My Nintendo DS is broke

I saw this before, and I guess I figured that it involved some degree of rough handling:

So to summarize, if your DS Lite has the hinge crack that we've all seen, then Nintendo will likely repair it free of charge. It also sounds like Nintendo may have figured out that the crack was caused by overtightening.

[ Nintendo Capitulates, Offers Free Repairs for Cracked DS Lites - Kotaku ]

Now I don't think so. I've treated my DS with the utmost care and respect, and I still got a broken hinge. In addition when I close the lid instead of auto-pausing it now seems to toggle auto pause on and off and on and off. However the warrantee is still good, and people are claiming that Ninty will fix this one, so the question remains will it be fixed in time to play the new Zelda DS game?