Playstation "Seal of Quality"

[Tanstalas]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Tanstalas said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:
Sorry buddy, but the only console made with true quality parts is Nintendo. The longevity is amazing. I am saying this without being a Nintendo fan.

Obviously you never had a NES :P  And if you did obviously blowing into all those cartridges burnt your memory brain cells :P

I still have my NES and I i've only had to blow into the cartridge because it had dust. You have no point here. Stop trying to seem cool.

Yes, the dust was the reason for it...  

However, it WAS a design flaw with the system.  Remember the "official NES Cleaning Kit"?  

It was made to address flaws in the NES design that caused cartridge connectors to be particularly susceptible to interference from dirt and dust.

 

Also, from Wikipedia (another design flaw): They did fix the problems with the top loading NES

 

When Nintendo released the NES in the United States, the design styling was deliberately different from that of other game consoles. Nintendo wanted to distinguish its product from those of competitors and to avoid the generally poor reputation that game consoles had acquired following the video game crash of 1983. One result of this philosophy was a front-loading zero insertion force (ZIF) cartridge socket designed to resemble the front-loading mechanism of a VCR. The ZIF connector worked quite well when both the connector and the cartridges were clean and the pins on the connector were new. Unfortunately, the ZIF connector was not truly zero insertion force. When a user inserted the cartridge into the NES, the force of pressing the cartridge down and into place bent the contact pins slightly, as well as pressing the cartridge’s ROM board back into the cartridge itself. Repeated insertion and removal of cartridges caused the pins to wear out relatively quickly and the ZIF design proved far more prone to interference by dirt and dust than an industry-standard card edge connector.^[28] Exacerbating the problem was Nintendo’s choice of materials; the slot connector that the cartridge was actually inserted into was highly prone to corrosion.^[29] Add-on peripherals like the popular Game Genie cheat cartridge tended to further exacerbate this problem by bending the front-loading mechanism during gameplay.^[30] Recently,third-party manufacturers have been producing gold clones of the NES connector piece to replace the existing one and prevent corrosion.

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In response to these hardware flaws, "Nintendo Authorized Repair Centers" sprang up across the United States. According to Nintendo, the authorization program was designed to ensure that the machines were properly repaired. Nintendo would ship the necessary replacement parts only to shops that had enrolled in the authorization program. In practice, the authorization process consisted of nothing more than paying a fee to Nintendo for the privilege. In a recent trend, many sites have sprung up to offer Nintendo repair parts, guides and services, that replace those formerly offered by the authorized repair centers.