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Nintendo Game Cube Crashing?

Posted by Cliff on from the consoles-shouldn't-crash dept.

flipper28 asks: "I recently purchased a Nintendo Gamecube with Luigi's Mansion for my wife's birthday. I thought with all the hype around the XBox crashing that I would be safe with the competition. As it turn's out, my system keeps crashing, and yes, I have exchanged the games (which IMHO only made Nintendo happy). I am interested if others have experienced the same problem. Is their a manufacturing problem, or did I just get a bad one." I've experienced crashing in the two days I've owned my GameCube, however this centers around replacing the disc with the power on and hitting reset...or something, but I've only had the cube crash at the power-on screen, so it's not been that big of an issue for me. Anyone else experiencing weird behavior on the GameCube?

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  1. Why are we only hearing this now? by Xenex · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The GameCube has been out in Japan for the best part of 3 months. In that time I have not read one complaint about the console crashing anywhere online.

    Now that the GCN has been out in the States for a week, and there is now people (well, one person on Slashdot actully) talking of it crashing?

    So, what am I supposed to believe? That the console has been flawless for the past 3 months in Japan, yet now crashes on US soil? This Ask Slashdot story is the first I've heard of the GCN crashing, but I guess the repuation around here will be that the GameCube is buggy now.

    Personally, someone out there is just making themselves some news. Why don't you just go back to bitching that Nintendo didn't include DVD playback. At least that is based on fact. I mean, DVD playback is essencial in a machine made for playing games...