Nintendo DS lite - hinge craking no longer being repair free?

[irstupid]

mysticD said:

irstupid said:
does the DS still work with this hinge crack thing. Or what is the exact meaning of this.

Cause my DS on the hinge on one side is cracked but never cared to worry about getting it fixed cause everything is still perfectly fine, it just has a small crack. Why would you even worry about a $90 fix or a new DS if the ds still works.

It still work but you have to hold the screen up, it's not un-playable but definitely defeat the purpose of having a play anywhere portable game systyem.

I am worry because why should I get stuck with something that is clearly a defective issue.  But according to Nintendo they no longer deem this is defective.  I guess in the beginning when DS Lite launch they want to keep positive image so they quickly announce free repair for defective hinge.  Now that the Lite is beating the pants out of the PSP, they really don't care if you getting it fix or buying another one (form their repair price, I assume they want you to buy a new DS Lite)

 

 

my screen stays in any angle i want it.  i don't have to hold it to stay open or whatever angle i want it to be.    So maybe here are extremes to how bad they crack.  But seriously you have to be super hard on your system to crack it harder.  I think i cracked mine probably by opening it to far or something, but i can open it max all i want now and no extra cracking