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Oh deKay. You insane Nintendo fanboy.

Eh? Can you not see that it works for both types of user? For parents who just want Jimmy and his friend Tommy to play Mario Kart, it just works and is "safe" (you have to swap NNIDs *outside of the system*, like friend codes, and activate each other's before the connection is made). For adults who can cope with swearing and pictures of cocks, it works just like it does on the 360 (where you can send anyone a friend request and it the other person can accept it and the connection is made).

I genuinely think it's marvellous and fixes Nintendo's "problem" with online safety.

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deerokus

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The streetpass relay system definitely doesn't work right. If I go to a relay point 99.9% of the streetpasses I get are people from England. I live in Scotland. Gives away that the people at these relays haven't passed by the place you are in at all. Before this system was introduced I would get a nice mix of people from different places, sometimes you could even kind of almost recognise people you had seen. Now it might as well just be randomly generated people. I seem to get almost no 'regular' streetpasses now when previously I would get plenty.

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Well no, but I was directly responding to "given that Nintendo managed to launch the Wii U with two different methods of adding friends (codes and IDs)"

Oh. :(

Regarding streetpassing, I've noticed this too. Being in London I'd usually get a massive spread of nationalities, it was great. Especially with me saying my daft comment at them and them replying with the usual 'hola' 'hei' 'allo' etc. :) Now I just get loads of, well.. us! Bah. :(

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I do get what you're saying but equally it shouldn't have been that hard for Nintendo to get something like this ready on release. I mean, you're already tying your 3ds (along with its friend code) to your nnid so why can't they have just gone through your friend list and allowed you to do an auto add or something? I'm tired myself of moaning at Nintendo but they are just constantly :facepalm: it's no wonder people get fed up.

The first person who updated would have seen nobody else, and then would have been stuck with a list of friends codes for people who were slowly moving over to NNIDs with no way to associate them.

In a few months, when they can be sure that anyone who connects their 3DS to the Internet has a NNID, they can start to change the way that works. Hopefully.

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The streetpass relay system definitely doesn't work right. If I go to a relay point 99.9% of the streetpasses I get are people from England. I live in Scotland. Gives away that the people at these relays haven't passed by the place you are in at all. Before this system was introduced I would get a nice mix of people from different places, sometimes you could even kind of almost recognise people you had seen. Now it might as well just be randomly generated people. I seem to get almost no 'regular' streetpasses now when previously I would get plenty.

Agree, I was really enjoying getting 3 to 7 hits a day when single hit relay was originally set up with many of them regulars who were more useful in Puzzle Quest and Manor. It was always a bit exciting if you got someone from far away. Now I get more hits, 20 today! but they are almost all randoms. Seems to be a pattern to the ones it gives me too, roughly 7 from England, a couple from other regions in the UK and maybe one from the USA/ Japan in each set of 10. I seem to be getting a lot less animal crossing hits too which is crap.

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The first person who updated would have seen nobody else, and then would have been stuck with a list of friends codes for people who were slowly moving over to NNIDs with no way to associate them.

In a few months, when they can be sure that anyone who connects their 3DS to the Internet has a NNID, they can start to change the way that works. Hopefully.

Why be levelheaded when there's face palm gifs and expletives to post, Xev?

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Eh? Can you not see that it works for both types of user? For parents who just want Jimmy and his friend Tommy to play Mario Kart, it just works and is "safe" (you have to swap NNIDs *outside of the system*, like friend codes, and activate each other's before the connection is made). For adults who can cope with swearing and pictures of cocks, it works just like it does on the 360 (where you can send anyone a friend request and it the other person can accept it and the connection is made).

I genuinely think it's marvellous and fixes Nintendo's "problem" with online safety.

Erm yeah well. I think we have a misunderstanding here. Never mind.

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pinholestar

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My 3DS XL (it's bloody huge!) & a selection of the finest software arrived yesterday. :D

I claimed my free copy of Mario 3D Land & thought it was only right that it should be the first game that I played on it. Paddy Considine's brutally violent & depressing Tyrannosaur was on the TV in the background at the time & it was a quite bizarre contrast as I really had forgotten the pure, unbridled, innocent joy that Nintendo games possess. Although I'm sure the 3D effect's novelty will wear off after a time, at the moment I'm still in awe of this perfectly-formed little world of brightly-coloured magic that I'm peering into.

Had a quick blast on Fire Emblem, which looked brilliant & I've still got Zelda, Pokémon & a load of others just sat there waiting to be explored too. It's gonna keep me entertained for most of 2014, I should think.

It's been over 5 years since I sold my Wii but fuck, it's an absolute joy to be back in the Nintendo fold :wub:

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