peanutbutterlatte
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A way to get around having "Nintendo 3DS/2DS/3DSXL Page". No idea why people are quoting it as if it means something
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Nintendo Confirms Miiverse for 3DS "Soon", Smartphone Apps for Network Also Coming
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A way to get around having "Nintendo 3DS/2DS/3DSXL Page". No idea why people are quoting it as if it means something
I dont think he is at all. Nintendo has been very quiet and has promised a lot and hinted a lot for a long time now. With low WIiU sales, incoming update, holiday season getting very close I expect Nintendo to pour a lil gas on sooner than later.
Well Nintendo would be well aware of this and even though GameFreak do their own thing, Nintendo would have advised them on if something were to be possible at the same time so they could shift it to that.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
I don't honestly think the two have bearing on each other, Pokemon's always sort of done it's own thing, it's circumvented Pictochat before. If Nintendo are going to launch Miiverse this year, they're going to do it with either Pokemon or Zelda, I would imagine.
Rizsparky
Member
Thats not a good sign, I was hoping they would have Miiverse integrated with X/Y..
edit dp my bad
This doesn't mean anything unless it's an official Nintendo page.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
... it is.
I wasn't able to find the page, though; neither from it's "Nintendo Handheld Gaming" name or "Nintendo 3DS" name.
Either way, since they now have two handhelds called 2DS and 3DS, changing it from 3DS to a generic name makes sense.
Jaded Alyx
Member
Where does this message appear?
vagabondarts
Member
I still believe miiverse and accounts will show up on a new version/refresh of the 3DS and shoehorned in on current versions.
It's been so long into the life of the system now...
It's been so long into the life of the system now...
I'm more concerned with the way these reports are reading. To me, it seems that this is merely just a portal to access the current Miiverse on the 3DS rather than a fully implemented 3DS version of it.
vagabondarts
Member
Yeah that's how it seems to me also.
They will be able to only develop forward if they do it this way, instead of working backward and developing pages for games already released ( I'm sure they will do some of that, but not for every game)
You're aware that they have just announced a hardware refresh, right?
Well there are Miiverse communities for Animal Crossing, Luigi's Mansion 2 and Mario & Luigi Dream Team, so it stands to reason
It is.
vagabondarts
Member
Yes but that's not what I mean. I mean either a new device/platform that replaces 3DS or a upgraded model that has more power inside to facilitate the new OS functions of miiverse.
So you mean a 3DS successor? Because I think that would probably be the only time they upgrade the insides. Don't want to fragment your user base if some games use that extra oomph in the new version but regular 3DS' can't play it.
It wouldn't. It would be like the DSi to the DS Lite. All games playable, but only on the DSi you could use some features in games.
Forgot about the DSi lol
What games even used the extra features, other than Pokemon and dsi ware?
vagabondarts
Member
They would only use it for OS functions and minor improvements.
I don't think Nintendo of today cares about perceived fragmentation. They may just wait for a true successor. Who knows.
I don't know. Searching gives me lists, but they seem to be rom sites lol...so I can't link it here.
Very few. Some camera based ones, but the DSi features were almost always WPA encryption inclusion
It's from Nintendo's official facebook account.
Don't forget region locks
Not gonna happen. 3DS is selling like hotcakes, a successor is years away and Miiverse for 3DS is imminent.
spyroflame0487
Member
You could also just mess around with the Facebook url. The link for the page is here, and Facebook recently got a "verified page" thing.
So Miiverse isn't going to adopt 3DS titles??
I always figured the Miiverse communities for Mario Kart 7, Kid Icarus Uprising, and X&Y would be phenomenal..
I refuse to believe that his will be the case. No way they worked almost 6 months longer than the web version for something like that. 3DS already supports screenshots like they work on Animal Crossing New Leaf. All that is left is to connect that to Miiverse. SURELY they could manage that. As for some other Miiverse functions. Who knows. I'd still like to be hopeful with this.
We really don't know how MiiVerse on 3DS will work. Presumably, it will be its own app. But we don't know if you'll be able to access it in game like you can on WiiU.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
What exactly is building up? I'm confused. Couldn't it just be because "Nintendo 2DS" is confusing?
Oh, beaten.
vagabondarts
Member
I bet we hear about it this spring
Vyse The Legend
Member
A successor to the 3DS? You'd be wrong. Very wrong.
Yeah, they wouldn't have any software ready for that system.
Vyse The Legend
Member
There's also no reason for them to do it, like none at all. We are still a few more 3ds variants away from a nextgen handheld.
Make this post again in 2017, and you might be up to something.
JB2448
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Jaded Alyx
Member
Again, where are people seeing these notifications? I haven't seen a single one.
They have already said that it will be like Wii U's Miiverse. They have also said that not everyone of the already released titles will support it. I'm assuming third party publishers would have to do some extra work to make their games compatible. And I wouldn't expect top hits like Steel Diver to be supporting it either (why? lol).
@Riki specifically: Why wouldn't you be able to access it in-game? All it does is open an app that connects to the web and displays a web-page specifically designed for the system. The 3DS can already use the internet browser while you game and you can look at a still shot from the game you are playing while you're in the "notes" app in the home menu. All they need to do is have a 3DS section in Miiverse and 3DS games automatically access those and then allow for posting of those stills in there.
They just have to bring the separate parts together.
Am I the only one thinking this is a horrible idea?
Even though there is the whole 2DS/3DS thing, by removing the console names from each individual page, you lose market awareness. Someone comments on Wii U post, then it shares across their friendlist that they posted in something about Wii U. Nintendo Console Gaming doesn't have that
I simply have full doubts. I know it functions as a webpage, and it should be easy enough to get done. But sometimes Nintendo can be weird on these things.
RAM. Have you tried to load pages with many images? It will take forever, and then on top of that it will not load all images. It's UI will need to be scaled down by a lot.
The 3DS has a terrible browser in general, and is piss poor compared to the Wii U which is really good as an HTML5 browser.
lol
True, to be fair, though, the 3DS browser has gotten a lot better since one of the last FW updates. I can actually use it to read a little if necessary and the image posting site also works okay-ish.
If they make the thumbnails small enough it should be okay. Not every post has a picture added, too.
Miiverse isn't Google Drive. The 3DS browser it's more than good enough for a mobile version of Miiverse website. Mobile GAF isn't that much different and works very well on it. Nintendo is the one hosting the images, so they them simply generate lower resolutions of them.
Yea, it definitely has improved and is in a much more usable state. Yea, the UI will most likely be done to suit the 3DS.
I do wonder why they blocked the 3DS web browser from using the existing Miiverse website.
I'd love, love, love to use Miiverse. I have no Wii U but I will definitely buy a 2DS. But come ON Nintendo, a UNIVERSAL ACCOUNT SYSTEM, tied to your Club Nintendo account (in territories that have Club Nintendo), is SORELY needed. I will no longer be buying any digital titles until this is fixed. So come on Nintendo, do what we have asked you REPEATEDLY to do and FIX THIS.