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Nintendo to bring Miiverse app to phones this spring

Nintendo spent a lot of time talking about the Miiverse in today's Nintendo Direct promising updates and new features in the near future. It also announced work on a new Miiverse app for smartphones that would allow people stay connected to the community while on the go.
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Nintendo spent a lot of time talking about the Miiverse in today's Nintendo Direct promising updates and new features in the near future. It also announced a new Miiverse app for smartphones, detailed back in June, would be coming this spring.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said that Miiverse will be expanding to include user created communities, and more than one official community for games. He also promised new usability features and filters so comments don't get lost so quickly in the Miiverse stream of consciousness. He also said that the upcoming Pikmin 3 would allow the Wii U GamePad to act as a camera to take pictures of the game and allow players to upload images directly to Miiverse.

Not much was said about the upcoming app, other than it will basically be a Miiverse browser with more functionality coming later.

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    January 23, 2013 7:00 AM

    John Keefer posted a new article, Nintendo to bring Miiverse app to smart phones.

    Nintendo spent a lot of time talking about the Miiverse in today's Nintendo Direct promising updates and new features in the near future. It also announced work on a new Miiverse app for smartphones that would allow people stay connected to the community while on the go.

    • snubble100 legacy 10 years
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      January 23, 2013 7:09 AM

      Would it be too much to ask for a windows phone version? :P

      • one random winner legacy 10 years
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        January 23, 2013 8:44 AM

        They just need some market share first.

        • Grape Flavor legacy 10 years
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          January 23, 2013 4:09 PM

          But they need to have more apps to help increase their marketshare! Chicken and the egg.

          • timmie legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury super mega
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            January 23, 2013 4:46 PM

            They have plenty of apps. What they need is more of the "big" apps so people don't feel like they're missing out moving to the WP platform.

    • rtricoche legacy 10 years
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      January 23, 2013 7:32 AM

      This is GREAT news. The Miiverse is a fantastic concept and the more they polish it the better it is for not only Nintendo and the WiiU but gamers from all platforms. This is definitely a game changer.

      • [deleted] 1167568288 legacy 10 years
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        January 23, 2013 7:57 AM

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      • one random winner legacy 10 years
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        January 23, 2013 8:47 AM

        I wonder if they're going to require it be tied to a Wii U account or not, if not they could be inviting a ton of vitrol onto the Miiverse.

        • Grape Flavor legacy 10 years
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          January 23, 2013 8:16 PM

          I imagine it will be tied to your Nintendo Network account which will be shared between you Wii U and 3DS, assuming you have both devices.

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