Though even in such simple accidents such as it falling from a coffee table can be devastating to a PS2. And unless you want to cradle it like an egg for the rest of the time you have it, then it's good to know that Gamecube is much more durable. A friend of mine, named Nick, his PS2 hardly went anywhere. It stayed on his coffee table almost all year long. And do you know what happened to it? I'll tell you. It started with a disk read error on occasion. Nothing too serious. a week later, it woudl only read certain games, one or two of his collection. a month later, it would only read one game and woudl do nothing else. A week after that, it stopped completely. and he did nothing to it. He in the end had to replace it. Another 200$ dollars out of his pocket. after barely a year of play.
My friend's gamecube, however, was accidentally dropped from a two story window during a vacation and worked liek he'd just taken it out of the box.
My gamecube which i've had for two years has out lived a Ps2 gotten around teh same time by half a year. and my gamecube is in such a condition that promises to run for several years afterward.
So in teh end, I'm glad I can trust my gamecube to work for me. At least I don't get that annoying disk read error that every PS2 gets eventually. :P
