Flipnote Studio 3D Now Available To Download For US Club Nintendo Members

Speak for yourself. I like to animate and I dont really care about the community, Its nice. but I have other outlets for people to see my work

I’m surprised MiiVerse hasn’t been taken down already xD

The only people to blame are Nintendo with that. It isn’t a gaming companies responsibility to raise children for their parents. This kind of stuff is going to happen regardless if a kid has a 3DS or not.

If you actually read the story, you’d know these kids broke the parental locks in order to do this. Which means they had to have had a computer or a smartphone to do this, which also means they were already talking to these people on either. It was even said in one of the incidents that the girl was already talking to these men in an online forum before hand.

So the 3DS being a small part of this, really didn’t make a damn difference. These kids were at least smart enough to know they could look online to unlock the parental controls. So even if they couldn’t communicate or send pictures on their 3DS, they would do it some other way, on a phone or computer. It would not have made any difference.

It’s a slippery slope because even with the best parenting, sometimes your child can just be a little shit no matter what you do. Even with good information given, sometimes you just cannot stop a child from doing something stupid, that’s life. Unless you lock them in a room and monitor their every movement 24/7, they will most likely get into some trouble every now and then.

Nintendo is also stupidly restrictive about certain things, then they don’t even bother with others, which makes no sense at all. You can add people easily on the Wii U, but then on the 3DS, it is a total pain the ass.. Both could have children playing them.. So how does that make sense again?

In Animal Crossing you can add virtually anyone or talk to anyone on the islands, through Club Tortimer. So why are they going to remove something like Swapnote, but then still let kids just talk to anyone in Animal Crossing pretty much? Cause let’s face it, most parents probably have no idea their kids can even do that in a game like Animal Crossing. I know most young girls, that is literally their favorite 3DS game as well. To make matter worse, more children play that game period. Yet Nintendo hasn’t stripped down those features.

The same thing could play out as with those other incidents. So why even bother? Like I said, even without the 3DS, these kids will find a way. I know I was a little sneaky rascal when I was younger, and if I wanted to do something, I’d figure it out. My parents weren’t bad either by any means, but they can’t watch you every single second of your life.

I feel if Nintendo is going to try and be the parental guardians of gaming, then apply it to every aspect of your games and systems. Don’t just half ass it on one system, then treat the other differently, or allow to leave certain features in games that could lead to the same exact outcome with Swapnote.

I can’t stand when everyone else is punished because of a few people who made some poor choices.. I could understand if it was some huge issue on Swapnote, and the only thing people were sending each other were nude pictures but it wasn’t. Yes, it is a very unfortunate situation, sadly it’s a situation that can’t be avoided and could have easily be done without any 3DS’s at all.

So removing Swapnote made no difference, it didn’t make the world any safer of a place. There are still plenty of children at this moment I even write this, probably getting into a lot of trouble or doing things with adults they clearly know they shouldn’t be doing.