I purchased the Mario Kart 8 console bundle and after ONE DAY, it is unusable. I played it the first night for several hours, doing online races on MK8 and a few hours on Pikmin 3 with no problems. The next day, the console initially started powering down in MK8 after a grand prix when you go to view the results (was playing split screen, not an online race). Then it started powering down after online races were completed, for each race. Then I tried to play Pikmin 3, the free game via the promotion (digital copy), and it randomly powered down after around 5 minutes. I am only posting here because the Nintendo support line (18002553700) is too busy to speak with anyone.
Have there been any developments on fixing this issue, or is my console now a brick? If there's no immediate fix, or if they don't give me something else free during the repair process, I'm going to start table-topping. Complete waste of $330.