's around 2 or 3 years ago.

My Ps2 sometimes didn't read my memory card.

Ps1 broke around the time the ps2 came out.



Since the Saturn?  I don't think I have many problems.

  • SNES - It only recently stopped working, though it still kind of works.
  • PS1 - Still works fine
  • Dreamcast - Still works fine
  • PS2 - Works about 60% of the time, the other 40% I get the red screen and I just have to restart a few times to fix it.
  • Xbox - Worked fine
  • Gamecube - Worked fine and I even dropped it a few times.
  • Xbox 360 #1 - Dead out of the box, returned it and got it good and going within 30 minutes of unboxing the first one.
  • Xbox 360 #2 - Worked fine for 2-3 years but it was louder than a jet engine.  Eventually traded it and got one with an HDMI port.
  • Xbox 360 #3 - Still works fine and quiet as a mouse
  • Xbox 360 S (bonus from work) - Works fine
  • PS3 #1 (80GB BC model) - Still works, though it often loses connectivity with Blue Tooth devices and it's a pain to get them to connect again.   Also, it's louder than my loud 360 ever was.
  • PS3 #2 (40GB - bonus from work) - Never unboxed it, returned it for store credit
  • PS3 Slim - Works fine
  • Wii #1 - Works fine, though I haven't touched it in probably a year.  I think The Wife uses it occassionaly.
  • Wii #2 (won was a prize) - It worked but I sold it.  It was a pain in the ass though because it was used and had a password set on it and in order to sell it I had to reset that password which required jumping through a lot of hoops.

So all in all I've had good luck.  I haven't had any consoles actually die on me other than the one 360 that was dead out of the box (DVD drive error) but everything else has been fine.



I know you say "since sega saturn, and ignore xbox rrod," but since only a few replies have been posted so far I figured I'd just roll through my personal buying/owning experiences for the hell of it. Hope you do not mind!

PSx/One: rolled through at least 5 of these due to a combination of the consoles sitting on the floor swimming in dirt and pet dander (severe nastiness... like, you could not tell what color the carpet was). My only excuse was that I was very young at the time :)

Sega Saturn: broke one 3 days after purchasing it; Virtua Figher pissed me off. Toys r Us gave me an exchange, sold the console shortly after beating Panzer Dragoon.

N64: None, still have it.

NES: None, still have it (despite being hit entirely too many times out of anger).

Snes: None, still have it.

Sega Master System: None, still have it.

Sega Genesis/CD: None, still have it.

Turbo Grafix 16: None, still have it.

Dreamcast: Bought it just before Xbox came out. My only problem was the inability to find enough good games in stores and the fact that I bought an Xbox on launch. Still have it.

Xbox: Broke the first one after roughly 4000 hours of gaming/dvd watching. Still have the 2nd.

Xbox 360: On console #4. 1 RRoD, 1 E74, 1 upgrade for HDMI port, 1 upgrade to S model. The RRoD console happened 3 hrs after purchase, so replacement was free. E74 happened to that replacement roughly 6 months later, replacement was free. Sold that console when I upgraded to one with an HDMI port; same with when I upgraded to S model.



I have only used two consoles and they are:

Xbox 360 (2007 - 2007) : Worked fine for 2 hours. Had a problem with the DVD reader.

Xbox 360 (2007 - 2008) : Worked fine for 1 1/2 years. Died due to RROD while I was playing one of the sleeper game of the generation The Darkness :( I still had the warranty though.

Xbox 360 (2008 - 2010) : This one worked the best of the three. However it failed as well due to DVD error again. Since I had no warranty left, I couldn't send it in. So, I can only play games if I am lucky enough for the system to recognise the disc.

PS3 (2008 - Present) : Works like a charm. The only complaint is that the surface gets a little bit of scratches. 



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Since the Saturn havent had problems pretty much but whole history

NES - bought it for 5 dollars knowing there were problems reading the cartridges, went on and off in terms of reading them.

Sega Mega Drive - No problems for most of it until someone stepped on the power plug and then you had to put heavy things on it to make it work... I still want a new one for this reason :(

PS1 1st one - worked perfectly fine but sold it for a N64

ps1 2nd one - had problems with the av cable, had to unplug it and then plug it back in again. The problem was it went all greeny and odd. Had slight disk reading issues.

N64 - no problems

Ps2 - no problems

Game Cube - No problems

360 - after plugging in and out hdmi cable it broke. Component works fine though still playing HD. :)

PS3 - freezes a fair bit when playing co-op.

Wii - no problems



 

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PS1 None.

PS2 None.

I'm not gonna jinx this gen by saying anything right now.



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mantlepiecek said:

Xbox 360 (2008 - 2010) : This one worked the best of the three. However it failed as well due to DVD error again. Since I had no warranty left, I couldn't send it in. So, I can only play games if I am lucky enough for the system to recognise the disc.


Unless you bought it used and it's older, you voided the warranty yourself, or you bought it Januart 2008 that should still be in warranty.



twesterm said:
mantlepiecek said:

Xbox 360 (2008 - 2010) : This one worked the best of the three. However it failed as well due to DVD error again. Since I had no warranty left, I couldn't send it in. So, I can only play games if I am lucky enough for the system to recognise the disc.


Unless you bought it used and it's older, you voided the warranty yourself, or you bought it Januart 2008 that should still be in warranty.


It was a replacement 360 I got for the earlier xbox 360. I haven't bought more than a single 360.

But even if it was bought new, it wouldn't have a warranty because DVD problems are covered for only 1 year.



I'm on my 4th PS2, the first just stopped working and on the other two the laser broke