Did you buy extended warranty for your Wii?

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I bought a Wii on Sunday @ CC. The guy offered me extended warranty (2 years for $60 bucks) for my Wii but i turned him down. Do you think it is worth to get extended warranty for Wii? I haven't heard much problems about Wii compared to Xbox 360. What do you guys think? Is it worth it or just a waste of money? Thanks!
 
You get a year (plus three months if you register it on Nintendo.com) out of the box with Nintendo, so that's good enough for me.

CC has/had too much fine print in their extended warranties, I've learned after buying one for my laptop.
 
Waste of money. If you register online with Nintendo, you already get an extra 90 days added on to the 1 year manufacture's warranty. Nintendo consoles are built to last, so if yours doesn't mess up in that first 15 months (most of which are coming from the graphics card getting over heated 1-5 months in the console life), it is probably good for a few more years beyond that.
 
Not to mention that if you DO have to have it repaired within thosefirst 15 months, Nintendo extends your warranty by another full year.
 
[quote name='catapult37']Not to mention that if you DO have to have it repaired within thosefirst 15 months, Nintendo extends your warranty by another full year.[/QUOTE]

GREAT! Thanks guys! you guys save me $60 bucks!...
 
Seriously, ask youself this: When was the last time you had ANY Nintendo console fail on you?

Hell, my SNES still ran like new by the time I gave it away to another gamer a few years back.

~HotShotX
 
[quote name='catapult37']Not to mention that if you DO have to have it repaired within thosefirst 15 months, Nintendo extends your warranty by another full year.[/QUOTE]

Whoa! No way.. I didn't know that!
 
I did. But I also bought it from a family member and I bought the warranty to help out his numbers. Plus at the time, I didn't know if there would be any defects with the system, it had just come out. I feel so dirty for buying the warranty. Oh well.
 
YES you be #$#$#$ if you break your wii LOL

really though, I always buy the warrenty at Best buy. Why? cause anytime in those two years you can take the system in and they will give you a new sysstem for free *unless they changed the rules*

Meaning i go into today and get a wii for 250

June 1 2009 I can take the wii into best buy and say its not working right and say the Wii now cost 150

I will walk out the door with a brand new Wii + 100 bucks

(they give you the difference)
 
I bought it only because the guy at the store did me one hell of a favor by holding the Wii back for me. I know the pressure those guys are are under to make their #s, so I figured it was the best way to return the favor.
 
[quote name='VAD3R or Fro']Nintendo products dont need waranties.[/quote]

you mean additional warranties.

save the $60, you should be okay with 15 months with Nintendo's coverage.
 
I didn't bother with the warranty, because I've never had a major problem with a Nintendo product. My Gamecube didn't care for Eternal Darkness, and I used the BB Plan to trade it back, but other than that, no worries.

I know a guy in Australia, on the other hand, who's had nothing but trouble with his Wii from day 1, and Nintendo of Australia sucks compared to Nintendo of America. He argued for 8 months to get them to fix it, they finally agreed to look at it, and they sent it back more broken than it was originally.
 
The CC warranty only nets you 9 additional months of warranty, as it's 2 years from date of purchase. I bought one with my Wii and returned it the next day when I found it it was 2 years total, not 2 years additional.
 
Nope, the 15 months is more than enough. Generally if electronics have design flaws they'll crap out in the first year and usually much sooner.

Plus, if it last longer than that, there will likely have been a price drop or one coming soon, so I'd rather take the risk.

But I'm not one to buy extended warranties anyway. I will buy one for the 360 when I get around to picking one up (waiting on price drop) as they have such a damn ridiculous failure rate.
 
[quote name='VAD3R or Fro']Nintendo products dont need waranties.[/quote] Surprisingly, the Wii has a higher failure rate than the PS3.
The PS3 is a tank.*

*Don't worry, I'll make the joke for you guys first.
Yeah, it's tank alright, tanking in sales!
 
also remember if you buy your extended warranty from a store they wont be able to do anything with the VC games you brought
 
[quote name='slidecage']YES you be #$#$#$ if you break your wii LOL

really though, I always buy the warrenty at Best buy. Why? cause anytime in those two years you can take the system in and they will give you a new sysstem for free *unless they changed the rules*

Meaning i go into today and get a wii for 250

June 1 2009 I can take the wii into best buy and say its not working right and say the Wii now cost 150

I will walk out the door with a brand new Wii + 100 bucks

(they give you the difference)[/QUOTE]

Wait, what!?!? I didn't know that either!! WTF!!:hot:

[quote name='dallow']Surprisingly, the Wii has a higher failure rate than the PS3.
The PS3 is a tank.*

*Don't worry, I'll make the joke for you guys first.
Yeah, it's tank alright, tanking in sales![/QUOTE]

Sauce on that? I honestly believe it if it includes the wrist strap thingy... otherwise, I've heard anything about bad PS3s or Wiis. It's as if the 360 is so unreliable that it's eating into the unreliability of the other two systems.
 
if you register at mynintendo you get an extra 3 months warranty free, so that's 15 months total out of the box. i'd say that's all i really need. i got mine at eb and they didn't offer any type of extra warranty anyway.
 
[quote name='Vinny']Wait, what!?!? I didn't know that either!! WTF!!:hot:



Sauce on that? I honestly believe it if it includes the wrist strap thingy... otherwise, I've heard anything about bad PS3s or Wiis. It's as if the 360 is so unreliable that it's eating into the unreliability of the other two systems.[/quote]

Well, nothing official I'm afraid.
Just from my own personal experience of browsing through various, VARIOUS A/V boards, hobby boards, game boards, system boards.
There's always a couple threads about the Wii graphic glitch (overheating ATI cards causing random pixels and eventual unplayability).
I've only seen once, a thread about someone's PS3 dying.

Not a widespread Wii problem by any means, but it's here and there. I wouldn't worry about it. Till you see dots.
 
Nope, I never had any problems with a Nintendo console (ok well my AC adaptor on my NES would kinda fuck up a little bit sometimes at the later stages of when I had my NES), but other than that I had no troubles with any Nintendo product at all. Now X-box 360, thats a different story, :rofl:
 
[quote name='VAD3R or Fro']Nintendo products dont need waranties.[/quote] My Game Cube died after 2 1/2 years. Costco had discontinued the cube, but I got my money back anyway. I picked up a new cube & actually came out ahead because the price had dropped.
The bottom line is Nintendo stuff does sometimes break. :cry:
 
I've also been lucky enough to not have a Nintendo console crap out on me. Even my launch DS Lite came with no cracked hinges, dead pixels or anything.
However, the Onyx DS I got my girlfriend for Christmas had a few problems and sending it in was no problem.

I'm pretty sure that most Wii's should be fine for however long the warranty is + the extra few months tacked on for registering. But hey, like the above poster said, systems (and electronics in general) do break, no matter what the company.
 
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