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[sneef]

Okay I just bought a new white DS lite today and your right the new hinges are alot more stronger.  I dont see any cracks on this one but Im expecting it to appear. I dont have any stuck pixels like last time either.  I wonder why nintendo didnt realise this their system has been out for about 6 months now

4 months

[ALTERNATIVE]

Update:

I just called Nintendo Customer Service and they confirmed the rumours that if you have a cracked hinge, you will get a replacement free of charge. However, if you have a non-US colour, they will not give you back the same colour. In other words, I have a navy blue ds lite, if I sent it in, I would get a white one back. Oh well.

tl;dr: nintendo will replace your ds lite if you have a cracked hinge.

[Altor]

Gotta love nintendo for that.  They admit when they have a problem and they actually fix it, rather than just saying "problems are to be expected with new hardware.  go piss yourself."

[darkunitzero]

Woot! I got crystal white, so I'll get back polar white. Same thing!!Muhaha

[rocky]

I wonder if they fixed the problem yet they say its like 0.02% that have the problem but that is still alot of DS's

[darkunitzero]

Yea, considering how many they rolled out. There are more DSL sold then psp now right?

[rocky]

I think the number will be alot more than 0.02%in a little while when everyone complains.  I think their just going by how many complained

[RedruM7]

Bought mine from Japan in early April, take it with me everywhere and I open it to 180 often, plus my DS lite had a nice brush in with a concrete slab (foolishly put it in my shirt pocket, bent over to pick something up... you know the rest)  I was scared since I've busted a PDA (screen) while it was in a leather case no less from a fall, but the DS lite took the fall remarkably well, if I looked hard I could see some scratches and scuffs, but otherwise you wont notice anything, one of the shoulder buttons popped out slightly, popped it back in and everything was perfect.

So yea my hinge is still good. Looking at the pictures, the cracked hinge doesent look like much of a problem though.  I find the Lites quite durable after seeing it take a fall like mine did.

[dOoBiX]

I have an idea of why the left hinge cracks! It's because we are right handed!

Look at this picture. If you hold the DS lite with your thumb on the hinge and the pen on the right hand, I think that makes it loose and also makes it crack.

I try to hold mine like this, my thumb on the dpad area while I'm playing a game.

It'd be interesting if there was a left handed person playing with the DS lite. If the lefty holds the DS lite on the right hinge and the pen on their left hand, then I suspect that the right hinge will  crack.

[sneef]

i'm right handed and i never hold it the way you were holding it in the first picture.

but, I do wonder if it's the way we open the DS Lite.  i.e., which corner we grab and pull from..

either way, i'm pissed, and it must be a problem with certain batches, because my first wave Navy DSLite had no problems, only my new white one.

[rocky]

on a website their were about 100 people who said they had a cracked on but I didnt see any other colors but white on their.  so I think its white.  I have always opened my Ds lite from the center not on the sides and when I hold the system I grab below the D pad or grab the supercard.  My lite has cracked I got a new one and havent seen any problems yet but I bet I will again.  Well that what I get for being cheap and not getting the expencive black or blue

[ALTERNATIVE]

Well that what I get for being cheap and not getting the expencive black or blue

Well, like I said earlier, I have the navy blue DS Lite and have the cracked hinge problem, so I doubt its specific to the white ones.

[rocky]

oh realy, so it must just be different plastic they used.  when did you get yours was it at release of the navy blue?

[PharaohsVizier]

Awww man I just realized mine is cracked too, I guess I'll get a replacement

[johnny9562001]

i cant believe it, but mine is cracked too i didnt even noticed it till i read this thread.