How have your video game systems broken?

[Michael-5]

JazzB1987 said:

Michael-5 said:

JazzB1987 said:

My PS1 didnt want to play games anymore I had to turn it upside down for it to keep working. (dunno what that was lol)

A few people mentioned this....I dunno what it is. When mine broke, and I put it upsidedown, all the ball bearing fell out.

My PS2 phat couldnt read disks anymore.

The repair guy told me that all first gen PS2's had poorly alligned disk lasers, and most would break within 2-3 years.

I would like to know how many PS2s sold to date are phats.

I mean its somewhat unfair to say  PS2 is sales king when lets say 50 million died because of a bad laser and then 40* million  former phat owners were "forced" to buy a slim because they had so many games they didnt want to throw into the trash can.

Thank god I got my PS2slim for free with a double phone contract   :)

*(yep 40 not 50 million on purpose because 20% might have said FU Sony without buying a new console)

Michael-5 said:

 

Another guy dropped his gameboy colour in the backyard, and lost it for a week. They had the sprinkler on every day, and only found it when the lawn mower chewed it up. Just like your DS, it became extremely uncomfortable to hold, but the screen was all diced up, and there were sharp edges everywhere, and water stuck internally. Still worked.

 I lost a gameboy game and half a year later found it in the garden (we had a ton of snow that year) and after I dried it for a day I tested it and it worked perfectly fine.  Cartridge FTW!!!

Well Sony sold 100 million PS2's by November 2005, and the PS2 Slim came out in October 2004. So it's safe to say that at least half of the PS2's sold were phat.

Also PS2 might not be sales King since PS2 was disconintued, and DS is still selling. VGC stopped tracking PS2 at what 154 million? I have another thread where I analyse console sales and I believe I pegged PS2 final sales at 156.72 million. I did that by following the trend PS2 was setting YoY, and adding 60% of it's prior year sales to its current sales for the year VGC didn't track it. I also layered those results with PS2 shipment figures. Either way PS2 finished at about 157 million, and the DS is at 154.34 million, and it sold 3.4 million last year. Currrently it's tracking 40% as well in 2013 as it did in 2012, so if it keeps this up it will sell 1.4 million units which would put it at 155.65 million units or so. PS2 will only be 1 million higher, DS could trickle past PS2 numbers.

Also regardless, DS is more reliable then PS2, so if your critisizing PS2 being the hardware king, but questioning how many were replacement copies, I bet there are already more unique DS owners then PS2.