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S.T.A.G.E. on 02 March 2010
Tanstalas said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Sorry buddy, but the only console made with true quality parts is Nintendo. The longevity is amazing. I am saying this without being a Nintendo fan.

Obviously you never had a NES :P  And if you did obviously blowing into all those cartridges burnt your memory brain cells :P

I still have my NES and I i've only had to blow into the cartridge because it had dust. You have no point here. Stop trying to seem cool.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 02 March 2010
Icyedge said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
joeorc said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Sorry buddy, but the only console made with true quality parts is Nintendo. The longevity is amazing. I am saying this without being a Nintendo fan.

all three are made with quality part's it's just that quality control may not be as good as in other places and that may have to do with which company produces the part's and where and their track record is in production, though I have my self had good luck with every Nintendo system and Playstation system i have ever owned, though not so much as with Microsoft , not because it's bad or anything, my first xbox was stolen.

The original Xboxes are of higher quality parts than the PS1 and PS2. The 360 was sabotaged, but now has a lower failure rate. Nintendo is untouchable in quality.....you could drop that thing offf of a roof. The PS3 was launched as a $600 system with "high quality" parts. That makes Sony look bad. Microsoft has already paid their dues for screwing up, so its about time Sony started answering to why the 40, 80 and 60GB systems are getting the YLOD.

For what we know, the PS3 failure rate is very very low. Also, each time I asked people if their YLOD PS3 was having 6 inches of airflow around it always resulted in a negative answer. Theres thousand and thousands of play time on my 60GB first generation PS3 (movies/musics/videos/games/folding at home), it is still working very smooth at an average of 5 hours per day (I use it for all entertainment in the living room). Its by far the console I used the most even if its only been 3 years and a half. The other day I was messing with my projector connection, and the PS3 dropped from his shelve. Guess what, after a drop from almost 2 meters, it is still in perfect working condition. Actually it was worst for the floor than the PS3. Theres a big dent on the wooden floor now lol.

Thats great. All I've been saying is that the 60, 80 and 40 GB PS3's have out of the blue been breaking down. I see it online, my friends tell me, and I go to Play N Trade where they fix them.



Tanstalas on 02 March 2010
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Tanstalas said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Sorry buddy, but the only console made with true quality parts is Nintendo. The longevity is amazing. I am saying this without being a Nintendo fan.

Obviously you never had a NES :P  And if you did obviously blowing into all those cartridges burnt your memory brain cells :P

I still have my NES and I i've only had to blow into the cartridge because it had dust. You have no point here. Stop trying to seem cool.

Yes, the dust was the reason for it...  

However, it WAS a design flaw with the system.  Remember the "official NES Cleaning Kit"?  

It was made to address flaws in the NES design that caused cartridge connectors to be particularly susceptible to interference from dirt and dust.

 

Also, from Wikipedia (another design flaw): They did fix the problems with the top loading NES

 

When Nintendo released the NES in the United States, the design styling was deliberately different from that of other game consoles. Nintendo wanted to distinguish its product from those of competitors and to avoid the generally poor reputation that game consoles had acquired following the video game crash of 1983. One result of this philosophy was a front-loading zero insertion force (ZIF) cartridge socket designed to resemble the front-loading mechanism of a VCR. The ZIF connector worked quite well when both the connector and the cartridges were clean and the pins on the connector were new. Unfortunately, the ZIF connector was not truly zero insertion force. When a user inserted the cartridge into the NES, the force of pressing the cartridge down and into place bent the contact pins slightly, as well as pressing the cartridge’s ROM board back into the cartridge itself. Repeated insertion and removal of cartridges caused the pins to wear out relatively quickly and the ZIF design proved far more prone to interference by dirt and dust than an industry-standard card edge connector.[28] Exacerbating the problem was Nintendo’s choice of materials; the slot connector that the cartridge was actually inserted into was highly prone to corrosion.[29] Add-on peripherals like the popular Game Genie cheat cartridge tended to further exacerbate this problem by bending the front-loading mechanism during gameplay.[30] Recently,third-party manufacturers have been producing gold clones of the NES connector piece to replace the existing one and prevent corrosion.

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In response to these hardware flaws, "Nintendo Authorized Repair Centers" sprang up across the United States. According to Nintendo, the authorization program was designed to ensure that the machines were properly repaired. Nintendo would ship the necessary replacement parts only to shops that had enrolled in the authorization program. In practice, the authorization process consisted of nothing more than paying a fee to Nintendo for the privilege. In a recent trend, many sites have sprung up to offer Nintendo repair parts, guides and services, that replace those formerly offered by the authorized repair centers.



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kjj4t9rdad on 03 March 2010
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Tanstalas said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Sorry buddy, but the only console made with true quality parts is Nintendo. The longevity is amazing. I am saying this without being a Nintendo fan.

Obviously you never had a NES :P  And if you did obviously blowing into all those cartridges burnt your memory brain cells :P

I still have my NES and I i've only had to blow into the cartridge because it had dust. You have no point here. Stop trying to seem cool.

You must be the only one in the world.  I personally don't know anyone who didn't have to blow into every single game (no matter how clean they were kept) in order to get them to work.  Nintendos break, I have an Nes and a Super NES (both dead) to prove it.  Nintendo just doesn't get the fan boy backlash that Sony and M$ have had.  With the exception of the 360, I would like to see any factual evidence that Nintendo is any more reliable than Sony or M$. 



Icyedge on 03 March 2010
kjj4t9rdad said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Tanstalas said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Sorry buddy, but the only console made with true quality parts is Nintendo. The longevity is amazing. I am saying this without being a Nintendo fan.

Obviously you never had a NES :P  And if you did obviously blowing into all those cartridges burnt your memory brain cells :P

I still have my NES and I i've only had to blow into the cartridge because it had dust. You have no point here. Stop trying to seem cool.

You must be the only one in the world.  I personally don't know anyone who didn't have to blow into every single game (no matter how clean they were kept) in order to get them to work.  Nintendos break, I have an Nes and a Super NES (both dead) to prove it.  Nintendo just doesn't get the fan boy backlash that Sony and M$ have had.  With the exception of the 360, I would like to see any factual evidence that Nintendo is any more reliable than Sony or M$. 

Im going to back the others on this, I dont remember one single game that you didnt have to blow after a while. I even remember entering the game 4-5 times before it work. Sure my Nintendo wasnt new, my parents purchase it when I was 4, and I played it until around 10-11 years old. But still, they all did that after a while, so its definitly a problem in manufacturing those.