Why was console build quality last gen such absolute garbage?

Why was console build quality last gen such absolute garbage?
How many units had these things happen to them? Consoles didn't used to break after just fucking using them for a while.

It all worked out in the end.

I never bought a console post-2005. Are all the newest consoles hardware garbage too?

Because it is in capitalist's interests to artificially shorten the lifespan of their products to encourage unsustainable continuous growth and consumerism.

Socialism 4 lyfe

Thank god that Nintendium was still in production for the wii. DA lite however, that hinge was a joke.

What do you mean user, it's clearly the jews and feminists that are actively plotting to destroy videogames.

Oh you poor misled soul, blind to the irish plot to destory us all.

Consumers have low standards.

All this reaching….
All of this shit goes out of the window when you realize that women were all clamoring for that Kylo dick despite him being a "bad guy".

When you go out into the world and you actually talk to people, like real living people, you'll realize how full of insecure beta-male bullshit the stuff in that picture really is full of.


Cheap manufacturing (which is nothing really new) but most of all the uptick in complexity and the addition of moving parts (the cd drives. the hard drives).
The biggest problem won't really be maintaining these systems as spare parts will be around for a long while still and unlike the old consoles we won't have to completely go back and re-engineer them as people have been repairing them during the console's own lifetime.
The tools and knowledge are all out there.

The biggest problem is in having to eventually emulate the network functionalities that these consoles had.

True answer: thermal paste.

New EU guidelines forbid the use of the usual toxic but highly effective shit (lead is bad) that was used. Ofcourse manufacturers had years to prepare for this but in typical fashion everything had to be (re) invented in the last month. Yes even after the EU gave the industry an extension.

Xbox consoles were not the only electronic devices that suffered overheating issues back then.

wow a Heistat aka Youtube Shillery is in it

Here's another (You)

I had two 360's fail on my last gen. First one was under the extended warranty that MS was forced to honor in lieu of a class action lawsuit. The other time my cousin bought me an Elite because he wanted to play Halo online with me.

My cousin, for his part, bought SIX Xbox 360's. Four of them failed on him, and two of them he bought because of "upgrades". He's actually impressed that his Xbox One hasn't shit itself yet, but has already bought an Xbox One S and plans to get a Scorpio when it comes out.

This is the kind of shit that comes to mind for me whenever some faggot console pleb tries to winge and cry about how "PCs are so much more expensive".

Fuck you niggers, at least I don't have to shell out another $350 if my RAM fries, and unlike consoles, I can just pop it open without any tools and give a good cleaning at least once a year. Most people NEVER open and clean their consoles because they're either too stupid or because it's such a pain in the ass BY DESIGN to open it up. They just run it until it chokes to death on dust and pet hair.

The Irish are fucking animals, all of them.

Both the Yellow Light of Death and the Red Ring of Death were caused by overheating the majority of the time. Sony and Microsoft, in their quest to jam supercomputer processors into as small a space as possible, ended up with piss-poor thermal design.

Why didn't this happen with 6th gen consoles you ask? Because this was before Sony and Microsoft got into an arms race over the same PowerPC-based thermal monsters. PPC is a horribly overrated architecture, people only think its good because its "different" from x86 which is a shitty reason because x86 kicks its ass at everything, even back then old Macbook G3s could hardly compete with Pentium 3s at best.

And now look at where we are today
-x86_64 is currently the most powerful architecture and every Supercomputer and console besides the WiiU uses it
-Nintendo was able to make substantially more profit on the Wii than Microsoft and Sony on the PS3 and 360 because even if you ignore sales the Wii costs next to nothing to manufacture do to its weak hardware but it also walked out with the least amount of design issues (besides its input method but thats superfluous)
-PowerPC is fucking dead

Lesson Learned kids

Not quite the thermal paste thing, but that caused many of them to burn out, sure. The bulk of red ring incidents were due to the lead-free solder they were forced to use.

Chinese factory workers.

Moving parts like optical and harddisk drives. The sturdiest consoles to date were the all ROM and flash based consoles.

That would only explain a few bad batches, not entire bad generations

Yes they did, youngster. Notable examples: drive belt on the Model 1 Sega CD; laser on the PS1; capacitors on the PC/Turbo Duo

I had the Player 1 Controller port on my Genesis break. Both the screens on my GB and GG broke - and I treated them like gold since my family were poorfags when I was growing up and I wouldn't be able to get another one. Nintendo had that infamous problem with connectivity in the cartridge slot, and it was almost a mini-game in itself just to get your games to play.

My Master System is still going fucking great though.

I remember my Genesis controller ports no longer working at one point after it sat cold for a while. My father is a network engineer and regularly works with tons of computers and digital parts. As it turned out, the solder joints had gotten cold and lost their contact, so all I had to do was take a hot soldering iron to the joints where the controller port connected to the board. Voila, good as new.


