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3DS firmware update adds StreetPass relay support

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Nintendo has pushed up a new system update for the Nintendo 3DS which adds support for the StreetPass Relay feature.

You’ll now be able to StreetPass with people at at Nintendo Zone Spots, you won’t actually have to be there at the same time as another person. Instead the spot will remember the last person and then you’ll StreetPass with them. The next person will get you.

This new StreetPass Relay will be great in countries and regions that are less densely populated. So basically everywhere but Japan.

We’ve contacted Nintendo Australia to ask if this feature is coming to Australia in some form or another as we don’t have Nintendo Zone spots.

The update also makes ‘further improvements to overall system stability’ just like usual too.

Update: Nintendo Australia have got back to us with the “We don’t have anything to announce at this time” line. Considering we don’t have Nintendo Zone spots our solution may take longer to implement. We’ll bug them again in a couple of weeks if we don’t hear anything.

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8 Comments
  • LucaNatoli
    August 6, 2013 at 2:10 pm

    Got all excited, until i read that Australia, yet again, is given the shaft.
    You know what Nintendo. No wonder you are loosing sales and getting a bad rep. This is stupid, you do not support the little people, we make up a lot of your sales, so why not show some love. Or at least do what the Vita system has and have a Near application.

  • August 6, 2013 at 2:41 pm

    I’m one of the lucky ones that lives in a capital city (Brisbane). I get tons of street passes when I walk around the CBD. I always have my 3DS with me when I go to the city.

  • 99 lives
    August 6, 2013 at 5:20 pm

    I actually have the Nintendo Zone application on my 3DS, it downloaded over SpotPass when I was on a holiday to Europe, it downloaded in London.

  • Franpa
    August 6, 2013 at 5:58 pm

    Let me know when they make it possible to reconfigure the buttons for Virtual Console games like you can on the Wii U.

    I loathe the exclusive use of the A & B buttons for GB/GBC/GBA games, would be infinitely superior if we could set it to use Y & B or X & A instead.

    Oh and 2 buttons to access the Virtual Console Menu? Really? I find myself frequently triggering that by mistake because of the dumb button layout (Yes, it’s the same layout those systems used, but still…). Just have Select access the menu, no need for 2 buttons o_O

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