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

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sergiodaly on 11 January 2016

my consoles are just PS2 fat PS3 60gb FAT ps3 super slim PS4 and a Vita. only my PS3 fat broke but it was my most used console ever. all others don't have as many hours on them together as my PS3 fat alone.

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outlawauron on 11 January 2016

SNES: Purchased really late (like 2003) and never used enough to break. Only got it for Earthbound
N64: One broke, but from physical damage
PS2: Two broke, both from physical damage
Gamecube: Ok
Xbox: Ok
360: Two broke, one from RROD. Other from the EE41(?) error.
PS3: Ok (both launch and super slim)
PS4: Ok
Wii U: Ok

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PenguinZ on 11 January 2016

1x 360 and PS3.

I fixed the 360 though and it still works to this day...

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Cloudman on 11 January 2016

d21lewis said:

Cloudman said:

I like to think I took care of all my consoles, and yet I still had 2 PS2s break on me. The 3rd is acting up as well...

If you keep your consoles clean, don't run them for like 10 hours straight, never let them fall, use licensed peripherals, etc. There's no reason they should fail. Most of my consoles failures broke because I used them to play games! Totally unacceptable. Luckily, in this day and age, manufacturers are being held accountable.

Oops, I didn't really clean any of my consoles, at all... >_>; That may explain the first PS2...

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DonFerrari on 11 January 2016

tiffac said:

DonFerrari said:

tiffac said:
The PS2 is certainly the worse console ever. Not only its full of shovelwares but it has a higher failure rate than the Xbox 360!

And not a single good game =p I'm even baffled of how can it fail if you wouldn't ever turn it on since there was no game worth playing.

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AsGryffynn on 12 January 2016

DonFerrari said:

AsGryffynn said:

DonFerrari said:

Darc Requiem said:
@DonFerrari

There is no way the original PS2, (Non Slim Model), only had 5-10% failure rate. I knew one person. That didn't have their original model PS2 fail. They settle the class action suit for a reason. Before the 360, the PS2 was by far the most unreliable console.

10% is still very high... and wearing the reading driver down isn't a failure at all... or do you consider your car to have failed by having to exchange the tire every 50k km/35k miles and changing oil every 10k km/6k mile?? There is a difference between a system failing and a wearing down.

PS1 and PS2 'failure rates' are using numbers for consoles "dying" after several years of use, and not under 1-2 years, and they aren't from mal function or similar issues they were wear down. As myself said my PS1 died after 5 years of intense use (after 3 years I had to use it bottom up or side up, and on year 5 there was no way besides replacing the driver, which I preffered to change to PS2 entirely) and my PS2 also were wear down but still reading with some tries. Should I consider that as failure rate similar to RROD? I posted it because the console did "break with me". But if we are going to use "infinite time" as measure them all machine failed or will fail, so it's obnoxious comparation.

Now while on the warranty or 1-2 year use 5-10% is quite probably true and still above industry standard and why it wasn't considered reliable at the time. But sure compare a disc reading system to a cartridge and show your knowledge about mechanics.

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DonFerrari said:

Yes it was high, but no it wasn't near as high as RROD, don't pretend that is true... from what I recollect PS2 was around 5-10% and X360 around 30% at the launch models time, hardly equal.

Well...

http://web.archive.org/web/20110208143421/http://www.reviewmatic.com/?p=366

It is the closest thing you will get to a site reporting this...

Funny enough I have found a lot more than this, but I won't post here, if you like the image of a 40% failure rate for PS2 and under 20% for RROD early models X360 it's your choice it won't change facts.

LudicrousSpeed said:

360 - I went through three of these. The first two due, of course, to RROD. lol, I remember being so excited about getting the first "repair" back, I could finally rejoin all my coworkers in our nightly late night Search & Destroy CoD4 marathons. I unpacked it, hooked it up, 10 minutes later it was flashing RROD again. Second "repair" lasted a few days I think. Finally the third console they sent back was actually a new model and never gave me any troubles.

Xbone - My Xbox One died recently and to be honest idk if I am going to pay for the repair or if I am done with MS. I hit up support because one game was making my console lag and would barely load, all other apps and games were just fine. The agent directed me to the Xbone offline diagnostic tool page and basically just told me good luck and that's all the help I got. I followed his instructions and it didn't work. But then, neither did my console. After days of talking with support I was told to try another file system off the page, no dice. I was then told by an agent that I was originally given bad repair support and told the wrong thing and that as a result my console was bricked and MS would be happy to pay for the repair. I sent it in as instructed, then a few days later got an email from someone at the repair center saying they had my unit but no repair order. So I talk to support again and then they say the other agent was wrong, it isn't their fault the unit bricked, and I don't get a free repair. I told them to send it back, that I wouldn't pay to fix their mistake. Someone from escalated support contacted me and she is supposedly trying to work out some sort of courtesy repair. If they honor their word, cool, I will continue to support them over my PS4 since I like the UI and controller more. If not, fuck em, I have a PS4 and will buy a secondary backup PS4 before I'd spend $100+ to fix their mistake.

