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

[Eddie_Raja]

DonFerrari said:

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 =]

Er not really.  I mean it costs $150 usually to send a Console for repair.   If your GPU is 3 years old, a $150 GPU could likely be stronger than what yoy had depending on what you had.   Also keep in mind it costs nothing but sometimes shipping ($10) to send in a GPU, and most come with 2-3 year warranties.