does anyone remember when controllers broke before consoles did?

this generation of consoles are very expensive and they arent that reliable.  i dont even want to get into about how cheaply made other consoles are but we get the ylod from playing a game meant for the system, it should be able to handle it.  some of us paid an upwards of 600$ for our ps3s only to get a ylod a year or 2 later.  i remember when my old sega/nintendo controllers would constantly wear out and all i would have to do is buy another controller, (which didnt cost too much) not an entire system for 300-600$.  to this day i still have all of my old consoles and they actually still work as good as the day i bought them.  the funny thing is, i bet theres hardly anyone at all whos ps3 controller actually went bad even though there ps3 system died on them.  they just dont make em like they used to huh? but they sure do charge more.  my playstation 2 has fallen from a 4 foot height over 30 times from people and dogs running into the cords and it never skips a beat to this day.  i would hate to see my ps3 fall even once from hardly any height, but i kind of have a feeling it wouldnt work afterwards……i wish they would focus more on the quality instead of trying to rush things out before someone else does,  things almost always end badly that way.  im sure this will have negative responses but im just wondering if anyone out there actually remembers when you spent a lot of money on a video game console that you got the quality and reliability that you paid for.  playstation will always be my favorite video game console but it just seems like they are making cheaper quality products and still charging a high-end price in my opinion.