Nintendo consoles aren’t extremely durable. Remeber the blowing in the NES and game cartridges to hoepfully get them to work? Plus, my first GC died after about 4 months…well it’d play games for a about 5 minutes before giving me a disc read error some of the time. In fact, my PS2 is my strongest lasting system. My XBOX started to give me disc read errors a lot so I used a lense cleaner, and that killed it, but after a year. My PS2 is about 3 years old now I think, or will be this summer, and still runs strong. It takes awhile to initially load the game at times, but it still loads it fine and runs smoothly (my taking awhile could also be absed on the way the XBOX and GC load games). My PSX also still works well and it is the only one I’ve had (I’ve had that about 7 or 8 years).