The only console that ever broke for me was a Dreamcast, but it lasted long enough. I would expect most people here to have problems because you guys put so many hours on the systems. I only buy one console(just a psx2, had an xbox for 2 weeks) and probably buy less than 10 games per generation. If i put the time some of you guys do into games, i'd surely buy a service plan.
PSTwo=Piece of trash >:(
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No, same here.MetatronM said:
We have fucking hammered them in the office and they still all work. We have a 10000 series Jap launch unit which even survived a botched gen one modchip install. We have TEST stations - they all work - they all still totally work. The Japanese unit even takes UK power without exploding.
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Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
Can't say I agree w/ the smoking thing. My PS2 catches smoke daily. Then again, I only need the lense to kick in when I boot. 
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Actually, unless you have some 'crazy' statistic to show what you are claiming to be true, your account is just about as irelevant as mine (and I have never had any problems with PS2)
my old ps1 broke, then the replacement I got fucked up and overheated from maybe 5 hours of play one day, but it didn't get ruined somehow since it still works today and hasn't screwed up since then, and that was like 4 years ago. same with my n64. my snes still works, sort of, but some of the games I have fuck up like old nes games do (i.e. put them in and it won't read them) but that seems to be more of a problem with specific games than the snes. and I wound up having to get the el cheapo genesis 3 that sucks, but at least it reads my genesis games. and my original dreamcast fucked up after about 2-3 years of almost constant play (ok so it wasn't on all the time for 3 years in a row obviously, but i was playing it a lot) but the replacement i bought then (right around when sega was price dropping them down to like $80) has worked perfectly. no problems with the current systems at all.
I dunno, I was playing Winning Eleven 6 (import of course) with a bunch of my buddies back in res and some guy tripped over the cords (I only own one WaveBird sadly), bringing my GameCube crashing down from about 3 or 4 feet.Phoenix said:
The fall managed to take a chip out of the bottom right hand corner of it, yet the game continued to play. That was a year ago and I've never had problems with it.
Doubtful. If failure rates were anywhere near as high as implied, you'd see a major news story on it. I'd bet dollars to donuts that PS2 failure rates are right in line with Xbox and GC failure rates, just that there are 5 times as many PS2 owners as Xbox or GC owners, so there will be a lot more complaints. Sony's sold 75M PS2s. A 2% failure rate is still 1.5M users. Basically, a 2% failure rate is still 10% of the userbase of the GC or Xbox. You'd know if it was bad, b/c it would probably be grounds for a recall or some class action lawsuit. Sony hardware failures are way blown out of proportion, but that won't change until they lose their lead. If the PS3 only earns 20% of the market next-gen, you're gonna find that Sony's quality has "suddenly improved", but only b/c fewer people have one. PEACE.snapty00 said:
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Got the new one this morning. I left the console playing LOTR while working and after that I've played like two good hours of GTA:SA without a problem. I've noticed that the console gets pretty hot in minutes, but this is normal so I won't bitch about it. I'll do some stress tests playing DVD9s but looks like the previous console was one of the lemons. So far the new works OK.