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Will version 6.3.0-12E rock your world?

If you haven't fired up your 3DS in the last 24 hours, a surprise may await — it's an all-new system update! Those cheeky scamps at Nintendo have once again been working on the following changes to your beloved handheld.

  • System stability improvements and other adjustments.

Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user's experience.

Once downloaded this update takes seconds to install, and we sometimes wonder whether "system stability improvements and other adjustments" really means "closing loopholes that naughty hackers may stumble across". Either way, and a joking tone aside, it's good to see Nintendo keeping active in updating firmware, especially as the feature-set and performance of the 3DS has come a long way since its launch in March 2011.

The update doesn't have anything thrilling like Nintendo Network IDs and Miiverse for the 3DS, unfortunately, but that will hopefully still arrive in the coming weeks or months. We still await the next big Wii U update, of course, which promises new features and improved performance; it wouldn't surprise us if that contains some goodies worthy of a Nintendo Direct.

We shall see, but until then all 3DS owners can bask in the glow of stability improvements. Lovely, lovely stability.



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Still waiting on Miiverse and IDs. Don't even mention Hulu Plus... That was supposed to be out by Dec 2012.



I hate pirates, we people who buy all our games legitimately are bothered by system updates because of those parasites (I guess that this update is intended to make the R4-cards unusable and even if this particular update is only there to improve the overall system stability, my point still stands !)



They need to do an update where the games are locked to the account and not the console... None of my Nintendo systems have broken yet but I don't want to lose most of my games the day they do...



                  

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Once miiverse comes out I think games like mario kart and animal crossing will really benefict from it.



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sethnintendo said:
Still waiting on Miiverse and IDs. Don't even mention Hulu Plus... That was supposed to be out by Dec 2012.

They're finally unifying the services?!



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outlawauron said:
sethnintendo said:
Still waiting on Miiverse and IDs. Don't even mention Hulu Plus... That was supposed to be out by Dec 2012.

They're finally unifying the services?!


It is supposed to come out before the end of the year (nothing is confirmed though)

...knowing Nintendo, the update goes probably up on December 31st at 23:55 ...