By the way, I think the most durable console I have ever owned is the Genesis. Mine was submerged for hours in a flood but as soon as I dried it out I was back to playing NBA Jam just fine.

Well at least you had your X360 failed and covered and ended up with a reliable model that you could use for years after warranty =]

And I'm sorry about your X1, they seemed to be a lot more reliable than previous gen Xbox by what we were seeing, could the customer line employee being this BS because the issue is smaller and within expected rates? I hope it solve out. I hate those agents that always says the previous was wrong and just wash out as that wasn't supposed to be a company mistake that they need to take care. They operate like each one is only responsible by what they say and the company isn't responsible by none, quite moronic =[

My genesis was quite resilient as well, although it only experienced several falls due to me being a young kid and wires, but never had moisture on it.

Cobretti2 said:

DonFerrari said:

So you had 2 consoles that failed but you didn't reported, but wanted to report the playstation failures? You say you didn't claim it was a mass wide problem but wanted to buff the numbers with a person you know, but also didn't want to put the numbers of friends that hadn't high failures like you or this one had, right?

You're making a mountain out of a mole hill here.

I just stated some numbers. I didn't even go on a rant about how shit a PS2 is, why? because I don't have to. Consoles back then were literally plug and play so if it died who cares, replace it and put your game and memory card in another. 360 as you can see in my earlier post, I stayed away from launch models, because I CBF backing up my hdd, profile settings etc... with the fear it will die and I have to start from scratch.

As for the two items, my 360 still works, the dvd tray gets jammed sometimes cause of the front flap spring being too tight (hardly a broken console), And as for the NES, if I really wanted to stop the flashing light I could have manually fixed the pins to have a tighter grip on the cart, so hardly a broken console.

I only consider a broken console where I can't get the game to boot up or the system to bootup.

Am I? You use a definition different than the OP just to make a point that is skewed and I'm to fault? Were each of your system booting up? Was their problem defects or wear down?

Mind giving me the phrase to google for? I was willing to go that far for people at least, even though I just Googled "PS2 Failure Rate" and no news site will report on it...

But perhaps someone can only play copycat regarding my search methods. It'd seem like the internet took what was left of their brain...

I used things like "console failure rate comparison" and the like, not singling out a system. There were some sites, foruns and the like where PS2 was usually bellow 10% assumption of failure, but even 40% would unlikely lead to 7 consoles failing on someone.

WoodenPints said:
It's kinda weird seeing that so many people have had so many hardware failures myself and a few friends along with my entire family have never had a single console fail since owning Master Systems / NES. Mine/family's console's were played 8+ hours daily across many years back when the entire family was using them at different times of the day as well so they got some serious usage and a lot more than most would of.

The only breakage I that happened was a friend dropping his PS2 down the stairs but thats a different story lol.

Must have good luck in this neck of the woods lol.

My neighbour had a buring ground for broken controllers, he had like 15 PS1 destroyed controllers... and I played more than they and never had to scrap a single official controller in my life (the only I had to were PS1 knock offs that failed after 2 uses on PS2 with 2 multitaps playing fifa with 8 people). My PS3 controllers had random inputs (due to rubber wearing down, that needed me dissassemlbing, cleaning and putting a small paper there) and my genesis controllers needed a cleaning every 6 months to keep working. And those aren't breaking down on my book, just wearing the mechanical parts of something. My ps4 controler on the left analog have a dent on the rubber that I'm unsure if from use or my 1y old have bite it.

I have seem how some people threat their consoles and controllers and them claim the system is cheapealy made.

But maybe my family isn't much of a comparison since we have had furniture that were really cheap and supposed to be falling apart after 2 years living for 10 years and be almost perfect.

Really? The only thing I can find is a seventh generation comparison that claims a 35 percent failure rate for Jasper (I sort of believe it) and a bunch of forum claims pulled out of people's noses... nothing conclusive...

Also, bad luck. Some Xenon units failed even more than the others. They were very unreliable even among their own kind. Not unbelievable that the PS2 failed 7 times. The models had a very feeble build and sturdied as the sales rose...

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/news101105ps2lawsuit

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