{"id":968015,"date":"2026-01-04T02:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/best-rrod-games"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:59:19","slug":"the-best-games-that-bricked-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-best-games-that-bricked-consoles\/","title":{"rendered":"The best games that bricked consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/the-best-games-that-bricked-consoles.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s now a premium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/best-games-ever-podcast-extended-edition-info-page\">extended version<\/a> of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber &#8211; check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/subscribe\/standard\">Support Us<\/a> page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don&#8217;t worry if that&#8217;s not for you, the main show will always be free.<\/p>\n<p>If you were lucky enough to have lived through the 7th console generation as a young adult with enough disposable income to buy a couple of games per month, you ate damn well. You probably have countless fond memories of each big new watercooler game that the studios of the day were firing out with alarming regularity, and you had no idea what the hell &#8220;games as a service&#8221; meant. Bliss.<\/p>\n<p>What wasn&#8217;t blissful, though, was how unreliable the machines were. The Xbox 360 of course was blighted by the Red Ring of Death scandal, a vast and expensive tech design and consumer rights blunder that cost Microsoft billions to put right. The PS3 similarly had the Yellow Light of Death, which wasn&#8217;t as bad or as widespread as Microsoft&#8217;s issue, but still affected a lot of people and is pretty much a guaranteed certainty if you&#8217;re still lucky enough to have a working PS3 Fat: clean that thing religiously and change the thermal paste. Honestly. Do it. It will die eventually whatever you do, but don&#8217;t tempt fate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/best-rrod-games\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/best-rrod-games\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber &#8211; check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don&#8217;t worry if that&#8217;s not for you, the main show will always be free. If you were lucky enough to have lived through the 7th console generation as a young adult with enough disposable income to buy a couple of games per month, you ate damn well. You probably have countless fond memories of each big new watercooler game that the studios of the day were firing out with alarming regularity, and you had no idea what the hell &#8220;games as a service&#8221; meant. 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