It looks like the hardware malfunctions that plagued the Xbox 360 last year are creeping onto the PS3 and Wii, as well.

In the Wii's case, looks like Nintendo already has a system in place to replace crashed consoles. On the one hand, that's nice. On the other, it's depressing that they need a system at all.

Maybe it was just a more naive time, what with the lack of blogs and Web sites to spread the word, but did anyone have issues with their Genesis or SNES systems at launch? Those things just seemed to work forever.