Poll: How many consoles have died on you?
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Same. Through Spectrum ZXs, Commodore 64s, Amigas, Mega Drives etc. etc. all have lived!Dkozza said:
I've had my Xbox 360 a week and it's still going nicely. I didn't bother going for the extended warranty because if it does break then I'll just sell all my games and get a console that works. Not going to keep giving them money for their mistakes. I BOUGHT a console, I didn't SUBSCRIBE to one.
I paid 60 bucks or something at best buy and you can return it as many times as you need. As proof a friend played hacky sack with his PSP and they gave him a new one...so yeah warranties can be very good. Or in the case of Gamestop where you have to rebuy your warranty every fail that happens, horrible.JokerGrin said:
My Gamecube eventually died on me. I tried playing something on it, and it basically told me to go fuck myself.
Enjoy tempting fate my friend. I had an original launch Xbox 360 that had a ton of hours on it. Hell, when Oblivion came out that system was on 24/7 between me and my roommates. After two years it looked like I had gotten one of the good launch systems.Jester Lord said:
Well, it failed on me in a most inopportune time. I got it replaced for free special thanks to the extended warranty. The refurbished system I got ran loud as hell and only lasted about 6 months before it red ringed on me.
The moral of the story: Launch 360s will fail on you, it's just a matter of time.
My dog actually peed on my NES, and somehow it still works. I actually just hauled it out of the closet last month to fill the gaming gap, when my Xbox 360 finally RRODed.Sacman said:
Granted, Super Mario Bros. 3 is no Fallout. But Fallout is certainly no Super Mario Bros. 3 either.
There's probably some grand life lesson to be learned here, but as a gamer, I was too busy buying a new 360 with money I barely have to learn it.
Hmm... never owned a conole that died, touch wood. My housemates launch 360 got RROD by GTA IV but i replaced that with an elite. bought a Saturn once that didnt work, just poked a few places with a screwdriver and now its fine. Also bought a dreamcast that kept resetting but just removed the modem and now is also fine. Launch PS2, fine, Mega Drive fine, SNES fine. I am a lucky bastard.
Out of the one Sega Megadrive, two PS1's, three PS2's, one Xbox and one Xbox 360 only the Megadrive, one PS1 (the original PSX) and one PS2 has ever become unusable. I've had my 360 since the Christmas of it's release and it still works (touch wood) so I guess I'm one of the lucky ones in that respect.
I don't know. My 360 has been through a lot. Like being hit with a hammer and having liquid spilled on it multiple times and it's fine.=DGraham said:
I have to wonder what people are doing to their systems to have to replace so many times. Ive had 2600,nes,snes,genesis, dreamcast, ps1/2, n64, GC, xbox/360, so far I've only had to replace a ps1 and thats when my tv fell on it. I don't dust them or anything, the only thing I do is to turn them off when I'm not using them.
I don't doubt that people have had problems, but I find it hard to believe when people claim they have replaced the 360 5-8 times. When I get defective electronics I stop messing with it after the 2nd return and find another brand
I don't doubt that people have had problems, but I find it hard to believe when people claim they have replaced the 360 5-8 times. When I get defective electronics I stop messing with it after the 2nd return and find another brand
Same thing happened to my friend, I had gotten it the day before and it gotten him excited to play it, he gets home puts it on and makes it through the opening credits.......RROD.MonkeySlayer said:
I had 6 xbox360s die on me in 5 months, this is a system I kept out open to breathe (I heard about problems with overheating) all my systems I treat like gold. Like I said, it might just be a bad run of luck/systems considering the luck others have had vs me.Squarewave said:
I'm not spewing hate for the 360, I really love the games I have on it, it just bothers me when I have to go back to bestbuy holding another brick. The PS2 I've come to understand (the large ones anyway) that the DRE would come from the gears or the laser lens getting out of sync, and can be easily fixed (I found that out around the 3rd ps2).