Which video game consoles have you owned that broke?

zombie a gogo

I've owned consoles since the Atari days and the only consoles that have broke on me are the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3.

How about you guys?

kiwi_bird

Playstation 2 and my SNES. But I think my SNES broke after sticking it into 220V instead of 110V.

kage_rod

Absolutely nothing, although my brothers 360 broke on him twice.

I've owned a Wii and a DS as my most recent purchases, as well as a PS2. The PS2 has survived very long, well into my brother's PS3 time. I've handled it roughly, it's been to college and back several times, it's been used for public events quite a few times as well, and it still works wonderfully. The Wii hasn't gotten much action to tell the truth; my brother is the one playing with that the most because I prefer my portable and PC games. My DS is used, with scratches and one hinge off, but still works wonderfully (just looks ugly as all hell get out).

I think they just decided to care more about the aesthetics and the power of the machines rather than any durability, which sucks. Durability is the best part about consoles, I think, because you can easily buy them used and enjoy them reasonably well.

chaosof99

I bought a 360 in late july/early august last year, it broke early September and I got sent back a brand new which arrived at the end of the month. No problems since then. I still have a PS1 upstairs that should still work, at least the last time I hooked it up it still did, but sometimes I had to spin the disc with my fingers, close the tray and press start real quick to make it run.

Nintendo pretty much makes the most reliable products from personal experience and what I have heard around. No problems with my Wii so far and my original (!) Gameboy also still works. The 7 year old NES also still worked when my sister's now ex-boyfriend took it. Gotta get that thing back sometime.

Li_Akahi

My GBA SP's screen broke and my main PS2 controller works spottily.

Viga

Yes but it wasn't my fault. My older sister poured bleach and cleaners in it when she destroyed my room a few years back. The other was an accident with a PSone but it was fixable with some CD player parts.

zombie a gogo

she destroyed my room a few years back

Please, tell us more!

JukeBoxJosh

Hmmm... thinking back, I don't think any of my sytems have broken. My SNES works just fine with Super Mario World and Mario Paint, the N64 still works with what's important (Star Fox 64, Mario Tennis, Yoshi's Story, and Ocarina of Time), my GameCube works with Pikmin and Air Ride, and the PS2 works with everything but Budokai 3 because my sister threw away the case and it got scratched to bits.

One Sin

I broke a Gameboy Pocket and an N64 once.

I dropped a chair on the GBP (don't ask how) and the N64 overheated and broke. I guess that's what I get for plowing through LoZ: Majora's Mask on a hot summer day. >_<

fuzzyj

My PS2 kind of melted, it got hit by a firework while hooked up to a projector (reads as, dumb-ass friend thought a 179 degree would be a great idea) last summer. Also my original GB broke but it lasted 14 or 15 years so it died a honourable death.

Jason

My GBA SP's screen broke and my main PS2 controller works spottily.

It's that damned R3 button. I've gone through about 4 controllers because of that.

I've never had a console break on me. My Genesis lasted about 12 years before I finally sold it, and I bought a broken PS2 and fixed the laser. I briefly toyed with the idea of buying a 360, but I decided the failure rate was unacceptably high. Nothing just out of the box should have a 30 percent chance of equipment failure; that it can be fixed for free by Microsoft is irrelevant.

Apreche

The Atari 2600 that I semi-inherited from my parents is the only one that was ever broken. My NES never broke, it just wore out from heavy use, as did those of everyone else that I knew. Well, except for those bastards with top loaders. Damn them! My Genesis never broke until we stopped using it and stored it in the basement. We hauled it out awhile ago, and it was non-functional. All portables and newer consoles are functioning just fine.

Kiey

Only my 360 has ever broken... well it still breaks. I get red rings ever so often since the disc drive is lame, and Microsoft won't fix it.

Andrew

Right now my Xbox has traveled to Mt. Doom in order to throw the One Ring (of death) into the fires of the mountain.

Viga

she destroyed my room a few years back

Please, tell us more!

She's legally insane. Seriously insane. A dangerous one nowadays. She's not super special but special enough to get a govt. check. I'll end it there.

My PS2 kind of melted, it got hit by a firework while hooked up to a projector (reads as, dumb-ass friend thought a 179 degree would be a great idea) last summer.

Most original console death evar. I salute your console death.

Right now my Xbox has traveled to Mt. Doom in order to throw the One Ring (of death) into the fires of the mountain.

LOL.

Drex

Never had any problems with consoles, although i haven't bought anything from the newest generation yet since I'm waiting for the failure rate to drop. The closest thing to broken is my golden-eye cart that has turned an unhealthy yellow colour.

Omnutia

The speakers on my DS Lite stopped working a while ago but now they're fine.

Hitman Hart

My N64 is dead, sadly, and my Gamecube's reset and open buttons are stuck, so I have to put a game case or two on it to keep the top down

am_dragon

Systems that I have owned that quit working from nothing other than normal use: NES (wear on the cart slot), Two Playstation 1's, A Nintendo DS Phat (touch screen died), 360 (ROD), and now I'm pretty sure my Wii. I'm going to call on the Wii it will not read a disc on the first try. I have to remove the disk, turn off the Wii, turn it on and re-insert the disk to change games, every time.

