My Wii's disc drive died last week so I had to get Nintendo to repair it which cost me 120 aud... sucks that I had to pay for that kinda **** since they USED to offer lifetime warranties with their products... not any more though, bleah.
You can find details about this and stories of other peoples troubles with console and PC hardware in a discussion over at Twilight Lynk:
http://www.twilightlynk.com/2010/11/...ware-failures/
*shameless*
