Topic: A problem that must be addressed.

[PIAC]

have you never ever had anything else break down? ever had to pay for car repairs? ever had to get someone to fix a tv? fridge? washing machine? so your gamecube has broken and it was out of warrenty, big deal, nintendo arn't infallable, their products, despite being high quality, ARE subject to fault. get the damn thing fixed and stop whining.

[The Omen]

I've never had a problem with errors or freezing.  I think the percentage is below 1 of GC s malfunctioning, and so far, this thread proves it.

[Mario]

100% of my Nintendo GameCubes still work flawlessly.

Wait, why am i replying to this topic. Oops i just did. Damn i wish you could post pics in this forum, a lame joke just went to waste.

[KDR_11k]

Complaining about repair price vs. new price? Well, accept it. We live in the World of Waste (TM), only the most expensive things are even worth repairing, everything else just gets thrown away and replaced. "Screw the environment!"

[Shift Key]

I've had no problems with my Cube. I took out a 12-month warranty from EB at launch for AU$20, touch wood, and fortunately there are no problems, despite the sometime brutal treatment it has been given.

And 1% is a huge number when considering the number of consoles that have been sold. I'd say it would be about 0.1% and that's conservative. Unfortunately the vocal minority seem to over-emphasise their problems. And Nintendo is not around to exploit people.

As for the MP "game bug," I think that was in the NTSC version and fixed for the PAL version. *insert sigh of relief*

[oohhboy]

Wasn't MP bug related to a bad batch of GCs numbering around a couple thousand where the PPC chip had some knid of flaw that was fixed for the next batch? Never the less I don't see what all the holla is about. Nintendo has always made quality produces. Hell, My NES is still working in prefect order and that has been around for 10+ years.

[thecubedcanuck]

got my cube at launch, and to this day it has NEVER frozen up even once. Knock on wood  

[Shift Key]

oohhboy: I'm not sure. All I can recall is that a batch of games (this could be about 100-10000) which crashed at the same point in the game. It was isolated and fixed to my knowledge.

[Bloodworth]

Alright alright.  This thing is done.  We have two people complaining about their GC breaking and a billion others saying that theirs hasn't.  In any case, as was said, this certainly isn't some intentional bug in the hardware to get people to buy another system.  Things break.  One of the reasons Nintendo was reluctant to move into disc-based media was because the drives are more likely to wear down and break.