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Re: Poll: Have You Ever Had Problems With Nintendo Hardware?

Roto13

@BlueOcean The failure rate of the 360 cannot be overstated. The heatsink design flaw meant you were almost definitely going to end up with a brick if you played a lot of games on it. The only Nintendo problem that's that likely to happen is the Joycon thing, and at least that doesn't leave the Switch completely unplayable.

Re: Poll: Have You Ever Had Problems With Nintendo Hardware?

Roto13

NES: Typical read errors for games
SNES: Read errors for games
N64: Control sticks came lose
GameCube: Control sticks came loose
Wii: Couldn't properly read Smash Bros.. (At least Nintendo recognized this problem and fixed it for free.)
Switch: Joycon stick got the common Joycon stick problem, Pro controller stick stopped registering full inputs in one direction

Game Boy Advance SP: Randomly restarts. This is an old used one I bought in Akihabara, though.
DS Lite: Top screen died, shoulder buttons stopped responding correctly
DSi: Shoulder buttons stopped responding correctly
3DS: Circle pad fell off
3DS XL: Came with a yellowed top screen that Nintendo refused to fix