Just a friendly reminder: In case you have not yet registered any one of your Nintendo games of game systems at Club Nintendo, you might not want to wait too long to do it.

By registering your new Nintendo game system – including DSi XL, DSi, DS Lite and Wii – at the Club Nintendo web site, you automatically get a free 90 days added to the 1-year warranty on your hardware.

SquareTrade, a firm that deals in warranties for electronics, analyzed the data taken from more than a thousand warranty purchases. It found that the Xbox 360 has a failure rate of about 16.4%, making it much more malfunction prone than the Playstation3 and Wii, which have a failure rate of only 3%. According to 1UP, they were far above Microsoft’s own estimates, which were, ironically, also 3%.

Sixty percent of those 360 failures were due to the system’s infamous “Red Ring of Death,” where 3 flashing LED lights go on around the power button to indicate a…