It's kinda weird seeing that so many people have had so many hardware failures myself and a few friends along with my entire family have never had a single console fail since owning Master Systems / NES. Mine/family's console's were played 8+ hours daily across many years back when the entire family was using them at different times of the day as well so they got some serious usage and a lot more than most would of.
The only breakage I that happened was a friend dropping his PS2 down the stairs but thats a different story lol.
Must have good luck in this neck of the woods lol.