noname2200 on 08 March 2011
| foxtail said: I think on home consoles Nintendo has significantly decreased it's failure rate each new generation.(Reliability on Wii>Gamecube>SNES>NES) NES was pretty infamous in its day for the tricks you had to learn to get it to work. |
I disagree. The Wii seems to be less reliable than most of its predecessors, which is not surprising considering how much more they crammed into it.
As an aside, NES hardware was actually extremely solid: the tricks people refer to (such as blowing in them(!)) are generally useless, and often even detrimental. The reason so many games locked up was because the lockout chip in the game cartridge failed to make complete contact with its counterpart in the system, a problem which almost always was on the cartridge end.
