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[deriks]

Gamepass on firestick? Not much of a hw investment.

I can do with my humble notebook and a HDMI. It's fine. Can't play Doom for obvious reasons thou

He'd have to pay even more than when he got his XSX, sadly.

Thanks, MSFT.

For sure. Back then I got one for R$ 4400 and I even got R$ 400 for cashback, making the console basically for R$ 4000. Nowadays the cheapest I could find cost R$ 5500, but normal price is R$ 6k+

PS5 on other hand is cheaper, but mostly because Series X turned into a online only sale. You can't find in "normal stores". PS5 you find at any electronic store

My saddest console story was due to theft rather than a breakdown. I had a crazy girlfriend who lived a few towns away from me. I kept my NES, SNES, and a bunch of games at her apartment for her since she enjoyed them and it gave me something to do when I was at her place and she had to go to class or work.

Long story short, we broke up, things got ugly and her last words were, "you're never getting your games back."

Holy shit, that's a really mean ex girlfriend

When I graduated from school and went worked as a waiter, I went to a mall to shop for new games for my Xbox 360 (the new generation had already arrived, so it was kind of easy to get great prices on games) and got: Froza Motorsport 4, Halo Anniversary and Resident evil 6.

That same DAY my xbox 360 decided to somehow get picky and messed up its 720p capabilities so I could just connect it to the only 1080p TV in my house that was my parents. On the plus side this convinced my parets to gift us a brand new Xbox one, on the sad side: it was an Xbox one (jk, i used it a lot and even used from time to time to this day. Easily the best worst console I have ever owned)


As a recommendation: fix it yourself. I know it sounds crazy, but it is a good experience and you kind of get attached to the console your fix. Recently I decided to fix the Nintendo DS i bought like 10 years ago at 20 bucks because the hinge was broken, and I am loving the console! I learned to weld and do a lot of stuff with it thanks to my fixes.

I'm going to open him to have a look. I already accepted the defeat, but maybe things can turn to best

And I actually fixed my PS4. It was the launch window version, with the touch buttons and stuff. When the console heated a little, the standby button "was pressed" because of temperature. I read that if I put something to dissipate the heat it would work fine, and it did! I sold it a few years ago, but was a fine experience

I could also say that I fixed my PS3, but it was just a cooling problem. Just a little brush and there it go. It died for oxidation, but it was ok. By his end, PS5 was already two years I guess

 

[nowhat]

I did a thread on this way back, but I'll share my pain again. I preordered my PS5 in something like September or October 2000. Did I get it at launch, fuck no. It was late February (or early March, can't recall exactly).

So finally, I get my PS5. Do the initial install, start downloading some games, put the console on rest mode and go to meet a friend for a while (some people enjoy watching a progress bar, but ehh). While outside, to my delight the PS app now gives a notification when a game is playable/downloaded. I get a single notification. Then nothing...

Returning home, I find the PS5 has turned off. I try to turn it on, but nope. No beep, no three beeps. What it does is cycle the "rim light" in blue, nothing else. No booting into safe mode, nothing. Next day (this was after business hours, so I had to wait), after waiting for what seemed like an eternity I finally get a hold of Sony customer support. We go through the usual checklist (which I had already done, but I guess this is required), like trying a different power outlet/trying to boot into safe mode, but nope, it's dead Jim.

So he sends me the required paperwork to get it shipped to be repaired. The repair (or rather, replacement, at least the S/N was different in the unit I got back) took a little under two weeks, which is decent given that I had to send it to France. It didn't cost me anything extra, and the unit I got back has worked like a charm despite heavy use ever since. But yeah. At the time, I was "mildly" pissed about the whole ordeal.

 

[Diseased Yak]

I had the requisite multiple RROD back in the day, so there's that, but I guess my first ever experience with sad stuff along these lines was when my C64 decided to start dying.
See, back in the halcyon days of my youth, in 7th grade, I somehow got my parents to come up with $75 so I could buy a used C64 off a senior at my high school/jr. high. We were dirt poor, but they somehow made it happen. I was through the roof. It didn't even come with a floppy drive, instead I used audio tapes as magnetic storage. It also came with a cartridge (yes the Commodore 64 had a cartridge slot!) of the game Choplifter.

So there I was, only Choplifter to play (using keyboard only, I had no joystick), so I started saving for more games. I loved it, though. Taught myself Basic programming. Anyhoo, my first indication that something was wrong was the normal C64 blue screen started going red. I thought it was the TV I was using for a monitor at first, but no, after about 6 months of ownership, it wouldn't power up anymore...

Was a sad day.

 

[spookyfish]

The only consoles that had issues while still in-use was my launch-day OG Xbox and my launch-day Wii. The Xbox drive failed within a month of the 360 launch, and Microsoft repaired it for free. The Wii graphics card was failing (it was a known issue) and Nintendo also repaired that for free.

After years of storage, my NES wouldn't power on (fixed now) and my SNES graphics chip is dead--which really bums me out.

 

[drganon]

My ps1 stopped recognizing any controllers after a power surge.

 

[FR1908]

• The usual lens wear on the PlayStation 1.
• Two PSP batteries swelled up. I hadn't checked them for years, and suddenly, the entire back was puffed up. I hope my still-sealed SNES and Majora's Mask edition 3DS' are still in perfect condition...
• Do I need to mention anything about my Xbox 360? I've had the Red Ring of Death twice but managed to fix it both times.
• My Halo 4 Collector's Edition Xbox 360 Slim has an annoying issue—the disc tray randomly opens and closes. After a few tries, it eventually stays shut, but it bothers me since it's a CE console and not just a regular version.
• Three Game Gears—two have no sound, and one has both a black screen and no sound. Someday, I'll buy capacitor packs and upgraded LCD screens. For now, Analogue's Pocket will fulfill my Game Gear needs.
• I blew up an NTSC GameCube power supply because, in a drunken state, I only used the PAL plug without the proper voltage converter.

Out of a collection of about 80 handhelds, consoles and 2 arcade machines, the failure rate is quite low.

 

[Itchy Tickles]

N64 kept having issues, like 4 or 5 times within the Christmas period of release, the controllers wouldn't register inputs or something was always spinning my character around. Did have issues with some games (WWF No Mercy I think was 1) that after a few months it would delete your saves, so had to send it back and wait for like 2 months for a replacement.

Xbox 360 had multiple failures, including the beautiful Gears of War 3 special edition. Only 1 (I think) time was the infamous RROD. The others were failures like power supply, disc drive, hard drive, memory, and I think something with either the graphics or hdmi port.

PS3 had multiple failures, too. The most common and frequent was that the fans kept breaking or going into overdrive and sounding like a very powerful air cleaner. I had at least 1 YLOD too.

Sad thing is, I've always treated my stuff like it's a boy in a bubble, and kept everything clean with plenty of space and would never leave the system running when not in use etc
That generation was rough for me.

 

[bellome]

My D1 60GB PS3 got the YLOD during the opening cutscene of Skyrim