The DaWii Code

Originally Posted by Vampiro

It's usually not a problem with Nintendo. All of mine are first-gen and they all work fine to this day. It's generally something you only have to worry about with Microsoft and especially Sony.

Originally Posted by Monkey King

A little publicized fact back when people were arguing whether Xboxes or PS2s broke down more was the Gamecube's incredible reliability. Nintendo builds pretty good hardware, and given that the Wii isn't trying to do anything outragous with its hardware, it stands to reason that it'll probably be way more stable than anything MS or Sony are putting out. 360s bursting into flames, anyone?

That is not to say that Nintendo is purfect, as far as I have seen it they seem to suffer from little design errors that become annoying (the Gamecube's oversized B button, The DS's Start button placement, [apparently, I have yet to prove this... thought with a iLite coming, I might] The DS Lite's hing issue, the N64 controler, SNES's overheading issue... etc.).
Granted, this is not to the scale of the Xbox recall, 360's heat issues (they are using a CPU with a historic heatting issue (a modified PowerPC chip, known on Macs of yesteryear), you would think that they would keep that in mind), The Japanese PS2 recall, and many heating issues with the PS2-post development, the PS2 reading issue, etc.... but nintendo does have it problems with systems even on the first shipment.
I can't say that the first set of Wii's will be perfect.

Jam it back in, in the dark.