| lasershow said: Most companies have been reliable and Nintendo has prided themeselves on making durable products. |
That's great and all, but Nintendo's legacy thus far for old time gamers has been the "blow on cartidge connector" trick, which itself resulted from a poorly designed PCB connector interface, and DS/DSi/DSl/3DS hinges would snap left and right, even under normal use - hell, mine has a crack in the shoulder where the hinge barrel is housed just from extremely light use - then theres the upper screen ribbon connector dying, F1 and F2 fuses on all models of DS popping and killing systems for just about any reason you can imagine, touchscreen failures, N64 controller analog sticks grinding themselves to a pile of dust with light use, gamecubes and wiis failing to read disks, wavebird wireless modules dying, gamecarts killing savegames because of internal batteries dying, because the price of a battery was a little less than storing the save on persistent memory instead?
no manufacturer is immune to product failures, Nintendo just used to get away with it more because their consoles *used to be* much simpler designs than the competition, that isn't the case anymore.
PS4 not reading disks, hdmi output failing, ejection sled failing, laser diode failing, same for xbox one, same for wiiu, all common problems because they are all wear parts that have the potential to fail at any point, design issues like a lot of usb drives not fitting in Ps4 because of the overhang around the ports, xbox one controller battery doors not fitting nicely and rattling, original ps4 rocking if light pressure was applied to one side, it's all design failures, and can and should be pointed out.
Potential problems and design failures need to be brought to light so they can be fixed, sweeping them under the rug gives the manufacturer the freedom to continue to keep releasing products with sub par design, and as much as people may feel affection for a particular console, they should also like them enough to identify, discuss and address the faults those systems have, and where applicable, seek for a partricular issue to be rectified.
