Current Events > Nintendo usually makes their consoles insanely durable

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But what the fuck was going on with the hinges on the DS. Everyone I knew who had a DS had broken hinges after a while.

I've had multiple DSes and literally never had the hinges break. Never knew anybody who did, either.

What are you doing with your DS?

Do you mean the little hinge cracks on the DS Lite? Those were very common, but not important. The main durability issue DS had was the shoulder buttons

I mean sometimes these things have faults even the original NES could eventually not read carts correctly which lead to everyone mistakenly blowing into the system and fucking it up worse

I wonder if the GameCube has ever become a murder weapon.

what about controller drift

I think that was really just the SNES, Gameboy, and N64.

The nes might "work" but even when they were new I found myself having to stick books inside the console to get games to play. All their other systems had problems although tbf optical disks had problems everywhere.

Was the DS hinges breaking actually a big problem? I've literally never had this issue, and can't even really imagine such a thing happening, based on how long/how often I've used various DSes, from OG to Lite.

I had a small crack on my DS's hinge but to call it "broken" would be a huge stretch

Has that really been true since the gamecube? When the wii came out I remember stories about it scratching discs if bumped, the wii u had a bunch of hardware failure issues, and the switch has issues with wi fi and its sticks breaking

MarcyWarcy posted...

Has that really been true since the gamecube? When the wii came out I remember stories about it scratching discs if bumped, the wii u had a bunch of hardware failure issues, and the switch has issues with wi fi and its sticks breaking

To be fair, outside of the Wii/scratching discs, most of what you're describing are software issues, not hardware issues. When people talk about Nintendo products being "durable," they mean physically. Nintendo products can usually survive things like falls better than anything else.

Sonic_Cannon posted...

Do you mean the little hinge cracks on the DS Lite? Those were very common, but not important. The main durability issue DS had was the shoulder buttons

The cracks were important because they made it so that the hinge was loose and the screen flopped about and wouldnt sit at an angle only 180 degrees. They would crack sometimes even when you were gentle with it every time

Kloe_Rinz posted...

The cracks were important because they made it so that the hinge was loose and the screen flopped about and wouldnt sit at an angle only 180 degrees

That doesn't sound like a crack, it sounds like an outright break.

I'm actually kinda baffled, I did not even know this was a thing. I've never had this issue, and never knew anybody who did. Apparently, the common user is more rough with their stuff than I ever imagined.