Yeah. You can drop a house on most of these older consoles and they wouldn't give a damn.
I've got an NES and SNES I got from my aunt that I played with as a kid, and they still work great. It's funny how a 30+ year old machine keeps kicking while my brand new Xbox 360 back in 2006 broke for no apparent reason.
Yeah. You can drop a house on most of these older consoles and they wouldn't give a damn.
I've got an NES and SNES I got from my aunt that I played with as a kid, and they still work great. It's funny how a 30+ year old machine keeps kicking while my brand new Xbox 360 back in 2006 broke for no apparent reason.
That has a lot to do with the quality standards that the companies set forth. Nintendo has been fairly strict about which companies are allowed to manufacture their consoles, even if it means that they hit release dates with nowhere near enough consoles (and they don't seem keen on trying to help manufacturers meet their standards, either, so they tend to have tons of shortages). Microsoft, meanwhile, was willing to license damn near anyone to fulfill demand for their consoles, and it's meant that the first production run of their consoles have all involved an awful lot of defective products because of a lack of quality control.
Although if you want to play these games, they re-release these things for every console generation, even if only via virtual console.
Also they predate lead-free solder and were more solid-state. An NES has practically no moving parts, and those that do are either button switches or simple spingloaded hinges and such that the user actuates at most once per session. A PS1 has two moving parts outside the buttons and spring hinges; the motor spinning the CD and the motor and worm driving the laser carriage. An xBox 360 has lead-free solder on weaker BGA connections, fans, a moving disk tray on top of the spindle and carriage, a hard drive (which is a whole bundle of potential failures sealed in a little package), plus plenty of other complex features that individually may not be more prone to breaking but add up to skyrocket the number of potential failures. More complexity begets less reliability.
On tangent, I gave my dad my PS1 after I got my PS2 because he said he'd like to play it (he'd never liked playing it when I was younger...) and my PS2 could play all the PS1 games. He never hooked it up and, after a couple weeks, threw it in the garbage. I miss it, but at least that PS2 soldiers on...
just had to ask. back when my nes was retired/replaced by a snes mid 90s im pretty sure one of my sisters droped a penny or something in there and kaput, she tormented me no more. what with its hours of mind numbing fun that couldn't be beat. really, i couldn't beat a single game
