A couple weeks ago, I turned on my Wii and got the message, “The system files are corrupted.” I didn’t feel like paying for repairs, so I waited a few days before finally deciding that I should get it fixed and called Nintendo to get it repaired. To my surprise, even though it is almost 2.5 years old, it was still under warranty, because I had already sent it in for repair recently for the Super Smash Bros Brawl recall, which extended the warranty for a year after that repair. I have to admit I was pretty surprised.

I unfortunately wasn’t able to get my original Wii back (I could tell because they returned a Wii with a new serial number), which is a little sad, because I used to have an opening day unit. But wait, that’s not really the frustrating part. On my original Wii, I had broken the covers for the GameCube controller ports and memory card slots (hey, I have kids, it’s tough to keep things like that) — but my replacement Wii didn’t have any of the covers, either! Really?! Did they actually take the time to remove the covers off my replacement so it would match my original? I really shouldn’t complain since I got free warranty repair, but I just thought it was a little confusing.