Anyone ever had broken consoles?

[Serinanth]

Yep, I purchased a Microsoft product. Three elites to be exact, and I managed to get them all repaired no cost to me, well after my original warranty period.

My first gen PS3 lost its Blueray ability.

Whats still hasn't quit on me?

Intellivision II
Atari 2600
NES
Master System
SNES
Genesis
GameCube
Saturn
N64
Dreamcast
PS1
PS2

 

[keniakittykat]

let's see, had a gamecube die on me before, 2 xbox 360s RROD'd and my first PS3...didn't die precisely, but it started having trouble, so sensing that it was on it's way out, I traded it in at my local retailer for a model with more Hard Drive space, which is now owned by my sister as I have one with yet more space now, and saving to trade-up once again

EDIT: oh yeah and one PS2 died on me, I gave it a funeral, it served me well for a long time

What the hell did you do?!

I tried the whole "viking funeral" thing

I had this swimming pool out back, not dug into the ground it was kinda like a paddling pool but much bigger about 5 feet high. I had a small inflatable dingy from when I was a kid, I filled it with toilet paper (toilet paper being the softest and most flammable material avaliable to me at the time) so I put the PS2 in it, and set the toilet paper alight with a lighter and let it drift in the pool, while the Metal Gear Solid theme was playing on a nearby stereo (it was the most appropriate piece of music I could think of) I tried to time it so that it would get to the right part of the track at the right time. I was 16 at this point by the way, now I didn't consider the fact that very few materials involved were flammable, I'm not sure how to discribe what happened, but it was kind of...less than was expected, the toilet paper burned up and sort of blew away, the fire had burned holes in the dingy and the whole thing just vanished below the water reslly quick I was hoping it would be slower than that, end result was kinda disappointing. Especially since I got into a fair bit of trouble for it.

I kinda wish you made a video of it... Because that might have been the most awesome failure involving a kiddie pool, a broken ps2 and toilet paper I may ever read in my life.

 

[MoreThanANoob]

My family's Wii broke once. It was replaced easily enough, though.

I also went through a grand total of three PS1s over the course of roughly five years. One of them I got from a second-hand store, and it had a BMX game still inside.

 

[Thebazilly]

My very first PS3 (a used BC model) got the yellow light a grand total of three hours after I bought it. I returned it the next day for a different one that has lasted me a few years, until a couple weeks ago, when it, too, went yellow light.

I'm going to attempt to repair it myself with help from the many internet guides, since I am a poor college student without the money to get it professionally repaired.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I had 2 xbox 360's die on me, but that's all I have to report. I still have a Mega-Drive and a Game-Gear that work perfectly. I think that mostly, consoles seem to be built pretty well.

 

[GloatingSwine]

My only 7th gen console that has survived in working condition is my Nintendo DS, I've gone through 3 Xboxen, 2 PS3s, and have a broken Wii and PSP that aren't getting replaced.