Years ago, while talking about QA one of my professors asked in class one day asked how you know if your roof has any leaks and the answer he gave was "You wait for it to rain" ...

Highly improbable that you can produce a highly complicated device or system that doesn't have any flaws, and (no matter how much testing you do) many of these flaws will make it into production. Typically, the major flaws get identified early and fixed rapidly so it is rare that these problems persist for particularly long; but dealing with these problems tends to go along with buying any product as soon as it is released.

While I could be wrong, I suspect that Nintendo will have eliminated most of these issues in the next software update; and the few people who (probably) have hardware problems will be able to exchange their system for one without the issue at no cost.

Nope. I've had it and I'm from Ireland.

(updated firmware too)

I think its linked with the model/brand of modem/router you use.                                                                                                     I think the Update was supposed to fix that but only worked for a majority of products.

Its odd Nintendo has not picked up on this and is simply handing out
new 3DS's though..

I haven't got my  Repair Email reply from Nintendo I sent monday. Since its my second
request they may be scratching there heads.

Its really weird that this would be causing a system Error, the kind
that indicates the System is broken and needs a replacement.

Will be intresting to see what happens.

@Hephaestos    : /   Thanks..... I think o.0?

I blame Wii Fit.

It's called hand grease, try cleaning it with a cloth before you close the lid.

xDDDD
I almost freaked out when i saw those line LOL.
thought my screen was broken. 

Thx god its just hand gunk hehe.