Was the original DS the last Nintendium console?

The hinges and shoulder buttons were problems on every DS model.
I think the GBA SP was the last of the nintendium resources

Doesn't matter materials come from China, china sets the standard.

No, once I was in a hurry and stuffed my phat DS in my laptop bag and at the end of the trip parts of the hinge were cracked clean off. It was mostly my fault but bits of the hinge were made of fucking nothing.

I don't fucking know man. She seriously doesn't get why I feel the way I do about her but did shit like this to me my entire life.

All nintendo systems have a hinge that either fucking breaks (all DS's up to the 3DS XL) or feels like shit (N3DS), but the GBA SP hinge felt great and didn't break. Why couldn't they just keep using the working hinge design?

>played them for thousands of hours
>still all work just fine
>despite even often putting the screen back all of the way which isn't intended
Stop being so hard on your shit. They are not the Joycon.

The GBA was pretty solid. The SP to a lesser extent due to the hinge.

Maybe the 2DS, but I've never picked one up to feel how sturdy it is

The last of the great Nintendium was used up in making Game Boys. Those things might as well have been solid bricks.

Nonsense. The hinges on my original DS and DSi still haven't broken despite their age, but don't feel quite great or perfect (and never have). However, the N3DS feels absolutely perfect. I took care of my stuff, but some kids break stuff, thats just how it is sometimes.

I bought my DS Lite near launch and it's still in top condition. Like an user above said, you have to care about your shit

My mom is the same. She threw my Gamecube on the carpet for playing it too much. It couldn't read games after that.

That's the DS lite

What is Nintendium supposed to mean?

Are you kidding? The hinges on those bastards snapped all the god damn time

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The Wii is pretty sturdy. Can't count how many times my little brother and his friend yanked it onto the ground with the gamecube controller.

I had that model and the hinges split, but was after a looong time of heavy use. I've never had one myself but I've heard the 2DS can take a beating.

???

>isn't intended

Nah mate, where it goes totally flat instead of slightly angled, like the SP? That was intentional. You push it beyond that, that's not intended, but flat was fine.

As for me, pretty much every Nintendo portable, starting with the SP, had something go awry. For most it was shoulder buttons, getting dust in them or something like that. For DS Lite there was also hinge crack. DSi I never owned, so I can't say anything one way or the other. 3DS original had shoulder buttons fail quickly, XL just had bad sound (oh and both had those lines on your screen from closing the thing), New 3DS have been alright, except the regular N3DS I have doesn't show 3D well anymore. It's got ghosting, so the images are doubled across the screen horizontally. Pretty bad.

I think it's obvious why they went though, they are small devices with hinges n shit. Moving parts of those nature are less reliable. Dunno why PSP and Vita are still working fine when Nintendo's aren't though. If anything, I'd expect Sony shit to die long before.

its the material Nintendo built their early consoles out, hence why they are remarkably durable and indestructible.
See: the gameboy that survived a bomb blast

I think they were iffy. I got mine because a friend's little sister dropped it out of a moving car and the bottom screen cracked a little. It still works to this day.
I used to charge 10 bucks in high school to fix people's DS's and they had tons of problems. The main on being the pins that contact the cartridge would bend and not be able to contact anymore. I probably fixed like 10 of these and since you had to open them anyways I would hook people up with different colored cases. I got all the parts from deals extreme, it was like Aliexpress before Aliexpress. I think I got 100 random colored case parts for like $40 and 20 hinges for $8.

bullshit, the sturdiness doesn't depend purely on manufacturing and materials but mostly on design. Something with a hinge will always break more easily and if you check out how crammed modern consoles are compared to a NES or SNES, you also know why they break that much more easily.

>just take care of it bro

This is a false dichotomy supported entirely by people asserting that they are pinnacles in the delicate art of console care, and that anyone else does not maintain their product well enough. The DS Lite had an unusually notable failure rate just as many others did around that time (360 famously but PS3 as well), and it was more than can just be blamed on just poor care. Whether or not the hardware kept was dependent more on luck. You can argue that it's not that way, but try and do it with numbers, and not with falling back on your own anecdotal relations and smug sense of superiority.

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