Anyone ever have a really bad luck streak with new consoles?

[alexkidd2000]

So Xmas 1988 I get a Sega Master System, my dreams have come true! I hook it up everything works great but if you touch the power connector or bump the system it loses power. Faulty power adapter...

Summer of 1990 I saved enough money, drove down to USA and picked up a Sega Genesis. Get it home and it works great and I still have it. Got lucky on that one.

Next purchase, a new Japanese Game Gear because it was cheaper ordering it from Japan then buying one here for some reason. Big mistake. Almost all the games would get these colored blocks of pixilation and be virtually unplayable. My buddy who bought one from Japan also had the same problem so maybe it was a widespread thing.

Christmas 199? I get a Sega CD! Hook it up. Boots the bios screen wont boot any games. I have to wait a whole week before we go back home from my aunts house to swap it out. You know how much that hurts when you are 15??

I am moved out on my own now, want a Sega Saturn. Buy one at Future Shop (Best Buy) but they are no longer carrying Saturn so its the last one. System is totally screwed, I take it back they say they will track down one from another store. SIX MONTHS LATER they refund my money after a billion phone calls and frustrations.

9/9/99... I drive 5 hours to get a Dreamcast because no stores in my hick town are going to have them. I buy one for my friend and one for me. Tested mine out worked great. Get home give my buddy his and his is broke. ARGHHH!! I give him mine because I am a nice guy and have to wait a month before I can drive that 5 hour trip again to return it. At least the one I recieved in return was perfect and still works awesome.

I seem to be on a decent streak now. Bought an Xbox, DS, PSP and PS3. All have worked great. Maybe Sega secretly hated me haha.

Anyone else have some similar stories?

[Dreamcast]

So Xmas 1988 I get a Sega Master System, my dreams have come true! I hook it up everything works great but if you touch the power connector or bump the system it loses power. Faulty power adapter...

Summer of 1990 I saved enough money, drove down to USA and picked up a Sega Genesis. Get it home and it works great and I still have it. Got lucky on that one.

Next purchase, a new Japanese Game Gear because it was cheaper ordering it from Japan then buying one here for some reason. Big mistake. Almost all the games would get these colored blocks of pixilation and be virtually unplayable. My buddy who bought one from Japan also had the same problem so maybe it was a widespread thing.

Christmas 199? I get a Sega CD! Hook it up. Boots the bios screen wont boot any games. I have to wait a whole week before we go back home from my aunts house to swap it out. You know how much that hurts when you are 15??

I am moved out on my own now, want a Sega Saturn. Buy one at Future Shop (Best Buy) but they are no longer carrying Saturn so its the last one. System is totally screwed, I take it back they say they will track down one from another store. SIX MONTHS LATER they refund my money after a billion phone calls and frustrations.

9/9/99... I drive 5 hours to get a Dreamcast because no stores in my hick town are going to have them. I buy one for my friend and one for me. Tested mine out worked great. Get home give my buddy his and his is broke. ARGHHH!! I give him mine because I am a nice guy and have to wait a month before I can drive that 5 hour trip again to return it. At least the one I recieved in return was perfect and still works awesome.

I seem to be on a decent streak now. Bought an Xbox, DS, PSP and PS3. All have worked great. Maybe Sega secretly hated me haha.

Anyone else have some similar stories?

Dreamcast are known to be unreliable when it comes to reading discs. But when it comes to durability (as in like dropping you dreamcast) Its really strong. But I dont have any stories that involve video games (except i gave away some GBA games) But usually i give gum for free.

EDIT: I remember getting Sonic advance from ebay. And I ended up getting an illegal version (or the first ones ever made) And not only that. When I played the game, Sometimes it would save and sometimes it wouldn't and sometimes it would Delete everything (thank god for action replay). So i told my dad and he contacted the guy who sold it. And he said If i return it he would give me a newer better one. Since I was 11 or 10 at the time I really didn't want return it becuase I loved playing it so much! (so much I stayed up almost 2 days playing it non stop. Going through 3 sets of 2 AA batteries) So it was my fault for not returning it.

[Greg2600]

I usually wait at least one year or more before getting something new. There are more games by then, and the first batch or two of consoles, which have had defects, have been replaced with improved models.

[Chuplayer]

My first 360 worked well for the first year, but the disc drive developed some sort of weird sound. Off it goes to get fixed. Or replaced :| And replaced with a crappier system, it was. Now the disc tray has a multitude of problems. Off it will go to get fixed/replaced when my coffin gets here.

I got a Thompson drive XBOX. It worked fairly well up until the very end, but I got tired of it fucking up and causing disc read errors. I sold it to EB as a working console and got 85 bucks for it.

My first DS had some pixel problems. I swapped it out with a product replacement plan at EB. Never gonna do that again. I got a system that was about ten times worse. I called Nintendo and got them to fix my replacement for me. It's great.

By 2002, my NES was pretty much useless thanks to the worn out pins. I changed the pin connector that year, and it has worked like new ever since.

And in 2001, I had a new copy of Crazy Taxi 2 mysteriously die on me a week or two after getting it. It worked great, and then it just stopped working. It was strange. The disc was clean and scratch-free, but it just stopped working. Weird.

[aaron7]

And in 2001, I had a new copy of Crazy Taxi 2 mysteriously die on me a week or two after getting it. It worked great, and then it just stopped working. It was strange. The disc was clean and scratch-free, but it just stopped working. Weird.

If there are no scratches then it has to be the system. There isn't any way for a CD to fail unless it's scratched or the foil is coming off!

[Chuplayer]

If there are no scratches then it has to be the system. There isn't any way for a CD to fail unless it's scratched or the foil is coming off!

It certainly wasn't the system because it's been working fine for over eight years. The game didn't have any visible problems. It just was stuck at the initial now loading screen.

[diskoboy]

My 360 is the first console that has I have owned that has ever broken down within it's lifespan. Besides that, I've never had a problem with any of my consoles, until my 29 year old Odyssey 2 died last year.

[otaku]

The only new systems I've had problems with were my 360 and my DS the 360 got the red rings after a year of hot loud unstable performance leading up to its death. Its still an annoying piece of shit. My DS and maybe this was from abuse had some areas of its screen that just died they wouldn't register and it occassionally like most of my systems had trouble reading its media but thats no biggie.

Mostly Ive had excellent luck with all the electronics I've owned