My PSX died yesterday, and my other one skips on FMV and music, and locks up (even when played on its' side or upside down). I am thoroughly disgusted with the PSX durability. I have no reason to believe the PSX2 was better made, given Sony's reliability on all their other electronics products.
So here's how it pertains to Sega. I've been reading about DC failure rates being high on other message boards, and I see a LOT of auctions for dead units on ebay. So how can one prolong the life of one's DC? Is the Dreamcast as crappily made as the PSX? The failure rate seems about the same. Even though the Saturn was a very well constructed console, with Sega exiting the hardware biz, our choices in the future are Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. Which will be the one that produces a console I don't have to replace in 3 years?
My original SNES (bought on launch day) still works flawlessly, and that thing has been mistreated more than anything I've ever owned. (Took it to college with me, in a house of three smokers/heavy beer drinkers.) Now if Nintendo can just bring back the third party support they blew...
So here's how it pertains to Sega. I've been reading about DC failure rates being high on other message boards, and I see a LOT of auctions for dead units on ebay. So how can one prolong the life of one's DC? Is the Dreamcast as crappily made as the PSX? The failure rate seems about the same. Even though the Saturn was a very well constructed console, with Sega exiting the hardware biz, our choices in the future are Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. Which will be the one that produces a console I don't have to replace in 3 years?
My original SNES (bought on launch day) still works flawlessly, and that thing has been mistreated more than anything I've ever owned. (Took it to college with me, in a house of three smokers/heavy beer drinkers.) Now if Nintendo can just bring back the third party support they blew...