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think-man on 31 August 2013

Its so cheap if it breaks ill buy another one, 2 ps4's equal the price I payed for my launch ps3



 

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landguy1 on 31 August 2013

Went through many Atari 2600's because of the cartridge slot went to shit. Same thing with the N64 and the NES. Had the PS2 fail twice from the cd player failing. Still have my XBOX. Still on my launch PS3. Onto my second 360.



carlos710 on 31 August 2013

What worries me is how expensive they are for the limited set of new features that they bring to the table and poor launch line-ups. Personally I prefer the XOne launch lineup so far but its astronomical price won't allow me to get one at launch.

But to answer your question I trust Sony hardware... Microsoft's not so much.



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brendude13 on 31 August 2013

I've only ever had one console fail on me, a PS2 fat, so I'm not worried at all.



J_Allard on 31 August 2013

I never had a single console break until the 5th generation consoles. NES/SNES//SMS/Genesis were all incredible for me.



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novasonic on 01 September 2013
pokoko said:
novasonic said:
pokoko said:
You're taking a chance, regardless. I think I remember hearing about a few Wii U turning into bricks at launch. You really never know. I have ALL my original consoles, going back to my Atari 2600, and the only ones I've had trouble with are the NES and SNES. My original PS2 is still hooked to the television in the den.

However, I have never bought a console at launch. The Vita was the nearest at less than a year old. I normally wait until the first price cut and/or redesign.

Actually, the whole deal with the Wii U needing a huge patch has just about convinced me to wait on getting a PS4. That, and the fact that there are tons of PS3 games on my wish list.

Damn, what did you do to break a NES and SNES? I've never in my life seen a NES or SNES that suffered from a hardware failure, and I've seen me a lot of them.

What do you mean?  The design of the NES was kind of bad and allowed for damage to the 72-pin connectors over time, or they'd get dirty and not work.  The big problem there is that the lockout chip would turn the system off and on, over and over.  So annoying.  I remember that it would sometimes take several careful attempts to get a cart working.  I would get so mad.

Honestly, I didn't know anyone who didn't ultimately have a problem getting thier NES to play games.  I hear people now say that they never had a problem with theirs but, as far as I can remember, blowing into your cart was a running joke back then.  Kids had all KINDS of made up ways to get your NES working right.  I also remember carts getting stuck in the down position a few times and I had to pry them up.

Any cardtridge based system suffered from this. It's not the hardware failing, its the pins getting dirty. The NES is a bit more complicated I'll admit, but its internal problems can easily be fixed with a small flat head screw driver.




8th gen predictions. (made early 2014)
PS4: 60-65m
WiiU: 30-35m
X1: 30-35m
3DS: 80-85m
PSV: 15-20m

novasonic on 01 September 2013
landguy1 said:
Went through many Atari 2600's because of the cartridge slot went to shit. Same thing with the N64 and the NES. Had the PS2 fail twice from the cd player failing. Still have my XBOX. Still on my launch PS3. Onto my second 360.


I hope you tried cleaning them first. 99% of cardridge consoles not working is just the game pins and/or console contacts getting dirty over time.




8th gen predictions. (made early 2014)
PS4: 60-65m
WiiU: 30-35m
X1: 30-35m
3DS: 80-85m
PSV: 15-20m

Puppyroach on 01 September 2013

I have never had any problem with any console (and I bought a launch 360 aswell). The only thing I had was with Dreamcast, ehre it would suddenly reboot in the middle of a game. After som internet searching and with the use of some napkins, I solved it :).



DarthVolod on 01 September 2013

Well there is always the warranty. Worst case scenario though I can just attempt to get it running long enough to trade it in somewhere and get a new one paying the difference ... or trade it towards the slim version or whatever.

A RROD 360 can be fixed (with some minor work) to appear functional ... at least long enough for trading purposes...

If it is truly having issues you can still sell a broken system. Gamestop gives about $50 (in store credit and using a coupon that comes up every now and then) for broken original model 360's. That is something at least.

In all honesty though, I don't really expect problems this generation. At least nothing as widespread as red ring and yellow light.



landguy1 on 01 September 2013
novasonic said:
landguy1 said:
Went through many Atari 2600's because of the cartridge slot went to shit. Same thing with the N64 and the NES. Had the PS2 fail twice from the cd player failing. Still have my XBOX. Still on my launch PS3. Onto my second 360.


I hope you tried cleaning them first. 99% of cardridge consoles not working is just the game pins and/or console contacts getting dirty over time.


No, no one ever heard of that back then?  Your'e kidding right?  That's what you had to do thousands of times.  That was always the problem with cartridge systems.  The problem was that after you took it out a couple hundred times, you broke the cartridge slot somehow.  Sure if your 15+ years old, you probably treat that stuff the right way.  But we had a bunch of kids in our house, and those consoles got used.