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Miiverse was an official Nintendo community in which players of games on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U could share their experiences online, often with support for taking in-game screenshots for many games.
Miiverse featured its own "communities" for each compatible game, in which users could post their own content.
Miiverse was originally created for use with the Wii U console, but a later software update for the Nintendo 3DS added support for Miiverse so that Nintendo 3DS players could also share their experiences, draw/post artwork, and share screenshots. The user could also choose from a variety of expressions on their Mii to go alongside the message they had posted.
In addition to accessing it from a Wii U or Nintendo 3DS, Miiverse could also be accessed from a computer provided that the user had a Nintendo Network account.
In the official announcement for Miiverse, Nintendo introduced the "Yeah" button similar to the "Like" button, and this was implied as a means of expressing empathy for relatable experiences.
In addition to posts from the general public, various game developers have also shared posts such as interviews. One of the most well known examples was arguably Masuhiro Sakurai's (director of Super Smash Bros.) Director's Room posts, about the then upcoming Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.
Relevance to the The Legendary Starfy series
Since the Game Boy Advance series of Legendary Starfy games were re-released on Japan's Wii U Virtual Console, Nintendo created Miiverse communities for Densetsu no Starfy, Densetsu no Starfy 2 and Densetsu no Starfy 3.
Since then a large number of posts have been published on these communities, including much fan artwork.
Curiously, while the titles of the Densetsu no Starfy and Densetsu no Starfy 3 communities were in kanji and katakana, the title of the Densetsu no Starfy 2 community was the romanized Japanese "Densetsu no Stafy 2". The significance of this is unknown, although there were other Japan-only titles with romanized names as well, such as the Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru and Trade & Battle: Card Hero community (with at least the latter being romanized as such before).
Closure
The Miiverse service was terminated by Nintendo on November 7, 2017 at 10PM Pacific Time. According to Nintendo they closed the service because they felt they achieved success with the service and had the opinion that many users are "shifting to social network services".[1]
Backups of users' old Miiverse posts were offered for people by email as a download so that they could still access them.
External links
- Densetsu no Starfy community (dead link, redirects to closure notice).
- Densetsu no Starfy 2 community (dead link, redirects to closure notice).
- Densetsu no Starfy 3 community (dead link, redirects to closure notice).
