A question for those planning to get a launch XB1 and, to a lesser extent, PS4.

[novasonic]

landguy1 said:

novasonic said:

landguy1 said:
Went through many Atari 2600's because of the cartridge slot went to shit. Same thing with the N64 and the NES. Had the PS2 fail twice from the cd player failing. Still have my XBOX. Still on my launch PS3. Onto my second 360.

I hope you tried cleaning them first. 99% of cardridge consoles not working is just the game pins and/or console contacts getting dirty over time.

No, no one ever heard of that back then?  Your'e kidding right?  That's what you had to do thousands of times.  That was always the problem with cartridge systems.  The problem was that after you took it out a couple hundred times, you broke the cartridge slot somehow.  Sure if your 15+ years old, you probably treat that stuff the right way.  But we had a bunch of kids in our house, and those consoles got used. 

You actually could buy cleaning kits for the consoles back then. They were often liscenced products from the console manufacturer too. I've been lucky enough to come a cross a few. I can only speak from my own experience but I run a small retro games store through Amazon is my free time. I've cleaned and sold upwards of 1000 consoles and games. Almost everything doesn't work properly when I get it, but, out of the cartridge based consoles, I've only had 3 games and 0 consoles that couldn't be fixed with a good cleaning. It's amazing what a can of compressed air and some rubbing alcohol will do for those old things.