3DS' black screen of death?

This comment comes from reader julenisse50…

I bought my Aqua Blue 3DS at launch with ghost recon as my game of choice. Now it has gotten an error message for the second time:( It’s when I have played ghost recon for about ten minutes, the screens go black and the bottom screen says “A problem has occured, hold down the power button and restart the system. Contact your local support center if the problem persist”

Why do I bother to post up this message? Well, the same exact thing happened to me when I was playing Super Monkey Ball 3D. I went to enter a level, and then the game freaked, which lead to the message above. I’m thinking this might be more of an issue with select pieces of software than the unit itself.