Nintendo Universe writes:
Ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games kicking off today, SEGA have distributed a message to 3DS owners through Nintendo Letter Box.
Sometimes speculation happens to be right; though this time people will wish the speculation was wrong. It was reported earlier that Nintendo suspended the Swapnote SpotPass sharing services due to vaguely labeled “offensive materials” being shared over Nintendo’s systems. It didn’t take long for reports of nefarious happenings by predators using this service and other Nintendo online offerings began springing up around gaming forums. Unfortunately it seems that they weren’t just rumor, and in at least two major cases has turned out to be very true.
Oh wow! How come I never hear about this on any other console? I still think Nintendo should go by their parental controls instead of trying to be the world police. ;)
Oh them friends codes really kept the kids safe -_-
So can we have real screen names now Ninty?!?!?!
"On October 31, Nintendo suddenly announced it was ending its SwapNote service for the 3DS. Nintendo said SwampNote had been "actively misused" to transmit "offensive material" among system users, including minors. Now we know how offensive and unsettling some of that that material was."
-Brian Ashcraft
This is why we cant have nice things. Disgusted no wonder they suspended the service.
who cares if they're stupid enough to do something like that well thats there problem dont freakin cancel the app just block users... honestly a really stupid situation...i still cant believe young girls are just that stupid
I'm not sure you understand what "blaming the victim" means, because you're still doing it.
Here ya go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
As Nintendo clarifies the Swapnote situation to 3DS owners via email, a petition has been created to bring it back.
Nintendo isn't doing any good by getting rid of Swapnote. It's not like kids don't have the internet or phones to send crudely drawn pictures of boobs and dicks to each other (and I shudder thinking about Snap Chat), so why punish all the people who legitimately enjoyed using the app for something that's potentially bad that can be done EVERYWHERE else?