SNES and PS2 broke.... (120v on 240v so I used adaptaters and I suspect the cleaning lady to have grilled the SNES that way... the PS2 is because a friend of mine could not read the 120V postit I had on the plug.... yeah...)

Besides that.... My first Pentium PC broke, the hard drive ticks. My PC15-12 got the "oops I deleted the boot sequense and have no idea how to put it back" bug and my Win 2000 PC got a motherboard problem... no image even if I switch video cards...

360 is fine though

edit: oh yeah I did have the upsidedown PS1 thing too.

To be fair only Nintendo have a clean record in the manufacturing stakes.

I lost two PS2's due to laser head alignment but all my Nintendo consoles still run perfectly.

there is a ISO for that, min is 3. max is 6. PSP 1000 lcd were manufactured by sharp, and PSP 2000+ by samsung+sony joint venture.

all aplicable for warranty.

electronic are done by humans it's understanble to have problems, from lens not reading disc to L R buttons on the nintendo DS.

but what happening to 360 could have been avoided if the console was tested well before release, even if they had to delay it.

and the scratching disc problem it's due microsoft removing a safety band in some samsung dvd reader, its cost saving measure, but cheap and it but damage the consumer.

I would guess if we go all digital distribution with solid state hard drives, reliability will go back up to SNES/Genesis standards, or even better. The problem with consoles with hard drives and diskdrives/lasers is all the moving parts. There is no plastic or metal that can move back and forth or spin forever, it WILL break eventually. Personally, I think we should go back to cartridges, I mean we can do 32GB SD cards, why couldn't we do 32GB (or more) cartridges? Then it's all solid state, no moving parts, and old schoolers like me still get our physical game.

And people are surprised by Microsofts lack of stable hardware because? IT'S BEEN HAPPENING FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS!

prior to this generation i never had a console break.

this generation my 360 broke once and my wii broke twice. ps3 - last console standing. xD

Like many have said, the original Xbox was rock solid, so many though at least their console hardware would be neat. Obviously they slipped up, I doubt very much it will happen next gen.

Been an Xbox gamer since 2002 and not once console has broken on me ^^

Hmm

I've lost: A couple of PS1s, 3 PS2's (Soriku said that the manual says not to play games for more than 5 hours for the PS2 slim) and I've lost a couple of PS3s (Folding @ home is a killer i guess).

Now the Xbox 36O of mine has been abused quite heavily and I lost the DVD drive in it ;_; so that had to be repaired. But the hardware itself is pretty good for a first gen Falcon.

<My Leg>  Xbox 36O <24OO watt oil fin heater> and the gaps were less than 6 inches between. I got the hardware stinkingly hot and yet there were absolutely no troubles with it, and I did this over a period of 2 months over winter last year when the house was really cold and I didn't want to get up to change discs.

I had an original xbox and it broke TWICE.
I had a 360 but it RROD'd so i threw the fucking thing away.
I'm glad you all found success with MS but I guarantee I will not pay for any hardware from them again.