Nintendo is really beginning to piss me off…
Let me preface this rant by saying that I used to be a pretty avid console gamer before I fell into “Everquest” and then “World of Warcraft”. I don’t play either anymore, but I still don’t game a lot on consoles. I have had the Atari, Sega Genesis, The original Nintendo, Playstation, Game Cube, Xbox, Xbox 360, and now my 3rd Wii, YES 3rd. That’s why I am pissed.
When the Wii was released, I ended up getting rid of the Xbox 360 and moving towards the Wii for a better selection of games for my kids. (now 16 and 7) The Wii was great for a while. 6 months later, I got into a situation where it would stop reading disks. I thought initially that my son was ruining the disks with his poor handling, but I realized it wasn’t that. Brand new disk, old scratched disks, whatever… they wouldn’t play. I called Nintendo and they walked me through some stuff to try. All came up empty, so they replaced it with other console. So a week goes by, no Wii for the kids, no biggie. The new one (or probably refurbed) came in and we were back to the races.
3 months after getting the replacement Wii, the same thing started happening again. This time I was sure it wasn’t my son since he started to learn to take care of his games after the 1st incident since I used that opportunity to make him feel as if he caused the problem by leaving disks out everywhere, etc… It happened on a weekend, just after my wife rented a couple games for them. Instead of saying, “wait until monday and I will call Nintendo again”, I said, “F it” and went out and bought another brand new Wii. All was fine once again.
3 months later, AGAIN… the same freaking problem. Being too lazy to call and go through the hassle of swapping, I bought our 3rd Wii. That was 6 months ago. Guess what…
YEP… AGAIN! I am getting really pissed off and it’s taking ever ounce of my control to type clean words instead of what I am feeling right now. I am going to get a little work done here today, but I hope to get a block of time to call Nintendo today. If I can’t find resolve, I have about 50-60 Wii games I will be selling, so watch out here for that announcement. I will probably sell them direct rather than on ebay. If I leave Wii, PS3 or Xbox 360? I am leaning 360 since I have 4-5 games that I forgot I had when we got rid of the 360 initially.
Damn you Nintendo. Make a good product please. Ok, wait, the Wii is a good product, what I mean is make a dependable product. I have talked to others that say they have had this issue too.
October 23, 2009 - 12:49 pm
Sorry to hear your bad luck … but it is definitely NOT typical. In fact, two seperate recent studies showed that the X360 is least reliable console (perhaps ever>??) with a >50% failure rate, the PS3 ~15-20% and the Wii ~10%. In fact I think I know fewer people who have had Wii issues than those who have NOT had X360 problems …
November 6, 2009 - 9:37 am
I agree, this is very uncommon, I have had all 3 systems (x360, Ps3, Wii) and the Wii & the PS# have booth been very reliable. I did have to get a new Wii because I let my sister and her kids borrow it for a while and it came back so nasty filled with dust I had to ask what did they do (no I didn't make them pay for it, since I had a good job at the time), but I have had my new Wii for over a year now and haven't had a problem. With regular cleaning all but the 360 are doing fine. the 360 red ringed right after the warranty went out.Pissed and no longer working I gave my 360 games to a friend for a 100 after i tore into and tried a few things i have read online on fixes, but none worked so now its in the trash. Heating and cooling is also a big thing. Mine always had 2-3 inches on both right and left sides and 4-5 in front or back. But the 360 runs the hottest i have come to see, then the Ps3 and the Wii runs the coolest of them all. So with proper handling and care normally there are few problems. But for this to happen so many time to one person really sucks. I mean when my 360 red ringed. I was mad enough to go out and buy a steam roller and run it over, if I could have. Hope it all works/worked out for you.
November 6, 2009 - 3:37 pm
I agree, this is very uncommon, I have had all 3 systems (x360, Ps3, Wii) and the Wii & the PS# have booth been very reliable. I did have to get a new Wii because I let my sister and her kids borrow it for a while and it came back so nasty filled with dust I had to ask what did they do (no I didn't make them pay for it, since I had a good job at the time), but I have had my new Wii for over a year now and haven't had a problem. With regular cleaning all but the 360 are doing fine. the 360 red ringed right after the warranty went out.Pissed and no longer working I gave my 360 games to a friend for a 100 after i tore into and tried a few things i have read online on fixes, but none worked so now its in the trash. Heating and cooling is also a big thing. Mine always had 2-3 inches on both right and left sides and 4-5 in front or back. But the 360 runs the hottest i have come to see, then the Ps3 and the Wii runs the coolest of them all. So with proper handling and care normally there are few problems. But for this to happen so many time to one person really sucks. I mean when my 360 red ringed. I was mad enough to go out and buy a steam roller and run it over, if I could have. Hope it all works/worked out for you.