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my ds has a bad pixel and a broken shoulder (for lack of a better analogy), and it's too late to send it in for a new one. but other than that, nothing of mine has yet to fail.
Every console that I've owned has lasted a very long time and is still in use today. The only issue I've ever had was with a GBA SP Famicom Edition that I got from the sadly now closed, Lik Sang. I had one dead pixel. LikSang told me that it was common and I wasn't having a replacement. I dealt with it and sold the machine on when I got a DS Lite.
Even my Playstation 1000 model works perfectly to this day.
I took perfect care of my 360, yet it died four days after the warranty was up. The repair service has been smooth so far, and no one else I know personally has had problems with their 360 (including 2 friends who bought theirs on launch day). So I would say the infamous failure rates are due to idiots who keep their consoles poorly ventilated. Can't say anything about the Wii, so far so good; likewise, I can't say anything about the PS3, because no one owns one.
I've had very few issues with any of the consoles I've bought over the years. My DS has that hinge crack issue, which is fairly annoying but only a cosmetic issue. Sometimes my Wii will take a few minutes to start a game or channel up. It's weird, and it only happens every so often.
The brass contacts on my NES, SNES, and N64 games are my biggest current issue, but those systems are fairly old at this point and off your topic...
Never had any problem with my Wii, it did lead to my PC needing a new hard drive (friend of mine swing playing tennis and took out my desk), but apart from that its all been fine. Occasionally I've had minor issues with the Wii-motes not being recognized, but repeated button mashing fixes that.
My DS is constantly being battered around in my bag, but has yet to break even a little bit.