Nintendo kills Nintendo Letter Box Spotpass features due to “Offensive Material”

Nintendo has permanently disabled the SpotPass functionality within the Nintendo Letter Box application (Swapnote in the US).

With the SpotPass features gone it basically makes the app useless as without SpotPass you won’t be able to send anyone, anything.

Nintendo has issued the following statement explaining why it’s done this.  “Nintendo has learned that some consumers, including minors, have been exchanging their friend codes on Internet bulletin boards and then using Swapnote to exchange offensive material.”

“Nintendo always wants to provide a positive experience for all consumers and limit the risk of any inappropriate activity or misuse of a service. We feel it is important on this occasion to take this action.”

While the majority of users have been using the service for good, Nintendo obviously couldn’t stop some bad eggs from abusing the system.

Now there is no way on the Nintendo 3DS for owners to communicate with each other, hopefully the impending Miiverse launch will help that.

We hope Nikki finds work in the future as well.

How do you feel about this? Did you use Nintendo Letter Box in a big way? Let us know what you think in the comments.