Is slow motion bad for game consoles?
I have always wondered about the long-term affects of slow-motion controller buttons on game consoles and cartridges. If I understand the concept correctly, most of them operate on the premise of a switch that effectively pulses the start/pause button on and off successively at fraction-of-a-second speeds. Now this leads me to wonder about how this affects the long-term lifespan of internal electronic components. My first inclination is that this must exert excessive fatigue on IRC's, processor chips, resistors, fuses and so forth. For instance, if a specific chip or resistor is rated at a life-expectancy of one million cycles, isn't regular use of slow-motion just accelerating the failure of said electronic component? Any thoughts...