XBox360 failure rate came up in another discussion today, which I personally felt the effects of as well others. Which led me to think about the durability of other consoles. So, I thought it would be interesting to find out what was the first console to cease functioning for you? I myself have been gaming since the early 80's. The first console my parents bought was a Coleco Vision (plus the Expansion module which played Atari 2600 games). I also gamed on my grandparent's Intellivision when visting them. (I had to rebuy these off eBay, since the originals were never actually mine. So the NES is the one I have personally owned the longest on my list. But the Intellivision and Coleco Vision were still manufactured in that era).
The first console to ever fail on me was the original Sony PlayStation. I bought it from ToysRUs with money saved from my first job for Christmas 1997 to game with my younger brother on. It stopped reading disks within the first two days out of the box. (XBox 360 fared longer, but suffered RROD in 2008 after about 3 years of gameplay. When I started to put more time on my original XBox while in between 360's, it ironically also died in 2008 due to the power button ceasing to function. At least it lasted its entire generation.) Here's my console history:
Own (and still functioning):
Intellivision 1980 - (34+ years?)
Coleco Vision 1982 - (32+ years?)
NES 1989 - (25+ years)
Gameboy 1990 - (24+ years)
SNES 1991 - (23+ years)
Genesis + Sega CD 1995 - (19+ years)
N64 1996 - (18+ years)
PlayStation (#2) 1997 - (17+ years)
Sega Saturn 1998 - (16+ years)
PS2 2000 - (14+ years)
Gamecube 2001 - (13+ years)
Gameboy Advance 2002 - (12+ years)
Nintendo DS 2005 - (10+ years)
Wii 2007 - (7+ years)
XBoxSlim 2010 - (4+ years)
Nintendo 3DS 2011 - (3+ years)
WiiU 2012 - (2+ years)
XBoxOne 2014 - (0 years, 4+ months)
Owned (ceased functioning):
PlayStation 1997 - 1997 (lifespan - 2 days)
XBox 360 2005 - 2008 (lifespan - 3 years)
Original XBox 2002 - 2008 (lifespan - 6 years)
Everyone's experience, care, and luck with hardware is different, so please share yours!
