A Kotaku reader who barely escaped with his life from Nintendo World yesterday wrote in to regale us with his harrowing tale. Take it away, Jeremy:

Picked up my DS Lite at the Nintendo World (NYC) this afternoon. They had approximately 1.2 bajillion of them, no shortage in sight. Walked a few blocks, sat down, and turned it on. A dead pixel! A few hours later, walk back to the store to exchange it...the helpful employee begins the exchange process, and a manager type fellow walks over. They look at each other, he in hushed tones asks, "Another one", to which was replied, "Uh huh", to which both rolled eyes and shook their heads. None of my probing could get an answer other than "I plead the fifth". Seems like this may be a more serious problem.

Now, were they rudely catting about our dear reader's justifiable request for a new DS, having dealt with general retail annoyances all day, or were they referring to a more serious dead pixel problem? Weigh in, commentors, who's got dead pixels on their Lites? Eliza Gauger

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