• Persi@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      I’m not sure where this idea comes from, the PlayStation had a bad reputation even when it was new.

      The optical drive would often fail and need replacement. There was a whole meme about people using the console upside down to combat this.

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        I got this idea by actually owning one. I abused the fuck out of that thing, and it lasted half of my childhood.

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          11 hours ago

          The ps2 was also quite bad in that regard, but the meme about using it upside down was the original ps1.

          Console reliability took a sudden nosedive with the switch to optical drives.

          I’m sure the sony consoles weren’t the worst in that regard, but being by far the most popular meant you knew a bunch of people whose playstation would take half an hour to load a game if at all, but the one saturn you’d seen in your life worked fine.