Get your Wii-Mote off the table

[A Black Falcon]

Blech, I hated the original GBA. No, thatr's not entirely true, although I DID spring instantly at the SP when it launched. Maybe it's because I like to play in the dark.

I play with the lights on... (for the GBA, you do need one close to it, but bedside table lights or a lamp near a chair usually works fine, once you find a good angle...) :)

I do remember thinking that it was cool that Game Gears could light up a room while my GB was useless in the dark (I didn't get a screen light until after I got a GBC...), but still, while there are places where it's definitely useful, it's not SO useful that I think it's worth the extra $30 to $40 (either in summer '03 when I got my new GBA for $60 when SPs were $100 or now when it's used ones at $20 vs. $50/$60 SPs).

Yeah, my Cube DRE'd itself to death too. I replaced it, but I gave it to my dad to use strictly for a GBP, since he likes the games but can't quite see them well on the small screen.

I think it's more common in launch cubes than later ones... that'd probably explain mine, anyway...

Yunno what I always found weird? Sony products have a proven worse track record than Nintendo for hardware durability, but my PS2 has been exposed to the same conditions that have deteriorated and ruined two previous GameCubes and I've never had a problem. It's not a difference in usage either, mind you, the game I've played probably 2nd most of all this gen (FFX, 1st being Melee) is on PS2. I always thought I'd have to rebuy a PS2 way before my Cube would crap out. Who knew? Certainly gave me a new perspective on not so much Sony as Nintendo. The Wii had better last me longer than Cubes 1 & 2 did!

The original Game Boy is probably the most durable console ever... that thing is so nearly indestructible... GBC and GBA aren't even close to that level (as shown by how I have both a broken GBC and a broken GBA, but both of my original GBs work perfectly), and neither are the SP and DS with their breakable hinges (a significant flaw, potentially, as that "DS cracking" thing showed) and "fail to recharge the battery often enough and it can hurt that battery's maximum possible life" rechargable batteries...

Other than those two though the only console that broke on me was one of my N64's, and it did it in like less than a year of my buying it I think... and maybe it was just dirty, I don't know. I lost it a few years ago, somehow, so I can't go check (why it was deleting the save data off of a few oncart save games [SSB] and wouldn't recognize the saves of oncart save titles).

Of course, before last summer all I had were the GB/C/A, the two N64s, and my GC, so that's a small sample... but the SNES, PSone, Genesis, and Sega CD I got since that point all work fine. ... though the Sega CD did come with a second, pre-broken Genesis... darn things have bad durability compared to Nintendo platforms...

As for your PS2, that's probably just luck. Those things are notorious for failing...