So, has anyone noticed that the 3DS YouTube application's interface looks suspiciously like the YouTube (modern browser) mobile site? That's because it is, as you'll know already if you read my blog written a day after the app's release. Yes, they were lazy and they just chucked a plugin into a copy of the 3DS browser and wrote a few lines of code for the back/play-pause/display-videos-on-the-top-screen bits, then compiled and uploaded it to the eShop. That's laziness if ever I saw it. Now take the new Miiverse function. It's, again, a copy of the 3DS browser attached to a website. Although this website was a septillion times better than the YouTube mobile website on the 3DS (for starters, it looks, feels and runs like it was actually designed with the 3DS in mind), it just goes to say, Nintendo are getting lazier (that word wasn't in the 3DS's autocomplete (nor was that one) dictionary for some reason). The offline mode feature of the Miiverse app looks like it was actually coded in, but still, that's probably just a HTML page and HTML5 Local Storage. (or a cookie.) It's good that Nintendo (why isn't their own company name in the 3DS autocomplete dictionary?!) are giving us these features, but it feels like they've given us these features because they had to. Flipnote Studio 3D better be pretty good to make up for this laziness. Dear Nintendo: hurry up and give us Flipnote Studio 3D.
So I'll end this jsa/rant here. I'll post a Miiverse 3DS Tech Specs blog soon, but until then,
~jsa/out.