Was the PSX the worst-built of the 5th generation consoles?

[Anonymous No.7310398]

There's a huge after market for PSX laser assemblies, many refurbished, because the originals were so failure prone.
Besides the weak leaser, the laser assembly ran on easily-worn/cracked plastic gears.
Saturns consoles seem to have held up better with time, even though the CD cases would Allah Akbar if you so much as breathed on them.
The N64s are cartridge-based, have many fewer moving parts, and have held up great with time.
How did the overall shit build quality of PSX not harm Sony's brand?

[Anonymous No.7310414]

>>7310398
had the better games, who cares

[Anonymous No.7310429]

for the most part these problems didnt really crop up much until long after the PSX had been discontinued

[Anonymous No.7310437]

>>7310429
>for the most part these problems didnt really crop up much until long after the PSX had been discontinued
It almost seems like planned obsolescence.

[Anonymous No.7310442]

Yeah I dumped what small collection I had for it when my last one died completely out of the blue couldn't be bothered to figure it out

[Anonymous No.7310443]

>>7310414
>had the better games, who cares
I agree, but it's striking how poorly the actual hardware has aged, and how little Sony and the PSX's reputation has suffered from it.

[Anonymous No.7310656]

>>7310398
>even though the CD cases would Allah Akbar if you so much as breathed on them
What do you mean? They're just regular jewel cases just like the PSX. The arms on the front break off fairly easily, but these were standard. Too bad Super Jewel Box didn't come out until the CD format was mostly obsolete.

[Anonymous No.7310687]

>>7310398
>the laser assembly ran on easily-worn/cracked plastic gears.
Its a problem with the early models desu.
>The N64s are cartridge-based, have many fewer moving parts, and have held up great with time.
>cartridge holds up better than CD player
That goes without saying. Each N64 game was a lot more expensive than a PS1 game though. Also nintendo took a high profit margin, considering it was priced the same as a PS1 despite the lack of CD player.

The build quality of PS1 was patchy, but unfortunately it was the only good 5th gen console too. Had the Saturn used SGI CPU, Atari Jaguar wasn't released too early, and Nintendo gave an open source documentation for the N64 and a CD drive, the PS1 wouldn't win though, or at least they wouldn't monopolize the market as much.

[Anonymous No.7310731]

>>7310656
>They're just regular jewel cases just like the PSX
The Saturn cases in the US were big, and prone to shattering.

[Anonymous No.7310748]

Same goes for ps2. Sony just didn't care about the quality when they sold like hot cakes.

[Anonymous No.7310757]

as shit the build quality of the PSX was, it was still better than PS2/3/4/5, which is the sad thing.

[Anonymous No.7310831]

>>7310398
>Was the PSX the worst-built of the 5th generation consoles?
No. But it was one of the worst 6th gen.

[Anonymous No.7310845]

zoom zoom

[Anonymous No.7310908]

>>7310757
I've owned each revision of the PS1, PS2 and PS3 (excluding some "silent" revisions with only internal changes) and the slim PS3 (not super slim) is Sony's best built console IMO. Specifically the 25XX model. Even now at ~10 years old, most of the ones you'd pick up secondhand work without any issues.

[Anonymous No.7311476]

>>7310831
/thread

[Anonymous No.7311507]

>>7310414
fpbp

[Anonymous No.7311542]

>>7310398
>best/worst built console
who cares nigga
I'm just trying to play some good games

[Anonymous No.7311590]

>>7310398
No, are you retarded? The PS1 was pretty well built.

[Anonymous No.7311745]

>>7311590
>The PS1 was pretty well built
Yep, the hallmark of a well-built console is having to turn it upside down to get it to read discs

[Anonymous No.7311750]

>>7311590
>The PS1 was pretty well built.
https://www.ign.com/articles/1997/01/29/sony-changes-psx-to-correct-fmv-skip-problem

[Anonymous No.7311758]

>>7310398
It's cheap shit like almost everything Sony built during the 90s

[Anonymous No.7312152]

>>7310398
>>7311745
All of this was just problems with really early revisions of the console. From like 550X onward it's really good.

[Anonymous No.7312296]

>>7310748
somehow my year 1 ps2 still works, though it will only play ps1 games standing up for some reason

[Anonymous No.7312305]

>>7311745
it's funny, mine never had this issue
everybody else i knew had this shit going on with theirs though

[Anonymous No.7312316]

>>7310414
This.
Its also the sole reason why the Gameboy beat the game gear, it just had WAY more quality games.

[Anonymous No.7312327]

>>7312316
>sole reason why the Gameboy beat the game gear
lets ignore it coming out a year earlier and the battery life

[Anonymous No.7314306]

>>7310398
>Saturns consoles seem to have held up better with time
That's because the Saturn saw far less use.

[Anonymous No.7314348]

>>7310398
i like its games more than saturn's and saturn's more than n64's

[Anonymous No.7314369]

>>7310398
>There's a huge after market for PSX laser assemblies

Oh? w-what's a good site for that? (and don't say aliexpress, they just dial up the pot of old ones)

[Anonymous No.7314426]

>>7314306
Kek.

[Anonymous No.7314483]

>>7311745
>turn it upside down to get it to read discs
Can confirm. My PSX was only reading discs when turned upside down.