I've never broke any of my systems. They all work.

My 360 suffered from the RROD, but I blame the stupid Nyko Intercooler because a week after I purchased and attached the product my 360 red ringed.

Never had much of an issue with broken consoles, since I own mostly Nintendo ones :P

The few that have broken:

Xbox 360 (surprise surprise...) - actually wasn't the traditional "red ring of death." The console itself still worked, as it would play digital content, but the disk drive specifically just decided to stop working. Thankfully this happened right as MS came to their senses and decided to fix their defective consoles for free, as it should have been from the beginning.

Dreamcast - Played on and off for awhlie, then just flat out stopped working. Recently bought a new one for like 25 bucks, couldn't resist.

NES - broke down way back, like 15 years ago, so I don't remember much of the details. We went to have it repaired, and haven't had an issue since, still works great.

Yeah quite possible  but my  reasoning was more like  how many people bought a system because they wanted to  instead of being "forced" to because their old one died.  So in this example I think DS is the winner.

I mean if people are happy with their system its their right to buy it twice  and that doesnt "manipulate" the sales or something. Whereas buying a system multiple times because the old ones keep  breaking somewhat does.

The best way would be if every company would be forced to reveal failure rates. So for every console that died you lose 1 "sale"(manufacturing faults only e.g.  crappy laser, cheap solder etc.)  would be interesting to see where the PS2 and 360 would be now.  But doing this would need some seperate sales chart we cant just remove normal sales  lol

Of the consoles I've owned that failed I had a mega drive with a broken PSU. A Saturn with a failing laser. A PS2 with a failed laser. A 360 with RROD (replaced under ms warranty, still working). I also had a Spectrum 48k fail on me in the good old days.

My PS1 was part of a defective shipment that crapped out after a few years. The same happened to my first PS2. My PS3, meanwhile, stopped reading disks, so I ended up replacing it with a Slim that has worked well since.

I've had pretty shitty luck with Sony's consoles. On top of those issues, I ended up losing my fat PSP and several games a few years back, and the slim I've got now is iffy about reading UMDs. I can't wait to see how my PS Vita breaks down. :p

My friend had a PS3 have that same problem, I was able to fix it by holding down the power button while powering it up for about 10 seconds and it will give you another beep, it sets the display back to defaults and you should be able to make it work, or try another hdmi cable?

I've had 2600, NES, SNES, GB, PS2 Fat, two DS Lite, two GC, PSP-2000, Wii, Wii U.

Of these, only the Gameboy broke (screen popped off and there must be a cable problem since the display has half the lines missing. The shoulder buttons on my Zelda DS Lite are essentially dead (it gets harder to resuscitate them each time). The PSP was bought used, and has a loose battery which disconnects on sudden movements, but a simple paper shim makes it very reliable (it only loses power if I drop it).

Let's go down the list of every console I ever owned:

• Nes: I decided to open it up and see what was inside of it.  Gutted it like a fish.  Was I insane?
• Gameboy:  Never broke.  Sold it.
• Super Nes:  Still works to this very day and is played almost daily by my mom
• Gameboy #2:  Still works.  Somewhere in my moms house.  It's a clear one that I bought in 1995.  Has dried up Coca Cola in it.
• Nintendo 64:  Never broke.  Sold it.
• Playstation 1:  Spindle thingy broke off for no goddam reason.
• Playstation 1 #2:  Never broke.  Traded it for a PS2 (store credit)
• Nintendo 64 #2:  Atomic green Donkey Kong bundle.  Never broke.  Still works.
• Dreamcast:  Still works.  Is at my mom's.  Still works.
• Playstation 2:  Disc read error.  Never recovered.
• Playstation 2 #2:  Disc read error.  I opened it and fixed it.  It broke again.  I opened it to fix it and forgot I had unscrewed everything.  Went to pick it up after work and all of the guts fell out.
• Gamecube:  Never broke.  Sold it when I got a Wii
• Playstation 2 #3:  Still works.
• Gameboy Advance:  Still works.  No idea where it went.
• Nintendo DS Phat: Broken hinge.  Still works.
• Nintendo DS Phat #2: Broken hinge.  Still works
• Nintendo DS Phat #3: Broken hinge.  Still works
• Nintendo DS Lite (white): Magically disappeared
• Nintendo DS Lite (Pink) : Still works
• Nintendo DSi (Blue):  Still works
• Sony PSP: Still works
• Sony PSP (pink): Still works
• Sega Genesis: Still works.  Is at my mom's, totally unloved
• Nintendo Wii:  Still works.  It's a Netflix box, now.
• Sony PS3:  Still works
• Xbox 360 20GB:  RRoD
• Xbox 360 60GB:  Jasper model.  Still works.  Is in the living room.  Did suffer a disc read error but M$ fixed it for free
• Xbox 360 250GB:  Still works.  Is in the gaming room.
• Nintendo 3DS:  Still works.
• Nintendo 3DS #2:  Still works
• Playstation Vita:  Still works
• Nintendo Wii U:  Still works

I think that's all of 'em.

Zero, or one. If you count a gameboy that was dropped in water, later dropped on concrete, sound broke, but otherwise runs fine.