Anyone ever had broken consoles?

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

The Bluray-reader on my PS3 gave in last week, after about 3,5 years of use. It is the first console I've owned that has broke down however, which is pretty impressive considering that my first console was a NES and my old Sega Mega Drive II still is in working condition (in itself a miracle considering the abuse me and my sister visited upon it in our younger years).

 

[Scott Rothman]

My PS3 just 'died' or rather it's Blu-Ray laser did. When I feel like it, I'll probably drop the 40 bucks for a new laser and swap it.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

Broke my original Xbox when trying to mod it, had to get a new motherboard and HD for it.
Xbox 360 RR'd twice.
My PS2 Slim died after four years
My family's PS3 has never had problems.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Just my old xbox 360. It gave up after about 6 years. My Master System and SNES still work perfectly so that's kind of hilarious. I'm assuming my Atari 2600 does too but it's in the loft.

 

[SecondPrize]

I've had to buy three 360s as my first died somehow and the second stopped reading disks. Other than those, the things I still own still work.

 

[Teoes]

My NES was never quite the same after an anvil of a telly keeled over on top of it so if it doesn't work these days I blame that incident many years ago. That is all!

 

[rofltehcat]

My SNES is still ok but my sister's pet rat ate the cables... other than that, we had one of the GBAs fail once but the Gamecube and the PSP are still running strong.
Of the current gen we don't have any but we have 3 PCs, of which each one failed at some point... after several years of heavy use and even then we just had to cheaply replace 1 part (1 power supply ~50?, 2 motherboards ~150? each) to get them back running.

Current gen consoles just fail far too often and then a repair isn't possible or affordable... I hope that gets better next gen.

 

[MrMisfit]

2 consoles that I've owned have broken on me. 1st was my first PS2. It was an original model and the disc tray broke somehow. The 2nd was the first PS3 I owned. It went YLOD on me one day.

 

[Artlover]

My first Xbox360 broke, RROD.

My A2600, A5200, A7800, Jaguar, NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, Colecovision, Intellivision, Xbox, PSx, and PS2 all work just fine though.

 

[Morsomk_v1legacy]

My original PS2 stopped playing disks because of the dust overload that went into its fan. Learned a valuable lesson that day, always(or regularly) clean the fans of your consoles and computers.

 

[M Silverthorn]

Skyrim killed my first XBOX360. I had just finished building a classy orc warrior by the name of "Barachus", because hey, he looked just like the guy. Bam, redring. One of those codes that basically proclaimed "Yeah, even we can't fix this one. Har har. Love, M$."

Weirdly enough, the oldest, dustiest consoles that I own, or a member of my family owns, are the most durable of all. I have a NES sitting in its box that I fired up successfully about a month ago - 25 years after it was originally purchased.

 

[Ren_Li]

Let's see. I've had, I think, THREE 360 consoles die on me- two disk drive issues, and one fan issue; the last one was so soon after the previous one that I couldn't transfer my licenses, which was a whole world of frustrating as I only connect my 360 when I absolutely need to. And I found my original Game Boy whilst I was sorting out my old room at my parents' house a few years ago, and it wouldn't switch on.

Original Playstation never died before I moved out (although my parents ensured it saw virtually no use), and I had to replace the original XBOX controllers, but never the console (and the controllers were a pet-chewing-cables issue). Don't know where my Game Boy Colour ended up but I don't remember it malfunctioning; Game Boy Advances I believe still work fine, and the only DS issue I had was entirely my fault, and involved a glass of water and me being too asleep to know what I was doing. I could go on, but yeah- other than an ancient Game Boy which was not exactly carefully stored, it's been 360 console after 360 console.

(As if I needed another reason to be wary of any new Microsoft products...)

 

[Vivi22]

My original launch model PS3 yellow lighted a few years back, but aside from that I've had no other consoles die (I credit the low failure rate to never owning a 360).

