DS Lite Cracking Up?

A bit disturbing...

i was planning to pick one up, and give my old DS away (g/f). Let's hope Nintendo makes a statement about this soon, confirming a faulty badge, or a nice replacement service.

i offered my old DS to my gf,she couldnt of been less interested,but to be fair she has the gaming coordination of a 4year old.

i have a nice black DSlite,no problems as of yet,touch wood.

I would definitely like to know what they mean by many people reporting it. where exactly and how many?

Increasing? at what rate?

you realize that there are MILLIONS of ds sold around the world.. and that even 300 (which i very much doubt they're over 100-150 online reports...not to say about 20...) are not something serious to consider.


Smells like misuse.

I don't necessarilly think it's a misuse thing, but it also may not be a major deal.

I own a Sager 5690, a speedy machine even if it's 2 years old (supposedly it can run oblivion, so not bad for a 2 year old lappy). On some models, the hinge for the screen cracks. some get it, some don't. Mine doesn't.

so, some people were obviously worried when they heard about this, but there were never any reports that the screen came loose, or that the hinge itself was damaged - just the outside casing.

It may not look as nice, but they still function.

Perhaps this DSL is the same deal.

I'm not entirely sure what you are saying there. But using traditional stats, you'd expect 20 complaints to equal about 2,000 problems.

But now that the Internet, blogs, forums etc make it much, much easier for people to complain, it probably a lot lower.

And this just illustrates Tyrion's point (in another thread) that new hardware has problems. Always. They get sorted and we move on. But somehow, I'm sure the Nintendo loving Sony hating contingent will forget this WAY WAY WAY before they stop harping on about the PS2 problems that were sorted years ago.

Yeah mine done tht only becos my bro threw it against a wall , pretty mashed as you can see lol, gettin a replacement of nintendo tho ;-)
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g117/rik-chard/dslitebrick.jpg

Nasty!

Did you perhaps respond by throwing yr brother against the wall?

See, but you will never know what people consider to be "normal usage". One could perceive this to be having it dangling from a 4 year olds hand via wrist strap. I take immaculate care of all my portables, but s**t does happen. Infact, I've accidentally dropped my DSL already, and it still works fine. My original DS went through similiar torment, was charging on a table when the vacuum cleaner came by and ripped it right off the table when it snagged the cord. Heck my GBC had a run in with the bathtub, and countless GBA games have seen the inner worrkings of a laundry machine.

Nintendo builds quality stuff, treat it like an electronic device and not a childrens toy and you will be fine. It's not an action figure, it's a piece of electronic equipment, its treatment should be as such.

im on my 3rd ds lite. the first had a dead pixel, the second had a loose touch screen which may or may not have something to do with the fact i sat on it.

the r button on this 3rd lite seems a bit stiff but im just going deal, im probably being pedantic on this last one.

My first PSP had whole clusters of dead pixels, my 2nd one had dust under the cover, and my third one now has 1 dead pixel. Of all the PSP's I've seen, mine is of the best quality. Many people have settled for having a single dead pixel on their psp.

As of now I have never owned a defective nintendo product, good luck? Or good product...

well, my nes, snes, nintendo 64 and gamecube still work flawlessly after years upon years of being battered by gameplay and accidents, so id say good product.

this was just a hiccup!

My first PSP (a day zero Japanese import) was perfect. Still is. The one I bought my brother's for his birthday was perfect. Still is. My first PlayStation still works. My first PS2 still works. The SLC7-UB Betamax video recorder that I bought in 1982 still works. The Trinitron TV I sold in 1999 when I bought my first projector (a Sony projector, now I think of it!) still worked, for all I know it still does. The projector worked perfectly for two years, untilt he bulb life expired - and I opted to buy a new projector rather than a new bulb.

So maybe we're both lucky...

I'd have to say that I am too then.

My PSP has no issues, day one UK release, so there's still time! My PS1 still works and my day one UK PS2 only started having intermittent read issues last year and only with GT4. And that was after it had been the SPOnG PS2 test machine for a couple of years, with me taking it home every weekend and sometimes every night. The issue was probably an alignment one. Besides I wanted an excuse to buy a slimline!

In addition, my Sony DVD player/amp works perfectly and as far as I know every Sony product that my friends have owned has been OK.

Never had any broken Nintendo products.

Went through 3 PS1s, and haven't bought another one since the third.

Ladies, Gentlemen, but mainly consumers and poor people.

You should ask not, "am I lucky?", because unless you are the President of the United States of America, you don't seem very lucky to me. Not that luck had anything to do with it, it was mainly my cousin fixing votes in Flouride and my brother calling the election on Fox news (I love those guys).

Instead, you should ask, what can I do for my country. And the answer is, you can stop buying this Japanese crap, and buy good old US of American things. If you had heeded this advice, we would now be playing on our Atari 98000XLs and our ColecoVision 9s, and I would be far far richer than I already am.

Remember, we invented global capitalism to enable us to go into other countries and sell them our crap, not so we would buy there's. The idea was not to create an egalitarian world where everyone could park their f**king Lexus under an Olive Tree, but instead to enable us to produce stuff for jack s**t in Exploitedostan, and sell it for top dollar on 5th Avenue.

So f**k Nintendo, and go buy a Gizmondo. Anything else is to be a terrorist., and to hate our poor dead soldiers and the little baby Jesus.

Gobless Murka!

i know a few people that bought a ps2 earlier on in the console's shelf life and none of them work now. ive heard about horrible dead pixel problems with psp's too.

maybe people who own working sony products are lucky, and people who get defective nintendo products are unlucky?

I know a few people who have working PSPs and working PS2s.

Maybe people you know are unlucky, and people I know are lucky. But you know what they say... you make your own luck.

Is this the real G W****r Bush, or an impersonator posting under Presedient Evil?

Or are the two one and the same...?

I had my ds lite for exactly 32 days and got a crack in the hinge. I brought the protection plan with the system so I was able to return it for a new one.

My first is in cobra, but not in oar
My second is in lucid, but also in stupid.
My third is in santa. and in nasty too.
My last is in hot, but not hopkinson.

What am I?