With Microsoft’s XBOX360 making headlines everywhere with it’s outstanding 33% failure rate, let’s look back at how many Nintendo consoles have died on me for the past decade.

The Nintendo Family computer, the Japanese equivalent of the Nintendo Entertainment system, stopped working around 3 years after I first got it. After extended rounds of playing Megaman and it’s sequels, along with the Streetfighter knockoffs, it simply died of wear and tear.

The Super one fared better

The SNES on the other hand, is a different story. This has to be one of the toughest consoles ever produced. Mine still works, and that’s around 15 years of gaming., we still have Bomberman 2 and some squaresoft rpg’s for it.

The N64

Probably the third toughest games machine from my experience, this is the last of the of the “cartridge based” systems ever to be released. And we all now how tough cartridges can be, unlike cds, that can get scratched easily, N64 cartrdiges, if kept properly would probably still work long after your dead.

How about a cd system?

The GameCube, I bought around the same time I got my PS2, but unlike my PS2, my gamecube does not choose the games it’s going to run, does not sound like an old man gurgling, and doesn’t periodically hang when pushing too much visual detail on the screen.

So is the Wii’s 1% failure rate impressive? Well yes, but that’s how every Nintendo system’s been for the past ten years. With Nintendo, quality is the norm, can’t beat that.