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November 18, 2009 by RawmeatCowboy
Filed Under: Wii, Nintendo in general
The results below come from a CNET UK poll that surveyed 1,128 UK-based console owners (of whom 562 owned Xbox 360s, 473 owned PlayStation 3s and 591 had Wiis, with some owning more than one)...
- 60% of 360 owners had experienced hardware failure
- 16% of PS3 owners had experienced hardware failure
- 6% of Wii owners had experienced hardware failure
Also worth noting, Game Informer did a poll of their U.S. subscribers to find out the same information, and 6.8% of Wii owners had experienced hardware failure.
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And I'm in my own room and she's in our "living room", I guess the smoke does like to creep in. X(
Also, hero of legend, I feel your pain, though, I only had to replace one Wii, it happened when I was staying at my in-laws, who smoke.
@Hero of legend
5th Wii? I do not envy you. But I can not think it is the smoke you mentioned. Maybe the electric cables in your house has some issues., Check it out!
Yeah the Wii is the most unreliable Nintendo system since the NES in my opinion.
i know some people had to open their wii to bend some metal part in order to stop the awful noise. check youtube , it's quite hard to do in reality .
so it's no gamecube/supernintendo/n64 , better than the other two but not perfect
Reall? I only know of 1-2 Wiis that stopped working. Inever had problems with any other system though. NEVER
@internet
Don't really want to open my Wii, but maybe I should. Thanks for the tip though
Are you putting the wii on top of a subwoofer or other electronic equipment?
Get a fan for the room to blow the air around it helps to disapiate the smoke.
My Wii tends to make some loud disc reader noises too. Maybe it's just because its only recently that I've noticed it making the noise at all, but honestly I didn't start to notice it until I got the 4.1 update back in the summer. Everything has been playing fine though. My Wii's only locked up 3 times since getting it at launch in 2006, and it happens so infrequently that it's of no concern (my Gamecube did the exact same thing). One time I was playing Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon and the framerate acted up so badly it made me worried I was about to get a disc read error, but then things "fixed themselves" and I realized "oh wait, it's just the game itself" after I put in Overkill next and it ran just fine (sometimes I can confuse a game's framerate flaws with system flaws).
My launch GameCube however, the lens failed after 6 months or so. I then sent it into Nintendo and got a new one that still works to this day. I have never had problems with other consoles, just Nintendo. Compared to the GameCube, N64, and SNES, the Wii feels the cheapest of any Nintendo console.
*breath*
My launch Wii has worked splendidly since day one so stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
For me it was a year and a half with my launch GameCube. It was out of warranty so my mom just bought me a new one in fall 2003. It worked perfectly, even when I sold it last year.
My Xbox 360 on the other hand, while I've never gotten RROD it's had more issues. Game freezing is not an everyday thing, but it happens frequently enough to where I don't panic about it like I do if it were to happen to another system (now I'm like "oh geez it froze... oh well, I'll turn it off for a few minutes and then I'll just turn it back on"). Xbox Live has randomly disconnected for no reason while I was downloading things before, but I've never had to send it in for anything.
So yeah, my situation goes against statistics.
Other than that, it works perfectly fine. My only problem with my Wii is the 3rd party batteries for my Wiimotes... but duh. they're 3rd party
Call it what you like, it doesn't make it any less true..
I keep all my three consoles in a well ventilated area and an extra fan blowing on them when I play just to be safe and for some reason my Wii first started making a weird noise and then it stopped reading any discs..
I had the lens replaced and it worked fine until recently it started making a similar noise and now it won't read Brawl.
So saying anything BUT Nintendo consoles will fail is both unfair and untrue. The reason the Wii has less of a failure rate is because the tech is a lot older compared to say the 360 or PS3.
I swear, some people on here are so close minded, they don't even get how a large majority of any technology or electronics in general work. Let alone how far it has come.
These same people who hate everything not Nintendo and say it's bad quality yet post on here using Windows XP, Vista, or 7, and talk to their friends on Windows Live Messenger and listen to music on a Zune. People who probably play their Wii on a Sony TV, have a Sony radio in their room and have a Sony brand CD player in their car and probably watch Sony produced movies and shows and listen to music published by Sony Music.
Hmm. I didn't notice the sound until this summer. I am sure it wasn't there before
@BigLord
Great purchase. Have one myself
Doesn't make our experiences any less factual.
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