It's crashy. I've owned mine since launch and by now it has crashed on me about 5 times. Twice within the last month, when it refused to show me a picture on screen after sleep mode.
The only thing that will still show up is the shut-down/sleep mode menu, if you try to shut it off via that menu it just freezes.
I've lost 10 minutes of precious golf story gameplay dammit!
Edit: Also that news thing you mention in OP. XD I actually made my japanese eshop account today, saw the news and went 'Oh, no.' ;____;