Xbox is dead, share your console death stories

[dagens24]

I had my PS3 YLOD on me; went to play a Blu-Ray and as I was going to pop it in it kicked the bucket. Found a dude in my city on kijiji who repaired it for $50; bought a slim and transferred over all my saves.

Also my Wii GPU is fucked up; got damaged from a Wii Connect heating issue with the launch units; I get green and red pixels all over the screen when I play games. It's still playable, just annoying.

 

[hooglese]

I think my favorite console death I've ever experienced was my friends. He had just gotten an xbox 360, his first gaming console, and being a 15 year old, this was kind of a big deal. We had the games, the controllers we were ready to rock, all we had to do was plug it in. Then BAM red rings of death. That's right, a brand new xbox 360, just out of the package, was already broken.

 

[ProtoChimp]

So my xbox is done in. The worst part about it is that it was the shitty 4GB model, which I never wanted to get but that's what happens when your mum buys your console. I was young, and stupid, and should have forked out for the 250GB. For those who don't know the 250GB version has a hard drive you can take out, but the shitty 4GB one uses a flash drive that's built in. So my XCOM, Red Dead Redemption, Saints Row 1 2 and 3, GTA4, Fallout 3, Fable 2 and 3, Prototype 1, Mass Effect 1 2 and 3 and Assassins Creed 1 2 3 Brotherhood and Revelations saves are all gone. Dead, buried and there ain't fuck all I can do about it. The worst part, I mean more worse than what I said before, is that I keep remembering save games that I lost so I can't move on and just forget.

Eh, I would be very surprised if you couldn't get some outlet to transfer your save file data dude.

You mean like a device or a person to do it, cos I have a wire transfer but the xbox needs to be on and the memory drive thing is internal and cannot be taken out.

 

[Awesomesauce123]

My Gameboy Color died, like, a week ago .

 

[BytByte]

My Wii was the only close call I had with problems. A little metal bit on the inside of the console was making it harder for the disc drive to turn, which cause overheating and a ridiculously loud little white box, which would eventually end with the disc just failing after and hour or so. Luckily, I opened it up, and used the best thing to ever use when messing around with consoles and knowing nothing about them: paper. Just folded up a little piece of paper which moved the metal thingy up, and now the Wii is quiet and cool to the touch.