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Which of your consoles died first?

Atari 2600 3 1.33%
 
NES 14 6.19%
 
Genesis 3 1.33%
 
SNES 3 1.33%
 
PlayStation 30 13.27%
 
XBox 7 3.10%
 
PS2 29 12.83%
 
Wii 11 4.87%
 
XBox 360 92 40.71%
 
other 34 15.04%
 
Total:226

XBox360 failure rate came up in another discussion today, which I personally felt the effects of as well others.  Which led me to think about the durability of other consoles.  So, I thought it would be interesting to find out what was the first console to cease functioning for you?  I myself have been gaming since the early 80's.  The first console my parents bought was a Coleco Vision (plus the Expansion module which played Atari 2600 games).  I also gamed on my grandparent's Intellivision when visting them.  (I had to rebuy these off eBay, since the originals were never actually mine.  So the NES is the one I have personally owned the longest on my list.  But the Intellivision and Coleco Vision were still manufactured in that era). 
The first console to ever fail on me was the original Sony PlayStation.  I bought it from ToysRUs with money saved from my first job for Christmas 1997 to game with my younger brother on.  It stopped reading disks within the first two days out of the box.  (XBox 360 fared longer, but suffered RROD in 2008 after about 3 years of gameplay.  When I started to put more time on my original XBox while in between 360's, it ironically also died in 2008 due to the power button ceasing to function.  At least it lasted its entire generation.)  Here's my console history:

Own (and still functioning):
Intellivision              1980 -   (34+ years?)
Coleco Vision           1982 -   (32+ years?)
NES                            1989 -   (25+ years)
Gameboy                  1990 -   (24+ years)
SNES                          1991 -   (23+ years)
Genesis + Sega CD  1995 -    (19+ years)
N64                            1996 -   (18+ years)
PlayStation (#2)       1997 -   (17+ years)
Sega Saturn              1998 -   (16+ years)
PS2                             2000 -   (14+ years)
Gamecube                2001 -   (13+ years)
Gameboy Advance 2002 -    (12+ years)
Nintendo DS            2005 -    (10+ years)
Wii                             2007 -      (7+ years)
XBoxSlim                  2010 -       (4+ years)
Nintendo 3DS          2011 -       (3+ years)
WiiU                          2012 -       (2+ years)
XBoxOne                   2014 -       (0 years, 4+ months)

Owned (ceased functioning):
PlayStation               1997 - 1997   (lifespan - 2 days)
XBox 360                  2005 - 2008   (lifespan - 3 years)
Original XBox           2002 - 2008   (lifespan - 6 years)   

Everyone's experience, care, and luck with hardware is different, so please share yours!    



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only my xbox broke, and i could fix it. sure other consoles make problems from time to time and my snes has a completly new body, but they work. i sold my xbox360 early enough to not get rrod



My PS2 broke first, then like 4 of my 360s and that's it.  My N64 is kinda glitchy, you have to turn it off and on a few times to work but it still works.

Edit: Oh and my Wii U broke but I got it exchanged the same day so I forgot about it.

Edit2: Forgot I had to replace my PS3 too...



The only console of mine (not really a console) that broke has been a gameboy micro



All of mine are still functioning. Only hardware issue I have currently is the dying battery life in my GBA SP, but that's a pretty easy fix.



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Wii. Only console who died on me, and it was within the first year.



Fortunately, I've yet to own a console that has broken down on me.



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

All my consoles still function/work so it's nice.

Only my DS RL and hinge broke, but that's because I played it a LOT. It still works though



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My original Xbox broke, then my 360 broke 2 times.



Nothing died!