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Hit 500 hours on my original Xbox last night and it still runs like a tank
My 2002 Xbox has over 500 hours logged on Halo 2 alone, but modern consoles I've bought in the last 5 years have died on me twice - does older hardware actually hold up better, or am I just lucky with this one unit?
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susan_adams7d ago
Dude my old GameCube has been through three moves and a coffee spill and it still boots up like day one. Meanwhile my launch PS5 started making this scary grinding noise after like 200 hours of use, I had to send it in for repairs. There's something about that early 2000s build quality that just feels different, like they made stuff to last back then. My buddy's 360 red ringed on him three times but his original Xbox from 2001 is still alive and kicking in his garage. It's wild how we traded reliability for fancier graphics and faster load times.
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foster.tessa7d ago
Aw man, come on. You're cherry picking the good examples. My GameCube disc drive gave out after five years and I had to hold the console at a 45 degree angle to get it to read anything. And everyone forgets how many Dreamcasts and original Xboxes just randomly died on people. Those early 2000s consoles had cheap capacitors and overheating issues just like anything else, we just don't talk about it as much now.
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