During its heyday, i owned literally 6 different PS2 consoles, all of them fat's except for one, and ALL of them had dvd drives that died. Literally, even the slim. Never had any problems with my PS1's however. I had a few Sony portable CD players when i was younger, and not a single one lasted any longer than a year ( most less that 6 months!!!). Maybe its just bad luck , i dunno:lol:
sony lasers are crap sega allways had good quality lasers after a few years of wear all lasers will be dead in a few years anyway i had about 10 ps3 consoles replaced by sony in a few weeks all laser faults and games freezeing but not over heating 60gb ps2 backwards compatiable