^Nintendo has always been like that. This is the same company that didn't allow blood in Mortal Kombat until there was a huge backlash against them censoring it.
Y'know, if the parents would monitor their child's activity in the first place, then this shit wouldn't even happen. But of course they're just so helpless; they can't control their fucking 8/10 year old. They just sit back while their kid is hearing/seeing/doing this shit. And so then they start depending on big ass companies like Nintendo to monitor what their kids watch. Fucking lazy parenting. I never really realized how old I was, but it turns out modern parents are even worse than the goddamn hippies of the 1960s.Holy shit dude how old are you? If you're so worried about "your" "10 year old" seeing crudely drawn dicks, then you should probably pull him out of school, because, newsflash, 10 year olds are constantly yelling about balls and drawing dicks on shit. If you think that the possibility of children seeing inappropriate things warrants taking a service down, you should probably get rid of your internet, phone service, mailbox, tv, radio, and your child's eyes. There are significantly better ways to fix this problem, like making sure your fucking kid isn't adding random strangers on their DS, using parental controls, or just, you know, monitoring your kid's electronics usage instead of demanding that the entire world act like a fucking babysitter. Jesus christ.
If anything this serves as a nice reminder that Nintendo is in the toy business these days with a minor pandering to gamers.
Okay, I don't get this AT ALL. How the fuck can nintendo even think that they are responsible? It's not like phone companies or ISP's are responsible for what their users phone, mail, sms, skype, twitter, instagram, whatsapp, .... to each other, right?
I can get why they don't want to continue support it, but blaming it on jerks or children is just wrong.
Actually...with this move, they DO give the impression that they are responsible. And not in a mild suggestive way either. On the contrary: they downright claim to take responsibility.It's not that nintendo feels like they are responsible for this type of content.
They just don't want to give the impression to their customer base that they are.
I'll admit parents of young children are their main sales target, but this statement is overstepping it wildly (if you have proof, I'm very interested in reading it).Nintendo has put forth a lot of effort to ensure that parents believe that nintendo makes a good electronic babysitter.
There will always be this sort of situations. And there are plenty of ways to avoid this* without shutting down the service entirely. Parental locking or removing it with the next firmware upgrade but having it free of charge in the eshop would work just as well.That is all underminded once a typical parent looks down at their 5 year olds' "nintendo" and sees curse words and
penis pictures. The parent isn't going to care that this "offensive" material was posted by another user and not directly
by nintendo. All they care about is that their child was looking at curse words and penises on "the nintendo" and they
will tell all of their friends and co-workers about all of the "smut" they found on "the nintendo" because that's a lot
more interesting to talk about than what happened on american idol the night before.
At least this is better than going on XBLA's Uno and see penises everywhere.Nintendo confirmed for five year old children!
I'm guessing pedophilia was involved here. Maybe not actively between adults and youth but probably youth exchanging with youth like sexting which is illegal at least as far as I know in the US and the UK.
This sucks because I had a couple people I would exchange gaming related photos with and had a blast doing so. Always takes some idiot kids to mess up something good. Oops.. look where I am.
These services were shutdown at 7:00 PM on October 31, 2013, in all regions.
Damn, that article is hilarious.Why not just add Miiverse type offensive image detection? It's a bit of an overreaction, but then again, Nintendo does have a large user base of underaged kids. Swapnote is probably the only place they'll ever see offensive material on the internet
Kurisu: Ahem, uh. Some users would take to drawing penises.
Everyone: (laughs)
Kurisu: Well, it’s true. It seems to be more of a phenomenon found in the west.