Depending on how you define serious, it looks like the DS hinge crack may be bordering on a serious a problem. According to our totally unscientific poll about 14 percent or 171 out of 1,249 of Kotaku readers who own a DS Lite and took the poll have a cracked hinge.

I think anything over 10 percent for a defect is bad. Nintendo really should be making some allowances for returns based on this issue. Hopefully when the things start becoming unhinged, they will. Brian Crecente

Cracked DS Lite Poll [Kotaku]

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