Has Anyone's Nintendo System Ever Broken Down?

One of my NESs broke. Luckily, I had a cousin who no longer wanted his, so I got that off him for free. Now I have one functioning NES, and one for parts, in case the other goes down, as well.

Other than that, I've never had the slightest problem with any Nintendo hardware product.

Nope. Only problem I've ever had was with the original NES and the catridge pins. Oh the days of blowing into the NES and on the catridges so the game would start up.

i've had a game boy since '89 that still works as good as the day i got it

+ SNES, N64, gamecube & DS phat that still works a-ok, had most of them since lauch as well

cant say the same about the 3 playstations and 2 PS2's ive gone through

My GBA (old style) down button broke, but that was because I probably abused it. I then used my brother's, because he didn't play games much, so it was okay. Of course, now I don't need it because I have a DS. Consoles are the only ones that are bad if they break down after you get a new one because they are less likely to be backward compatible.

My N64 broke last year, but I think that was my family's fault

Never had a Nintendo Console/Handheld break down on me. I messed up a lot of my controllers though.linkhero1

i only ever smashed 1 controller for the N64 (thatwas 3rd party) by throwing it off the wall. my official 1s seemed to survive it, but i coulda just threw the 3rd 1 a bit harder than usual :oops:

About a month and a half ago,my Wii broke because of corrupted system memory,and I was unable to play any games on it.I sent it to Nintendo,then about two days after I got it back,it broke down again.It just kept freezing,but I could get it to play a game every once in a while.I sent it to Nintendo to be fixed(again) earlier this week.

My NES did after a good while, like 6 years. I abused it to keep it going though until the SNES came out by blowing on it, actually worsening the problem by oxidizing the connectors even more.

But other than that no.

[QUOTE="linkhero1"]Never had a Nintendo Console/Handheld break down on me. I messed up a lot of my controllers though.dreamachine

i only ever smashed 1 controller for the N64 (thatwas 3rd party) by throwing it off the wall. my official 1s seemed to survive it, but i coulda just threw the 3rd 1 a bit harder than usual :oops:

My NES broke. I've had my 360 for over a year and nothing's happened, I'm not really too worried about it.Conanfan1

lol @ your sig.

Yeah - my GBA broke after a long time, and my N64 got a short circuit, or caused one or something.

Don't worry about the 360 - everyone says that it's not reliable - it is, you just gotta keep it cooled. Which really is not all that hard or expensive.

My Gamecube did, but that was my brother's fault. He pretty much smashed it every time I beat him in Mario Party.

My N64 went through rough beatings as well, but it never broke down :P

But my goodness Nintendo, what the **** is wrong with the controller?!

My SNES was returned to me from my cousin's kids broken. The power button was missing.

My Nintendo 64's 1st player controller socket stopped working for some reason.

My Gamecube had audio problems the day I started playing it.

So far my Wii has frozen up on me...once. Not a good sign.

My Gamecube broke down on me last year. Other than that, never. My 360 got the dreaded Ring of Lights too. In fact the only system I've never had broken down on me was a .... Sony system! :shock:

[QUOTE="dreamachine"]

[QUOTE="linkhero1"]Never had a Nintendo Console/Handheld break down on me. I messed up a lot of my controllers though.linkhero1

i only ever smashed 1 controller for the N64 (thatwas 3rd party) by throwing it off the wall. my official 1s seemed to survive it, but i coulda just threw the 3rd 1 a bit harder than usual :oops:

oooh you've just reminded me, 1 of my wii remote & nunchuk just work together, the other pair's fine, but it makes 2 player nearly impossible :(

My Gamecube did, but that was my brother's fault. He pretty much smashed it every time I beat him in Mario Party.

My N64 went through rough beatings as well, but it never broke down :P

But my goodness Nintendo, what the **** is wrong with the controller?!

Eponique

Well MS probably just contracts the lowest bidder to make the hardware for them. They designed an alright hardware package but really dropped the ball on the actual system design. Poor cooling frys the system and that power brick is just retarded. Nintendo always takes care to make a reliable tough system.... but they've never made anything on the cutting edge of technology either. And the Wii is so ancient and weak it's a joke. Probably could even make it a portable right now.

[QUOTE="linkhero1"][QUOTE="dreamachine"]

[QUOTE="linkhero1"]Never had a Nintendo Console/Handheld break down on me. I messed up a lot of my controllers though.dreamachine

i only ever smashed 1 controller for the N64 (thatwas 3rd party) by throwing it off the wall. my official 1s seemed to survive it, but i coulda just threw the 3rd 1 a bit harder than usual :oops:

oooh you've just reminded me, 1 of my wii remote & nunchuk just work together, the other pair's fine, but it makes 2 player nearly impossible :(

Well MS probably just contracts the lowest bidder to make the hardware for them. They designed an alright hardware package but really dropped the ball on the actual system design. Poor cooling frys the system and that power brick is just retarded. Nintendo always takes care to make a reliable tough system.... but they've never made anything on the cutting edge of technology either. And the Wii is so ancient and weak it's a joke. Probably could even make it a portable right now.

Lazy_Boy88

My nes quit working after about 7 years, thats what made me buy an snes

my SNES fell off a dresser, and had a big chunk of plastic missing, but still ran like a champ

my sega genesis slowly stopped reading games, up to the day i found out what was inside

my sega saturn and ps1 worked flawlessly up until the day i sold em for dreamcast/ps2 money

my n64 worked up to the day i sold it for a ps2

my first ps2 died after about 3 years, my second got kicked off a table after about 2 and died, sold my 3rd after getting a ps3

my first psp died in a tragic firmware incident, the umd drive on my second is dead

my 360 has run problem free for 1 year, 4 months, my wii has run problem free for 7 months, my DS problem free for 7 months, and my dreamcast problem free for over 7 years now.

all in all, sega ftw

I haven't had anything majorly go wrong with my N64, NGC and Wii.

The Wii has freezed on the Wii Channel a couple of times, that's it.

My SNES was returned to me from my cousin's kids broken. The power button was missing.

My Nintendo 64's 1st player controller socket stopped working for some reason.

My Gamecube had audio problems the day I started playing it.

So far my Wii has frozen up on me...once. Not a good sign.

majadamus

:lol: I'm sorry not that its really funny, but that seriously sucks... perhaps you're cursed or something when it comes to Nintendos products :P ...