On the other hand I still have an Xbox, a Dreamcast, and SNES that work great. I also have a working Apple IIc circa 1982. I take it out and fire it up every once in a while, it works fine.

iruul

I had an N64 once and one of my retarded cousins wanted to play SNES games on the N64 so he pried an SNES tape open, took the chip inside and mashed it into the N64. Needless to say, it was not functional afterwards.

mkg12

None have broked so far. The consoles I got new were the NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy color, original DS, DS lite, PS, PS2. The consoles I got used and still work are the Genesis and N64.

Li_Akahi

My DS fat's AC adapter port broke, it unfortunately took me two weeks and $25 dollars to figure it out.

Ametto

My second and third gameboy. The screens just died.

Aside from that none luckily.

gohanrice

The only console that comes close to being broken is my Atari 2600, in which the power cable stopped functioning. The console itself works just fine when used with another cable. The other consoles are all in working order (Famicom [J], NES, SNES, GB [J], GBC, N64, GameCube [J], GBA SP, DS, Wii [J], Genesis, Dreamcast, PS [J], PS2, PSP [J], and PS3). We've lost a few PS2 controllers due to inactivity and numerous DDR pads.

I'm curious to know how many Xbox 360s have not failed. About half of my friends who own(ed) the 360 suffered from the dreaded Red Ring of Death.

Linkigi(Link-ee-jee)

I have to have dropped and consequently broken at least two GBC's in my time as an 8-year-old playing with my Pokemans. Other than that, my PS2 can no longer play DVDs, CDs, or PS1 games, and my DS Phat's touch screen seems to be cracked, but otherwise they work fine.

am_dragon

You have to be kidding me... So I took yesterday off to do some work around the house, like box up my Wii and send it in because the DVD drive went out. Later I sat down to play my 360. Red Ring of Death. That's my 2nd 360 and I'm now out 2 next gen systems due to hardware failure. I have the worst luck.

La Petit Mort

I only lost a PSP, but it's because one of my..."Horizontaly proficient" friends sat on it. He bought me a PSP-2000 soon after.

VegettoEX

Interestingly enough, despite my (false?) belief that Nintendo systems are the ones that keep on chugging, most of the problems I've had seem to come from them.

My NES was just like anyone else's, what with all the blowing on cartridges, taking them out, smashing them back in, etc. A couple years back I decided to do one of the little DIY "rip it apart and push the pins back into place" procedures, and it pretty much worked flawlessly. All of my games were working right on the first try. The only "problem" is that I never actually screwed the system back together, so it basically sits there with its top off.

SNES was another to go. Probably five or six years back, "Super Mario All-Stars" was the only game that would play perfectly. I started noticing weirdness in "Super Mario World" when on the second stage to the right of the start, that rotating platform... uhh... wasn't actually there. The block that holds it in place was there (if that makes sense), but the actual platform wasn't swinging around. Of course, that makes the level absolutely impossible to play. Trying to play "F-Zero", the car would rev-up and be ready to go... but then it would just sit there and all the other cars would fly on down the race track. Huh. I could get to a fight in "DBZ: Super Butoden 3", but then the characters would just slowly start rising up into the air, and I couldn't control anything past that. So obviously something was wrong with the system; all of my games shouldn't randomly crap out at once. I got a new SNES last Christmas, and sure enough, everything was playing perfectly on the new system (well, new to me... it was used).

I think the first one to go on me, however, was actually my N64. It just wouldn't power up any more. Girlfriend had a spare one, though, so we just used that.

Same thing happened to my VirtualBoy... just wouldn't power up any more one day. Actually, the power would come up (red light), but nothing would show up for video, and no audio would start, either. It would just kinda "click" and hum on and then nothing. Really irritated, since I want to play more "Galactic Pinball"...

I think the only other system to go on my was my PlayStation. I believe it was the second model system (no individualized yellow/white/red jacks in the back). I played import games on the system via an external Action Replay in the parallel port in back. To do this, you would have to keep the flap open with a spring holding down the little tab. From what I understand, this just wore out the laser more quickly than normal (though I don't know how much I believe that). Eventually it took longer and longer for it to load up imports, until finally it just refused to do it anymore. I think it still works if I use it as a regular system with regular ol' US games, but I haven't exactly tried in ages (the US-PS2 & JP-PS2 just take care of any PS1 gaming needs).

I've had my 360 since July, and it's still going. The only problems I've ever had have actually been "This disc is unreadable"-type errors when playing "Rock Band". Got that three times. Pop it out and back in and it works, though.

System that's taken the most abuse and still works like a charm? Toaster GameBoy.

Victor Frost

My Dreamcast, which I am desperately trying to fix. My PS2 is acting wonky as well. Its taking forever to recognize the discs. I might need to clean the lens.

Li_Akahi

My Dreamcast, which I am desperately trying to fix. My PS2 is acting wonky as well. Its taking forever to recognize the discs. I might need to clean the lens.

No! Not a Dreamcast! That system was awesome!

dutopia

The drive spinner came off my PS1 but I fixed it with a lego brick. My PS2 suffered from that 'drive tilt' issue - First it was DVDs and then the game stopped working as well, sigh. The SNES was a total hard ass, i dropped that bad boy a few times and my dog pulled it off my desk before, but it kept on working!