How old is your Wii? and how many times it broke?

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#1 leevshan
Member since 2005 • 1065 Posts

I heard that some Wiis broke after only less than a week, so i was just curious.

Btw, mine is about 2 weeks, never broke, i hope not :D

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#2 Patrick793
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I've had mine since about July or August. It hasn't broken at all.
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#3 _N_R_G_
Member since 2005 • 273 Posts
On December the 8th i would of had my wii a year because that was launch day, mines broke once when the power brick stoped working
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#4 fraz1776
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6 months and it hasn't broke. Wii's as with all Nintendo consoles are very reliable.
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#5 Number_1_Gamer
Member since 2007 • 1786 Posts
I got mine in September, and haven't had any problems. The only thing that's broken is that I broke one of the hinges that holds on the cover over the GCN ports. That was my fault though, as I accidentally kicked my Wii over in the dark, and as I have hard floors instead of a rug or carpet, it broke.
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#6 neji122793
Member since 2007 • 831 Posts
had it for a month then it broke but now works fine.
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#7 joe84davis
Member since 2007 • 25 Posts
i got my wii last Febuary.the only thing wrong with it is the handle for the gamecube slot.
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#8 Fredrick2003x
Member since 2005 • 2056 Posts
I bought my Wii on launch day and it still runs as good as the day I got it :)
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#9 mattyftm
Member since 2005 • 7306 Posts

anyone who tells you that they break easily is just an xbox/playstation fanboy badmouthing the wii. Nintendo have a history of making very reliable consoles - and the wii isn't any diferent.

Naturaly there will be some faults - thats the nature of modern electronics, but generaly they are an extremely reliable system, and any problems will be sorted by nintendo's excelent customer service.

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#10 Nintendo_Ownes7
Member since 2005 • 30973 Posts
On December 19th it will be One year and a Month, and it has never broke on me yet.
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#11 TimeToPartyHard
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Got it launch day and have had no major crap ups.
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#12 Weslii
Member since 2007 • 2309 Posts
15 December. Not broken once.
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#13 evrdayblues
Member since 2005 • 512 Posts

Have had mine since July, never had a problem.

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#14 Taggsai
Member since 2007 • 1024 Posts
Got mine in January..never any problems. -knocks on wood-
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#15 snowman6251
Member since 2006 • 5321 Posts
since day one, it has yet to
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#16 Jaysonguy
Member since 2006 • 39454 Posts

This is a complicated answer

Now some of the very first Wii's released in Nov of last year ended up bricked from an update. That was a hardware flaw in certain consoles with the processor. The majority of these consoles were never meant for retail and we planned to be demo units at stores that would never be hooked to the internet.

Then you have the defective heatsink issue where it's not placed correctly on the board. After time you get artifacts on the screen as the board burns out. This is the issue that people incorrectly blame the Wiiconnect 24 for.

As for me I've had mine since the US launch and I've sent it back twice. Once for a disk read error and once for the bearing in the fan going.

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#17 chris3116
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I have it since May. I had no problems.
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#18 srpots
Member since 2005 • 110 Posts

I've had mine since launch and the it's frozen up probably 20 times; all when I've been playing for over 6 hrs straight. And one time for a while my controller wasn't connecting to the system

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#19 thebisonx
Member since 2003 • 2203 Posts
I bought my Wii last year on day one, November 19th, and I have never had any problems whatsoever. It is a Nintendo product, after all.
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#20 deactivated-5967f36c08c33
Member since 2006 • 15614 Posts
I've had mine since November 20,2006; it has broken twice.
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#21 samus934
Member since 2007 • 25 Posts

I got mine in January. Hasn't had a problem.

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#22 kingofthewii
Member since 2007 • 25 Posts
had mine close to a year and its froze one time i was play dbz bt2
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#23 Loz_Swords_W
Member since 2007 • 25 Posts

I bought my Wii on launch day and it still runs as good as the day I got it :)Fredrick2003x

Same.

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#24 nightcall14
Member since 2007 • 607 Posts
I have had mine for about a year and it never broke.
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#25 Lunar52
Member since 2006 • 2538 Posts
i got my wii in april it broke i got pissed but got new one in june
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#26 MissedTheBoat
Member since 2007 • 179 Posts
I got mine on the launch day and it never broke.
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#27 duhman02
Member since 2005 • 123 Posts
I got mine on the launch day and it never broke.MissedTheBoat
Same here
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#28 mariofan22
Member since 2005 • 273 Posts
I've had mine since about December... 9th (around that time) of last year -- so far, it's been perfect. :D
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#29 raahsnavj
Member since 2005 • 4895 Posts
10 Months or so. Never broke.... oh I take that back, one of the flaps protecting the GC memory cards broke off. So I threw it away. I wouldn't call that breaking though because really the flap never needed closing anyway because I always have a GC card in it.
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#30 fmacraze
Member since 2007 • 5658 Posts
ive had mine since april or march and nothing has gone wrong with it yet...
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#31 crispyo
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I got it a bit over 4 months ago (end of July) and it's fine.
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#33 FrankGlasses
Member since 2006 • 185 Posts

I bought my Wii on launch day and it still runs as good as the day I got it :)Fredrick2003x

yep. Same here. yaaa us.

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#38 actionquake
Member since 2007 • 335 Posts
Had it since March. Carried it all over the place. Still works fine.
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#39 aronmauk
Member since 2007 • 87 Posts

I got mine on the launch day and it never broke.MissedTheBoat

me too. some stuff did happen tho. pluged everything in and wondered why it wasnt working. turns out that there is this thing called a "motion sensor" yeah, was pathetic.

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#40 darthisaki
Member since 2004 • 806 Posts
Yeh i've had mine since Aussie release date and it workd fine.
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#41 kingmickey2
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January 19, no breaks yet

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#42 aransom
Member since 2002 • 7408 Posts

A little more than a year old.

Zero times.

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#43 akai_reaver
Member since 2004 • 7754 Posts

I had mine since it first came out.

Hasn't broke since.

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#44 patrickmanx
Member since 2007 • 398 Posts
One year, no broke
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#45 Ablasio
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Since December 2006, and it never broke.
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#46 bluezy
Member since 2004 • 29297 Posts
Had mine since January 25th, it's been just fine.
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#47 SmashBrosLegend
Member since 2006 • 11344 Posts
I've had mine since launch, and it works as well as it did when I brought it home.
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#48 JAB991
Member since 2007 • 6077 Posts
I've had mine since January and it still hasn't broken. A nunchuck broke, but it wasn't the one that came packaged with the console. The nunchuck always regestered someone moving left even when untouched.
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#49 Sepewrath
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I bought my Wii on launch day and it still runs as good as the day I got it :)Fredrick2003x

Same here, and its not surprising, Nintendo makes quality hardware.

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#50 markhit
Member since 2006 • 61 Posts
lauch. no break