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Miiverse, Nintendo Network ID Now on 3DS

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You should be excited about Miiverse launching on 3DS last night. Miiverse is the most underrated feature of Wii U, one that's largely overlooked because it’s been locked into a system few people have.

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But now Miiverse is on 3DS, thanks to a system update that went live for the handheld last night.

Nintendo has also introduced Nintendo Network ID onto 3DS, which means your 3DS and Wii U are now linked in a few ways. Friends lists are still sadly separate, but money lives across both platforms. Nintendo now requires a Nintendo Network ID to download from the eShop, too.

Not sure why you should begin browsing Miiverse immediately? Let me present a few examples from the brilliant Twitter account @BadMiiversePosts.

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Will there be penises?

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Cool! "Ole Saint Nicholas" is bringing me a 3DS soon. Glad they're adding this. I'm assuming you can draw with the 3DS stylus?

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It's a tad bit slow from what i've tried so far but i love that you can attach screenshots

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Pooping #mypoopdoesntstink

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Nintendo finally enters the 21st century!

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Most huggable and heart-wrenching Miiverse post ever (about new Mario game):

"This game is fun my mom and dad have been fighting a lot"

:'(

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OH SWEET I've been waiting for this. I get to make a Nintendo Network ID too? I'm getting a Wii U for Christmas, so I should be able to access it there later, right?

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aww yeah I am going to post the stupidest shit

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So weird. Just bought my 3DS yesterday and had a TERRIBLE time with everything down for maintenance before the update hit.

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I just finished singing up for this, but there are only like 10 game communities. They are all games that I don't own, so I guess I don't really get the point of the Miiverse if it's only for super new games.

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I hope they keep making these 2 devices work together even more. I would pay for a remote play app that lets me run 3ds games/virtual console titles on my wii u. That, or say use my 3ds xl as a wii u controller.

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In the near future they will probably add a Majora's Mask emote icon.

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I'm glad it's gonna be on a more active console now. I think I may be receiving a 3DS with Pokemon Y this Christmas.

Any recommendations on games? Less obvious ones anyways. Already looking at the Mario games and Luigis mansion.

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Miiverse > Swapnote

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OH SWEET I've been waiting for this. I get to make a Nintendo Network ID too? I'm getting a Wii U for Christmas, so I should be able to access it there later, right?

I certainly hope they've fixed that by now, if you remember the Wii U launch stream Brad and Patrick created accounts on the same machine, and then it turned out Brad couldn't log in with the same account on another Wii U, since it had been tied to the first. I really hope they aren't still doing this, having people create a new account for the 3DS instead of using the same for both their Wii U and 3DS.

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Just got my 3ds today! Can't wait to mess with this

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Are they still linking purchases to hardware IDs or the account with that multiplatform implementation?

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@kem2000 said:

I'm glad it's gonna be on a more active console now. I think I may be receiving a 3DS with Pokemon Y this Christmas.

Any recommendations on games? Less obvious ones anyways. Already looking at the Mario games and Luigi's Mansion.

The obvious games are the best games. I really, REALLY loved that new Zelda game. Mario 3D Land is great, and Animal Crossing is the game I've poured the most time into. Beyond that there are some niche titles that you'll have to decide on personally. I picked up Fire Emblem and see why it's great but haven't played it much. You might consider Etrian Odyssey IV, Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright, Pushmo, or SteamWorld Dig.

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Sad that not every game has a community as of right now. I wonder if they're going to change that, or if other publishers didn't care enough to allow that feature for their older titles.

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Pretty excellent timing. I just got my XL in the mail today.

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Where should the GB community navigate too? Is there Funky Barn for the 3DS?

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Where should the GB community navigate too? Is there Funky Barn for the 3DS?

It should just be whatever the shittiest game is that no-one bought.

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@minivan said:

Friends still separate? Ugh Nintendo what are you doing?

It took them 8 years to finally have an online system without friend codes. 9 years to have a single user ID. It'll take them even longer to think of the tiny things companies have been getting right for ages. They're slow and arrogant.

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Sad that not every game has a community as of right now. I wonder if they're going to change that, or if other publishers didn't care enough to allow that feature for their older titles.

I hope so, I only really buy older titles.

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Next up: Miichievements? Achieve-mii-nts?

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@minivan: They need to work out the conflict of the current 3DS friend system and NNIDs on the 3DS. Miiverse on 3DS recognizes Wii U friends.

One step at a time. Changing everything wholesale at once would lead to far more potential issues.

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Say what you will about Nintendo, but the Miiverse is maybe the most inviting community for gamers that I've ever seen.

So for it to come to 3DS is fantastic.

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My 3DS being now my only official gateway into the Miiverse... I gotta say it ain't great. I suppose the Miiverse you access on the 3DS is just some form of the 3DS web browser that is on it, because it is slooooow. But I was now able to sign up for Nintendo ID, so I guess I could just check the actual web browser version since that's actually quick to load.

Also if those smartphone apps they announced for it to ever come out I'm sure they'd be a much better experience than the 3DS.

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who wants to be my miiverse friend?

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Brilliant. Now I have two places to post the dumbest of drawings.

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Heck yes! Updating that bad boy.

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Awesome, even less reason to own a Wii U now!

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Just got a LOZ 3DS XL. Best console purchase I've made in 6 years.

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@shaanyboi said:

Sad that not every game has a community as of right now. I wonder if they're going to change that, or if other publishers didn't care enough to allow that feature for their older titles.

I hope so, I only really buy older titles.

They say they're going to be adding communities as they go, so we'll see.

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Ninners missed the boat on Mii's I reckon. If done well your character should look like something out of the Mario universe or the like, instead if this poorly generated bubble figure? Even though they were unoriginal and kinda dorky I do think Xbox should have kept their avatars as well.

"You can drag a horse to water...(console makers) but you can't force them to drink"

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8 sentences, 1 picture, and 3 tweets. Good article.

Anyways, are purchases still locked to the system they were bought on (unless you do a system transfer) or with NNID on 3DS is that now being moved to the account level?

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8 sentences, 1 picture, and 3 tweets. Good article.

Anyways, are purchases still locked to the system they were bought on or with NNID on 3DS is that now being moved to the account level?

Yep, still locked to the system. The account-level purchasing hasn't been implemented yet.

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I realize this is something that won't affect a LOT of people, but I was kind of surprised by it: if you have money in the 3DS eShop in multiple currencies, it will *delete all other money, nonrefundable* when you do the conversion, so make sure to spend any money outside your home country first.

(In my case, it's because I live in Canada, but my mom lives in the States, and buys me gift cards for holidays. So I had both Canada and US eShop money.)

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I just finished singing up for this, but there are only like 10 game communities. They are all games that I don't own, so I guess I don't really get the point of the Miiverse if it's only for super new games.

They'll open communities for older and less popular games later. Can't flood it with a hundred+ communities all at once.

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Say what you will about Nintendo, but the Miiverse is maybe the most inviting community for gamers that I've ever seen.

So for it to come to 3DS is fantastic.

That's because its easily the most heavily moderated community.

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Miiverse is cool but I was most excited about the L+R to activate camera change. I lost count of the number of times I accidentally activated the camera