So for this Generation...

Hi everybody, I believe this is the first time I have ever enterd the Wii room on GS :P

But I was wondering who all has had their Wii console fail on them? I believe the Wii is the best console this generation on thesubject of console failure. And for that reason alone makes me respect the Wii console alot. I kinda wish I would have kept mine. But yeah, Have any of you had their Wii fail comletely? Like bicked console or some sort of flashing light that means your time for jumping around is over?

i had my wii over 2 years and been dropped by my little cousins a few times and still works like brandnewelbert_b_23

My Wii works fine. It's been carted around to more places than I'd like, and it's still going strong. It has too at least hold me out until WiiHD is released.

I've stepped on my Wii hundreds of times and my dog even peed on it once...not a single problem came up.

I'm just going to copy/paste what I put in a thread about the Wii's common defects

1. While trying to keep up with demand there were complete runs of consoles that never got the correct heatsink and that means there's many of Wii's out there that don't have the proper cooling and over time will fail.

2. The lens problem with the Wii that made Nintendo come out with the lens cleaner to avoid having to take care of the consoles themselves. It's better for Nintendo to make a profit then for Nintendo to pay you to get the console and then repair the faulty lens.

3. The bearings in the launch Wii's are hit or miss. I know that I had to agree to not get my original Wii back so they could completely dissect it and see why so many fans were failing all around the same time from the launch set

I've had to send it back twice and I've had one repaired and then one new one

Jaysonguy

Mines two years old and works like new

My launch wii's disk drive failed but it's perfect now

Nintendo has failed 2 times for me. Wii Gamecube They just don't seem to have the golden days of the N64 anymore..Fightingfan

my wii fell 6ft and it works fine.BrunoBRS

I'm just curious, what was your Wii doing so high?:lol:

The only problem I had with my Wii was when it stopped reading discs.

Apparently it was from playing SSBB too much. So I told Nintendo and they offered to fix it for free. (I was out of warranty too.)

So yeah now I haven't had a problem at all. :P

failed on expectations or actual hardware failure? 'cause if so, you're in real bad luck, the gamecube's considered the most resistent (tested by G4) and durable console on the past gen. not sure about resistance, but my wii fell 6ft and it works fine, and the hardware failure percentage of the wii is way lower than the other consoles.BrunoBRS

Yeah, the Wii reportedly has a 2% failure rate as compared to 10% for the PS3 and 23% (lolol) for the 360.

[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"]my wii fell 6ft and it works fine.gulfo

I'm just curious, what was your Wii doing so high?:lol:

As Jasonguy noted, there was a series of launch wii's that didn't have the heatsink properly applied, and I was lucky enough to get one. A started getting artifacts and had to send it in to get repaired. It was out of warrenty and Nintendo refused to acknowledge that there was a problem, it oviously was not a manufactureing defect seeing that is lasted 2 years according to them. I was able to complain enough to alkk them down from $90 to $40 if I remember correctly.

I also have a friend who had the exact same problem, also a launch wii.

He also has a second wii, his family now has 3 so they can play moster hunter tri, that had a fan failure, causing it to overheat. That one was under warrenty and was repaired for free.

He also had a disc drive failure after his little brother pulled on a gamecube cord, making it fall onto the concrete floor, but I din't think that one counts.

The disc read error on Brawl, a 2 layer disc, is a fiarly well doccumented error, Nitendo even acknowledges it, and to their credit they still offer to fix the problem no matter the warrenty status.

Got my Wii on launch day still working fine *touchwood* :)

My Wii had some kind of internal memory corruption issue that I had to get fixed 2 years after I got it. Of course my PS3's disc drive died and my 360 has had a red ring of death so I've had problems with all the systems.

Got a launch wii, disc eject button is a little iffy (may take me up to five presses to get the disc), and used to hang on occasion (when I left it on wiiconnect24, which I don't do anymore), but it has no gameplay altering faults.

mine had the lens failure and couldnt read SSBB after awhile, so i sent it and got a free repair, other than that the system is perfect.

Nintendo has failed 2 times for me. Wii Gamecube They just don't seem to have the golden days of the N64 anymore..Fightingfan

Congratulations. You didn't read the original post too closely.

And the GCN was awesome. The Wii isn't so much.

But the GCN is the only console that has broken on me. (that wasn't partially my fault.)

My Wii once froze while i was playing and there was a beeping sound. I just simply unplugged one of the connectors at the back of the Wii and it turned the Wii off. I then plugged it back and everything was back to normal.:)

Ok, I don't want to sound like a fanboy, but the Wii hasn't, well inside atleast, strayed too far from the GC. On the other hand, the PS3 has the cores going on, and well I don't really know what to say about the 360. 23% is pretty high I gotta say. Because the processors inside of the Wii aren't as large or working as hard as the 360 or PS3, less heat is produced. So, unless the disk drive fails, the chances of technical failure is pretty low. However, I would feel safer dropping a Wii rather than a 360/PS3.prsman

That's true and all, but I'm nearly positive that the GCN was the most reliable console last gen as well, which was right up there with the Xbox and PS2 in terms of processing. I just think there's something to be said regarding Nintendo and console durability.

As for my Wii, there was a 2-3 week period where the disc drive was abnormally loud, but I guess it 'fixed' itself. That happened a year ago and it's now two years old. I would be shocked if it didn't last me at least two more (I expect it to outlast my PS3 that I just bought this year).

I've had to send my console to Nintendo HQ for repairs twice, at no cost for either instance.

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]Nintendo has failed 2 times for me. Wii Gamecube They just don't seem to have the golden days of the N64 anymore..BrunoBRS

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]Nintendo has failed 2 times for me. Wii Gamecube They just don't seem to have the golden days of the N64 anymore..MarioFan264

Congratulations. You didn't read the original post too closely.

And the GCN was awesome. The Wii isn't so much.

But the GCN is the only console that has broken on me. (that wasn't partially my fault.)

Nintendo has failed 2 times for me. N64 and Gamecube They are back in full force with the gem that is the Wii.Fightingfan

Other than rare occurances of freezing up, my Wii only has had problems reading scratched Gamecube disks that my gamecube can somehow still read.