Consoles and Durability: Ever Have Any Console Break On You?

[DonFerrari]

Eddie_Raja said:

ps_wiro said:

Eddie_Raja said:

Hey brotha' every PC gamer has had something break before.  That's what makes me laugh so much at people who started complaining when PS3's broke 5 years after they got it - as if that makes it comparible to the 360!  A console breaking in under a year is one thing, but 5 years is frankly completely standard.

I mean what PC has had Zero GPU, Motherboard, HDD, RAM, and PSU problems for 5 years straight?!?!?!   i mean it happens, but not at cheap console prices!

Exactly, as if consoles was the only thing that ever broke... Sometimes it's just bad luck when it breaks within a year or two. My kettle broke last week it wasn't even a year old.  

The only thing I will say in the "complainers'" defense is that if your PC's GPU breaks you can just buy a new one and the rest of your PC is fine (Sometimes its nice to have an excuse to upgrade too ;) ).  However if ANYTHING in a console breaks you are kinda screwed, and so it isn't unreasonable to expect a console to last till the next gen.

The problem last gen was that it was WAY too long and so many people were forced to double-dip.

You probably can repair a console for cheaper than buying a strong GPU on your PC =]

Deeeeznuuuts said:
Only console to ever break on me was my original 60gb PlayStation 3, first thing that happened was one of my discs getting stuck inside it and havimg to send it back to Sony, got it back and it was working fine, few weeks later, a yellow light appeared, that was the end :( looked online for a fix, none were permanent and then rung Sony up, they suggested I get a discounted slim PlayStation from them as the fix for the issue is only temporary, devastated isn't even the word!! Still got it though, not getting rid of that beast XD

Well at least it have a happy ending, right?