Just how many hours do you put into gaming a day on average? I find this hard to believe.
Shit do you stamp on Yr playstations when you die in a game
not at all.
ALL the ps1's died because of disc read errors. Still salty about the last couple because by then I discovered what a beautiful thing the Gameshark Pro was and those last ones dropped the Parallel I/O port that allowed me to use it.
The first PS2's were both disc read error chumps. I was ready to swear off the playstation brand
then, but too much stuff started coming out that I wanted that was ONLY on PS2. 3rd one was my first pre-modchipped console... but it too was having disc read errors like the others. The seller was a good enough guy to take it back to inspect and repair it... and just before it was due to be packed up and sent back, the disc drive
shattered. As in, it was shaking out in pieces from the console. He elected to eat the cost, find a replacement system, transfer the chip, and do a bunch of extra reinforcing and re-capping the console as a measure of paranoia.
That PS2 still works... and is basically the most reliable anything I've had with a Sony badge since. Not even hyperbole there.
My first five PS3's were all the CECH(A/B) units, because I wanted/needed the full BC. I especially miss it now, because with Cobra enabled CFW, it could play backup PS1/2 games off disc like legit games, which greatly offset the need for extra storage space on the console. I only bought the slim I do have now, because... I wouldn't really get anything for my existing library of retail games, and didn't have a clean way of playing BluRay movies elsewhere. Yet even with the same (c)FW, it still feels like I lost something. but after the first few, it's not like I trust this thing to last.
Meanwhile, the only Xbox 360 I had suffer a red ring wasn't even the console itself.... but due to the hard drive it came with failing.
If I booted up the console without it, it actually worked still. But Best Buy treated the whole thing as a set, and thus qualified for replacement. By then the price dropped enough I was able to get an Elite model, that still works to this day. And I somehow received another like era white model that I was able to successfully revive.
I never had an Original Xbox in new condition. Literally all of the units I've received were sold as
for parts and the only two that actually failed were actually kind of my fault for not knowing better for the repair process. So the other four are operable, and I've since been able to successfully TSOP the two eligible models I have left on hand.
Sourcing Microsoft console parts, or even Nintendo console parts, is also orders of magnitude easier than it has been to source parts for fixing a PlayStation of any era. That matters more than one would think.
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