prayformojo said:
JazzB1987 said:
Ka-pi96 said:
1. As far as I remember the PS1 lasted pretty well. Original Xbox, PSP and Vita all seem to as well. No real problems with Xbox One or PS4 (other than the controller) yet either. So that point doesn't really work. It isn't guaranteed that theirs will and their competitors won't.
2. They also keep resisting innovation and are stuck in some old fashioned practices, which is also one of the reasons people want them to go 3rd party ironically enough.
3. The fact that they are forcing you to buy their own hardware in order to play their software kind of goes against this point...
4. Sony and Microsoft have only not had backwards compatibility once... I expect it will have been the last time they've not had it as well...
5. Impossible to prove, partly because we wouldn't know unless they actually tried and also partly because it would be purely subjective.
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The PSone was my first console that broke. I was only able to play games when it was upside down. PS2 fat laser died (slim works like a charm!) PS3 fat Ylod (slim works great) 360fat had RROD I fixed it and sold it (slim works without problems). Never had the first xbox so I cant comment on that thing. Dreamcast still works (like every sega console I ever owned)
I have never had a single Nintendo console that broke. And I had them all.
The only thing that is "broken" at least partially is my DSlite hinge because I dropped it several times since I bought it like 8 years ago. And one day last year I saw a cack but its still a little crack so the DSLite still works.
(well and I killed a few NES and SNES power supplies because I was a dumb kid and ignored "dont pull the calbe! pull the plug!" etc so I caused lead fracture on 2 power supplies. Moved the cables around until it worked used some tape and voila works again. Looks like shit with all the tape tho)
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Remember the NES? The original model had a HUGE defect where the thing would just blink on and off again due to pin connectors wearing out. I think people tend to overlook this because it happened before the internet but it affects nearly every single NES ever made (original model).
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This happened because people were blowing on their cartridges. The moisture would make the pins in the NES rust
We had 3 NES in our family. The 2 consoles that were not fed with games that were blown on show no sign of that even today. My neighbours also did not.
The one that was tho already suffered from this problem after just few years.
I am not sure if mishandling counts as defect.