Hell, my PS2 is one I got at launch and it still runs perfectly almost 13 years later despite them being notorious from suffering disk read errors if nothing else.

 

[Norrdicus]

Yet my 10+ year old PS2 is still chugging away like the day it came out of the box.

Good old trusty PS2 fatty. Shame the controllers aren't as durable, I've broken at least 4 of them

My original PS2 stopped playing disks because of the dust overload that went into its fan. Learned a valuable lesson that day, always(or regularly) clean the fans of your consoles and computers.

I almost never tighten the screws on one of the panels on my computer anymore, because sliding it to the side and getting rid of dust seems to be the best way to make things work

 

[MasterMasamune]

2 of my family's 360s have RROD'd, and my first Wii crashed while I was playing some anime game (probably a Dragon Ball game) and stopped reading discs for some reason. My Game Boy Color died somehow, but since I think it previously belonged to my brother, he might be to blame. Oddly, my N64, Mega Drive, and first model PS2 have all survived to this day.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

My original NES died after about 5 years. My Megadrive was fine. My PS1 died after about 4 years and my mate knocking off the table too many times. The PS2 still works fine.

I've had 5 xbox 360's...2 of which were from the original batch but the 3 failures since then have been the same problem but in a slightly different light. My current 360 is starting to show signs that it will die soon aswell and it is less than 9 months old. Good old MicroShaft with their legacy of a fucking terrible product.

 

[teqrevisited]

I suppose I can count myself as one of the lucky ones. None of my consoles and only 3 games have ever stopped working. I've had my Sega Megadrive for 20 years, PS1 for just under 19, PS2 for 13 and I've got an SNES that's 21 years old and apart from the PS2 being picky about PS1 discs everything is fine.

 

[The Lugz]

Okay, throughout my life of playing games, I've had 2 game consoles die on me.

First was my Nintendo Gamecube, things were going just fine with it until afew years later when it wouldn't play a single game for longer than around 45 seconds, after that, it freezes completely. fortunately, my dad called Nintendo and they delivered a replacement Gamecube for $50.

Second, just afew days ago, my Xbox 360 pulled a d***-move extrodinaire and refused to play any of my games, it would just go on it's reading stage for what meant like an entire minute before acting like I placed nothing in it. Now I have to wait 'till my dad can afford to help me get it repaired.

Has anyone else here faced their game consoles being broken?

i broke three gameboys, a psone, psp and several controllers

all my consoles ( except the psone ) have survived, however

so the answer is no i am indeed quite lucky everything i buy works, until it gets manhandled.

the only defect i can complain of is the aggrivating 'EEK' Squeeeee EEK that the right trigger makes on my xbox controller it sounds like a rusty spring rubbing on a metal something which is odd, maby it's rubbing on itself?

 

[Saregon]

The only broken "console" I have is my Gameboy Color, which has gone senile and as I mentioned elsewhere won't read my cartridges anymore (or rather, create save files).

That sounds like the battery in the cartridges have died, which prevents it from saving to them. You can fix that by opening the cartridges and swapping out the battery, there are a bunch of guides on google. I had the same thing with my SNES, and that fix worked like a charm.

OT: Only one. My Xbox 360 Elite died on me after 3 and a half years, red-ringed.

 

[White Wizard]

Never; however reading all these comments has given me the heeby Jeebs. My NES and SNES which I beat the living daylights out of always worked until it was sent off to a nephew or neice eons ago and not seen since. My N64 which I bought on release also worked like a charm until it was traded at school for an air rifle, as young boys do!

However last month I bought an XBOX 360 new from Game UK and yeah all works fine, since I am primarily a PC Gamer I am only planning on buying a few XBOX games, and highly likely to be collectors editions, games that I enjoy playing on a console more such as RDR, GTA and COD. However the XBOX may take over as my primary games console for all genre except strategy / GOD games or ones i heavily mod.

Now I would hate to make such an investment in XBOX gaming, if I need to replace the console every 3 years!