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Originally posted by Archer_dude:
well the Game Cube is less complicated then them new game systems, but iff so, then wouldn't that mean that even older consoles like NES or supernintendo would last even longer? If you want to know I've had a Game Cube for about 4-6 years and it still works perfectly. AND NINTENDO RULES!!! the 360 has oblivion and i give credit for that game but you can't top Mario or Link man...

ANd Yoshi!

Good gosh. If your going to destroy nice game systems might as well make software that when you lose the game the game system blows up! RJF

I thought all game systems where only designed to last one year. Then the manufacturers build new systems and games uncompatable with the old system. So to play new games you need to buy the new system. Not very reliable.

My kids and I still play my old Atari 2600 with the mega-sized pixelated graphics, but the joysticks are getting a little iffy after thirty years.

Ive Had a Gamecube 4 a long time and ive had it go thru extreme conditions. it now sits in my closet crushed by board games, suitcases, and clothes. it still works fine. had it since the GC came out.

I remember something related to this, but it was a long time ago. I think it was in an issue of Nintendo Power, and it was either a GameBoy Color or a GameBoy Advance, and they said that it would still work after being dropped off a building, and from being run over by a truck.

I don't remember if it even said what height the building was.

There's a Gameboy that was in Iraq during the Gulf War and got hit by enemy fire. I want to say a mortar.

You can play that still-working Game Boy to this day at Nintendo World in New York.

i have a ps2 that has been snatched off of a 4 ft t.v. stand at least a dozen times by either my 2 year old or my cats running through the house and catching the controller cable and it still works like the day i bought it and i have a game cube that has seen it all and still works

i think that the game cube would be the most durable because my game cube has seen a lot: moving, kicked, dropped, rolled, fallen on, hit, and it still works like a mint or near mint game cube. ps2, however, i've seen one dropped and it didn't work again, but then again that was on a hard floor, but same with the game cube. so, adam and jamie, do you have the ultimate tests to find out which one is more durable??

In my family we've had all the Gameboys, Nintendo DS, Nes, Snes, N64, Gamecube, Wii, PlayStation II, PS3 and Various Pcs.

We've only had to have the PS3 replaced and all the Pc's manged to blow the hardrive one way or other.

All the new systems now have hardrives like Pc's so they're going to burn out one day.

I also just read in Forbes about a guy developing a new memory system that can last for 1000 years so you can take a good guess all the other systems will fail before then.