This is pretty much right. Nintendo has a reputation for creating really sturdy products that stand the test of time incredibly well. They regularly over-design their systems for the worst case scenarios; a closed DS is designed to continue working after a fall from a person's shirt or jacket pocket to the ground, a design choice that pissed off the design team.

Why would it piss off the design team?

PS2 had the same problem, I know this because I worked at a game store and holy shit did we get a lot of returns.

Faulty optical disc laser
#ThisIs4ThePlayers :^)

Because the hardware was actually decent when it didn't kill itself, unlike now.
it still kills itself though

Because making something small yet sturdy means that you have to make concessions on CPU power, battery life, and basically everything else.

Certainly nice that much of the PS2's library is still in the range of "reasonable," if not downright fucking cheap, and beyond that, a fat PS2 can use a modded hard drive and play games digitally.

So wait, Nixon and Reagan were teamed up with Carter and Clinton to subvert American values? Was there some kind of argument as to how to subvert these values or what?
what layer of irony is that image on?

Snes consoles would fad pretty hard, and power port in the back was prone to breaking off and leaving just prongs. Also the plug in adapters were also prone to breaking.

Console Repair " expert" here.

Summary.

Microsoft was cheap. Every single fucking problem with the system could have been prevented if they didn't want to jew the consumer.

Xbox 360.
This isn't an MRI machine. You can have metal parts niggers.


Xbox 360 Slim.

Sony was lazy and chose asthethics over design - compare the PS2 to the PS3.

PS2.
Magic gate was shit. Let's get that off our chests right fucking now.
If sony wanted to dominate the gaming market again, they could release the PS2^2.
A PS2, that runs digital games, disc games and uses a USB port as the memory card 1 slot and PS3 controllers/Move controllers for lightgun games.

But that makes too much sense for the faggots now running Sony, so moving on.

PS3.
Earliest models.
=GIANT FUCKING FAN WITH THE SMALLEST VENTS EVER=
Holy fuck Sony. Make my life harder.

Later Models.

Even Later models of the PS3.

I haven't had a chance to crack open a PS4 yet since everyone's is still under warranty but when they start to run out, I can't fucking wait..

-t. nintendo fan

no, nintendo products apart from maybe their handhelds and the n64 are built like shit. I work in a classic game store and I spend most of my time fixing broken nintendo shit. The only other thing that doesn't work as often is PS2's and PS1's, but only because we get so many more of them.

The only parts that broke on the NES was that damn 72 pin connector, which is easily repaired now by replacing it with a tight connector that doesn't require the cart be pushed down, and adding plastic shunts to the tray to prevent some moron pushing it down.

The SNES's only failure point is the power connector, because people are fucking toddlers and think they can just jerk cables out.

The RF connector pins broke into older TV sets with the NES. The same problem occured with the SNES, but only with heavily used systems.

Fixing my NES ( and the assbeating I got for opening it ) is what inspired me to get into tinkering with computers and consoles after all.

As for the N64, the controller ports could bend or become jammed and , on the rare occasional some fucker being too rough with the rumble packs, but it could take a building.

The Wii.. That thing was built for survival, as long as you didn't live in an dry area or an
earthquake area.

It's overheating issue was completely ignorable if you used the base. For those that didn't… It had the same risk of fire as the PS2 slim, ie: extremely fucking rare.

It also overheated if you modded the system but that's neither here nor there.


Half of Nintendo's products are designed with children in mind, so they can take a beating.

The ones that weren't, The DS/3DS/WiiU all have retarded issues that make you wonder what the fuck was wrong with Nintendo this gen.

But let's be real. If you make something like the WiiU fragile, then you can make a killing off of replacement controllers- especially with clumsy children.

I never get a chance to post this anymore.

I keep wishing they'd have made a PS2P that could play PS2 on the go and inevitably be ridiculously easy to make and add CFW for so you could play PS2 games beyond just the ones they deemed fit for rerelease, the way you can readily dump eboots of most PS1 games onto a CFW PSP and play them that way.

This was taken last July at the local retro place. Nothing but broken 360s and the occasional OG Xbox and PS3 lining the bottom of this one wall, because the owner ran out of room in the back for storing broken shit and wanted to keep that space for stuff that worked. (after looking at the pic again there's a 360E in there, dafuq)

I picked up an elite this year with the jasper motherboard for $10 (the place selling it thought the drive was broken but it was just a simple belt replacement) and I'm still paranoid it's going to self-destruct somehow.

literally the most unfunniest forced meme of all of Holla Forums's tiny roster of fledgling memes

trump is also a potato nigger

Holla Forums didn't even come up with it (I think Holla Forums did some years ago as a joke), so it's even more pathetic.

Hes Scottish and German, not Irish.

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A sack of potatoes have been slung through the window of your hovel.

To prove your point: I just pulled my N64 out of storage last week and spent several hours playing some old games without any issues.