2008 09: First Wii still alive (without repairs)?

[charlesr]

Is your first Wii still alive without needing repairs?

[Brad]

Yep, all good. Mind you it never gets used other than to charge up my Playstation controllers and a Bluetooth headset. I can confirm that the USB ports on the Wii are very durable!

[sj33]

US launch machine. Works fine. Updated to every update thus far, and have recently installed the Twilight hack/Homebrew Channel.

[Digfox]

UK launch machine. All fine (touch wood).

[Roddie]

Got UK and JPN machines, both still fine.

[DeathAdder]

Yes, although it crashes sometimes which can be annoying.

[Bort]

My first JPN Wii was DoA. The replacement and my US one have been fine.

[Brad]

Yeah, mine's pretty flaky. Controllers disconnect during game loading, games taking several minutes to load (making you think it's crashed but it hasn't) etc. Whole thing's a bit ropey really.

[saif]

JPN model from Jan 08. Absolutely fine...from memory

[MattyD]

My original PAL machine is still going strong at my brother's place and the USA one I bought about six months after launch is problem free AFAIK. At least it was when No More Heroes came out. I haven't touched it since I finished that

[KusoGaki]

Yeah, mine's pretty flaky. Controllers disconnect during game loading, games taking several minutes to load (making you think it's crashed but it hasn't) etc. Whole thing's a bit ropey really.

Do you have it connected to a LAN adapter by any chance?

Mine does the same thing, but doesn't seem to when i take the adapter out of the back. Seems to be trying to connect online or something.

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JPN machine, still working. Owned since december 2007.

[Rossco]

100% fine, touch wood.

[kernow]

100% fine, because all it does is sit in standby, if it did die I doubt I'd notice.

[C']

PAL launch machine. All fine here. I imagine when the apocalypse comes, Nintendo consoles will outlast most things.

[egparadigm]

No serious problem with my US machine bought this time last year.

I did get some really annoying drive noise, but I discovered that leaving a disc in the drive and starting up with it in there cured it.