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It's not unusual for services meant for innocent activities to end up being used for...not so innocent activities. Such was the case with Nintendo's Swapnote SpotPass feature, a messaging system that ...

Nintendo’s CEO Satoru Iwata has announced to investors that the new Nintendo 3DS portable games console will use sleep-WiFi functionality, SpotPass, to deliver and install automatic firmware updates.

The 3DS's StreetPass feature maximises the console's portability by offering interactive features with no user input required, but Nintendo hasn't ignored the machine ...

Nintendo has axed the SpotPass feature of its 3DS messaging system after finding minors exchanged "offensive material". Nintendo said some consumers, including minors, were found to have exchanged ...

Nintendo has canned the ability for users to exchange messages via SpotPass on 3DS messaging service Swapnote (Nintendo Letter Box in Europe), saying that people were actively misusing the feature.

After closing its 3DS and Wii U eShops earlier this year, Nintendo will shut down online services for those consoles in "early April 2024," it announced. That will put a halt to multiplayer features, ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Nintendo just turned off one of the online features of the 3DS, seemingly forever, deactivating the online support for its note-sharing SwapNote ...

Nintendo Letter Box on 3DS - or Swapnote in other regions - has seen its online SpotPass functionality suspended. The firm revealed that it discovered some users, including minors, were exchanging ...

Nintendo announced a partnership with the retail chain Best Buy today, to offer 3DS wireless access and SpotPass content. Roughly 1,000 Best Buy stores across the US will be outfitted with the WiFi ...

Fire Emblem: Awakening has DLC maps available through its "Outrealm Gate." But there's also extra content coming to the strategy game for free, through the 3DS' SpotPass download service. Today, you ...