Why do "Nintendo" Buttons self destruct?

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Anyone ever try to figure out why the buttons used on Nintendo Games seem to blow up? I'm not sure I've ever seen any other button break like that or maybe no one complains about it on other machines because they are easily replaceable.

Could it be they are overtightened? the spring? the microswitch? Does it mainly happen on metal CPs or do buttons used on the wood CPs suffer the same fate?
 
I think they built if for little weak asian children. Once us american monkeys pound on the control panel for a bit, they break.

Actually i'm not so sure that they break anymore than any other button, it's just the Nintendo buttons are harder to find, so usually they're left broke. Nobody cares if a happ style button breaks, you can replace it for 1.00, so it doesn't stay broken.

To prove my point I offer all the control panels you see with different colored buttons in the wrong spots, where an op popped one in after it broke on route.
 
I think the plastic they used hasn't aged well and is more brittle than other plastics. I had a button on my red tent just pop out because the shaft below the button cracked and the base fell off.
 
My daughter just busted one off on my red tent Sunday night. She hit it and the button top just fell off, the shaft and spring still sitting there. First one I have had break.
 
Nintendo used a harder more brittle plastic than other manufacturers for their pushbuttons. I guess Nintendo wanted to make more money selling parts.
 
It's definitely a pattern on the Nintendo games. I've seen other buttons not work because of dirt or the spring, but the ones on Nintendo games shatter. It explains why there are so many two toned buttons on Nintendo CPs as well. The OPs didn't even have to unscrew the button base to replace the plunger part.
 
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