Nintendo craftsmanship is worth 1000 pictures

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1. My 360 red ringed too. My GameBoy Color, Game Boy Advance, DS phat, DS lite, N64, GameCube, and Wii haven't broken yet. Nintendo probably has a whole building specifically devoted to structual/internal tests. I imagine a line of workers hitting consoles with hammers to make sure they won't break.

2. Heh, the ever famous Red Ring of Death with the XBOX 360. I may not own the console, but know a lot about how much of a pain in the rear it can be for a 360 owner. Courtesy of my friend who experienced the problem one time before. Plus @cmdg: true, they must be hit with hammers and such IN TESTS to prove that Nintendo consoles & portables can probably with stand anything. But tell that to the old blinking red light next to the POWER button on the old NES 1. That always irritated the heck out of me.

3. every time i turn on my 360 i hope it turns on.

4. LOL that picture is classic… and yeah the nes had it's share of troubles too though, the thing is you can get on the internet and get a new 72 pin connector and it works like new, fairly easy to install too.

5. Never had a Nintendo system break on me until the Wii. Don't make em' like they used to.

6. my first snes broke, we lost the RF cable so it was unusable for some time and it got left in the garage for over a year, whit it was in there it fell off a shelf, by the time we had bought a new RF cable, we noticed the snes wouldn't work.

   Also, the reset button on the N64 has stopped working, but that's no biggy, the console is still 100% usable.

7. that is a great picture.

   The big N can make some great quality product, not question!

8. Ahh, red ring of death. I know it too well.

9. Now that you mention it, I should have tried blowing in my 360 the 2 times it RROD on me!

10. Maybe his NES still works…mine stopped years ago.

    Plus my Wii broke broke before my 360 RROD.

11. There are only a couple of 360 games I'm actually interested in that aren't also on PC.. but there are a few i'd like, the red-ring however is what's really been putting me off getting the system… I don't know anyone locally with a 360 who hasn't had to replace or repair it at least once.

12. I may not have an NES, but I do have an N64 that's survived falls onto hard floors, kicking, shaking, and sitting on for months in a non-A/Ced and non-heated room …. with absolutely no big problems. In fact, the only thing wrong is I chipped the first controller port, but it still plugs in fine, so no worries.

13. I took my NES apart and cleaned all of the components with q-tips and windex (following instructions i found online) and it still works like new, without buying any thing

    The reason I dont need virtual console on my Wii, all of my old ones work 🙂

    NES, SNES, N64, GC, Wii, Genesis, PS, PS2

14. My NES has always worked… with a little blowing.
    Seriously.

    My DS Lite suffered a broken hinge but it still works. Passed it on to my son and bought a new DS Lite. It's left shoulder button doesn't work. Not a problem yet with any of the games I have played.

    My Wii has had one problem. It took less than a week to ship off, repair, and receive back. The service blew me away.

    My Colecovision has never had a problem.

15. classic shot. my nes still works as well. i've never had nintendo system break on me, ever! although i probably used a little too much rubbing alcohol and q-tips on the games (when cleaning it improperly as a kid), so i think a few of the games might not play, but that is no fault of their own nor the system.

16. My Gameboy SP broke the first time I dropped it (darn you, school bullies!), but my DS and DS Lite have been holding up pretty nicely. Just one or three noticable things about it, but other than that, they're great. I just got my 360, I hope it doesn't RROD on me considering that every that I know that owns a 360 has had it one time or another.

17. My 360 has RROD on me twice (each within two months!). But each time Microsoft payed for the shipping and repaired it fairly quickly, so I wouldn't consider that a reason not to get one… It's just an annoyance.

    On the other hand, the only Nintendo hardware that has broken on me was my first DS Lite, and only because my daughter sat on it. Oh, and, even though it is split in two parts, it still works! So, Kudos to Nintendo's engineers.

18. A friend tried to convince me to buy a 360. His sales pitch: "They don't break down as badly as other people say. I've owned mine for two and a half years, and only had it repaired by Microsoft 3 times – plus the warranty is awesome!"

    No offense, but having to send my console away once would disappoint me. Three times is madness.

19. C'mon, skeptical, the only bad consequence is that you will live without your 360 for a month! Microsoft even sends in a LIVE card to extend your subscription for that amount, so you don't feel cheated!

    Think about it: right now you are living without your 360 the WHOLE YEAR! What would be so bad about missing a month or two per year instead?

    😉

20. it should be about quality and i expect to bring home a piece of hardware and have at my disposal indefinitely, regardless of how often i use it. sending something back once can be overlooked, but three times like stated above is ridiculous. you can be compensated all you want, but a flawed piece of hardware is still flawed. that's like saying sorry after you run over my foot with a car, regardless of intent my toes are still broken.

21. my 360 red ringed on me within 30 minutes of playing and i sent it back and then the video card melted and then i got this last one and it hasn't done anything..i bought a gameboy sp and i had that thing for a long time until a 300 hundred pound man stepped on it and broke the screen but it still worked just couldn't see half the screen, then my ds lite i had for two years and the top screen came almost completely off and it still turned on and worked for a while then the top screen stopped working but it can still play animal crossing and my dsi works fine….for now

22. You know, I always wondered: Red Ring of Death? Why would such a feature be implemented into the console unless they expected certain parts to fail? Almost as if failure was programmed into it.

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