While this totally sucks and I really fear my own PS3 breaking outside of warranty, this just further points out why I love Nintendo. They replaced my DSLite for free and then extended my warranty to 1 year from the date of replacement.
Luckily if any of my systems break I have the national Nintendo repair center about 20 minutes away from my house. I think they do repairs on Sony products too, but I'm fairly sure they aren't Sony's contracted repair center.