Nintendo Japan announced today that SUICA cards will finally be useable for NFC payment on the Wii U starting July 22nd. What’s interesting is the SUICA website says that you need Wii U firmware version 5.1.0 to be able to use SUICA cards on the Nintendo eShop. We are currently at version 5.0.0. The update is thought to come on Tuesday, but there’s no word whether the update is for Japan only, or whether the west will get it. We should find out in due course along with any other changes the future update may bring.
Thanks, Tony K
Cool! :D I’ve heard of those on Game Grumps
“XBOX not an important part of Microsoft,” says Microsoft president as reported by Forbes. “Microsoft will shut down XBOX Entertainment Studios, 18,000 employees lost jobs, are fired by Microsoft,” reports the Wrap. “Microsoft employees are ‘Shell Shocked’ by the size of the layoffs in Seatlle,” reports Business Insider.
Try running a report on THAT Sickr! Since you’re always running news on the console wars, the truth about XBOX has come out!
Spread it around Nintendo Legion! Let’s get the truth out there for gamers to see!
I will use every weapon and exposure reports available about the Xbots in my future youtube channel to destroy their pathetic wretched species once and for all…
I’m a monster I will eat your brain lol I will infect you with progeria!!!
Hey what’s the word on your gamepad? Did NOE send it back to you yet?
No, apperantely my Gamepad seems to be unique in its defect…
I received word yesterday that they have sent it to a “Special Special Service”…
Commander console right there…
That is a bit too far. People that have families will lose jobs…
Exactly.
The Xbots leaders are handling that perfectly themselves…
Of course Sickr ain’t gonna post anything relevant like that because this site and articles are always targeted for trolls to spread more BS. Sickr himself is probably a troll himself. Pathetic.
Said the troll , strangamyself. Lynch yourself.
“Strangamyself” That’s obviously not my name dude and someone with that would likely be another on of my fan crazed copycats. XD
Lynch myself? Sorry but I’m not third world to understand that dead language. XD
Those jobs are MS wide, the studio that’s shutting down is shutting down to reorganize staff and projects to new areas
Xbox Entertainment is just their TV service and other small things like that. It’s a small victory.
This is NINTENDO news. No need to spark a fire.
Xbox RIP :O
:O http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/17/5912865/microsoft-close-xbox-entertainment-studios-original-programming :O
Thank you for the wonderful news…
One step closer to their inevitable demise…
Faggot.
Bundle of sticks? How’s that “insulting”? XD
At last. :D
Haha, i can smell their flesh burning
No. That’s their shitloads of defective Xbox Ones going kaboom in people’s living rooms. XD
See? Don Mattrick really fucked up the Xbox brand big time but then again, Microsoft has been losing profit from it for years and investors are telling them to get rid of it.
FINALLY! The Xbox Poison days are numbered at last. Why need Xbox when we have PS and PC that offers the same shit but better anyway?
Because options. Lol, not everyone likes Playstation. Just sayin.
Leave the war to the grown ups kid, go and play noobish games, shoo shoo…
Noobish games? Ok, I’m gonna go play Mario Kart 8. Aha!
You complained that it was too hard for your young mind to handle the butthurt you receive from shells and lightning so your argument has been rendered invalid…
*wink*
Yet, I just finished 10 online races and came in 1st in 6 of them. *trollface*
Obviously only grunts, not impressed…
Grunts? None of them had under 2000 VR.
Points doesn’t say anything…
Sigh. I guess I really do suck. Guess I should sell my Wii U and go play an easier game like Call of Duty.
Maybe you should…
Great idea!
It’s a smart card used in Japan so I don’t think it will come here unless Nintendo makes them for westerners.
Hey I saw on nintendos website in the virtual console section that N64 games are coming soon. Have we heard anything about that before?
Hey, we posted this last month. No new news to share http://mynintendonews.com/2014/06/18/nintendo-64-games-coming-soon-according-to-official-wii-u-virtual-console-page/
They should just announce a GCN VC soon and put us out of our agony…
now you can throw monay at it, save the wiiutanic!
Ace, I visited Tokyo last month, still have my Suica card. Wonder if I can use the remaining credit?
This sounds like a smart use for NFC in the Gamepad. Make seamlessly easy payments via NFC technology. This can make the Gamepad use even more beneficial. :) Hope it comes to America compatible with any and all credit/debit cards.
If it does, I’ll never have to bother entering the card number & only have to worry about the pin & security code.
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Lol
I’m hoping it will include “System Transfer” so I can get a Deluxe and give my Basic to my brother, but that’s probably way off.
Or better yet, universal account system like Apple’s so you can sign into any system, grant permission for your account to be accessed by those systems so you can redownload everything you own. But they’re working on that and could take some time to make it happen. Although that should’ve been available and done already.
Wait, what? I thought the other consoles already did this years ago?? ._.
It definitely should have been available day one. Oh well. No point crying over it right now.
if it does come to North America, will it work with mobile wallet apps like Google Wallet and isis?
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