1. its been out near a month

2. this isn't bricking, the system still works unlike a bricked console

3. sounds like either a wifi problem or first gen games sd card problem.  (either way easily fixable unlike a hardware problem)

I saw it too...   

Well played alby wellll playeeed!

Anyway this is why I never buy consoles at launch {tries to quickly hide his PS3 launch day by receipt}

I wait till they have a new model out usually.

*hides in the corner* the gnomes shall protect me.

2. I know, I know, poetic license  , in most cases the system isn't bricked, but as the message says, if a restart doesn't solve it, neither does changing cartridge or removing it too, it can be considered bricking, although the article doesn't specify whether the worst case ever happened yet. BTW, some people overreacted to VGC gamrFeed article's and other sites' choice of wording, "screens of death" don't necessarily imply bricking (although Windows BSoD can force to time consuming reinstalls if it's caused by corruption or very serious conflicts of essential system files, beyond recovery tools abilities, but it's not a true bricking anyway if the user can fix it at worst with a reinstall, without sending the PC to tech support), unlike RRoD that was far more often, er, deadly, and it concerned HW, not SW or FW.

Anyway the overreactions from the misunderstanding about what can imply a screen of death compared to rings and lights of death quite amused me. Nice to know Nintendo HW reliability should still be intact, but on the SW front shit happens, like to anybody else (well, to some bloated northwestern giant it happens more often and in a not too far past it happened up to perfect shitstorm level to HW too, but let's stop here about it, some of its fans are oversensitive  ).

^ Do you always babble so much when you come under scrutiny?

Or is this even more Licence to Poetry?

This thread should be in the gaming sub-forum

Under scrutiny? I was clearly joking, while haters rode the original VGC article and the sites it cited happy to misunderstand a "screen of death" (that has been historically used for SW failures, while catastrophic HW ones usually use lights, if the HW itself is still able to turn them on, that is, so the wording was actually correct for this case)  for an unappellable bricking verdict, and a few rabid fans attacked the article accusing it of incorrectly implying the same thing with that choice of words and of being biased against Ninty or just wishing to stir a flamewar. And I just found the thing amusing, you know, much ado about (almost) nothing,   clearly 3DS won't sink for this little glitch, it will just be outsold by ______ (insert competing portable or smartphone of choice).   

Of course not. Their's was Red Screen of Death, there is nothing to do with the BSOD.