App Supporting 3DS Tethering With Mobile Confirmed for Japan

I thought this was much needed. I'm sure this will come in handy with smash.
I dint think I'll use it much I'd it comes west to conserve my mobile data. I also have a galaxy s4.

Smart thing to do

What exactly does the app do? doesn't all smartphones already come with the ability to become a hot spot and after that the 3DS can connect as with any other wireless connection..... what's the added value of the app? and what's different about being a mobile hotspot for the 3DS than for any other device?

Cool. But if it makes it to the north, I won't get it. I have an IPhone.

Awesome, except that all UK mobile companies ban the use of tethering in their T+C's. I guess we won't see it come out over here then. sigh

Isn't this quite useless? Most of the modern mobilephones make it really easy to share internet connection with other devices.

If you need a dedicated app to help you do that, just trade in both devices and take up knitting...

...So Japan doesn't already have tethering?

Use the app to supply streetpass hits, like the relays

Oh great, I'm going to be playing people that are using 3g? It's barely enough for just a phone then alone adding a 3ds too. This could be bad but we'll see.

@Spoony_Tech What exactly does this do? I'm confused.

@PrincessEevee9 It's pretty simple actually. You can use your phone's WiFi to connect your 3ds to. Problem is 3g is still used In a lot of areas and it just might be to slow to work right for the 3ds.

@kiz3000 not all, O2 don't, in fact they encourage it. Mobil online gaming is the way forward. I've played many a round of MK7 using 4g on my phone.

@Liquid_ice @ferthepoet OMG! LOOOOOT OF PEOPLE JUST KNOW HOW TO CHAT in their phone!
guys please!

@Spoony_Tech believe me, 3g is not a problem in japan

I would consider it if there was an iOS version. It would save having to turn on tethering when connecting to the estore

@mercurio2054 What? This doesn't have anything to do with chatting.

Okay, I'm gonna spill the beans here... just rename your wifi to _The Cloud and you get Streetpasses from your very own Nintendo Zone. - and it works with passwords, don't worry. So put your phones back already.

Please add serviceability for iPhone in North America

I highly doubt this will make it to north america, our carriers like to squeeze us for every last penny we have, especially when it comes to tethering. Good thing I installed cfw on my phone so I can tether anyways

This will be GREAT for MH4G and the Pokemon games. Not sure if it's worth it for anything else really....

It isn't hard to flip a switch to turn on your hotspot. I have an iPhone, and you just go to settings and it's the first thing you see. Why should I download an app?

Neat.

I'm sure it's been mentioned already in these comments, but when I'm really determined to keep my 3DS connected to the online world I just connect it to my phone's hotspot, but meh, I'm not against a "supposed" better way to connect online.

I'm sorry, but this will just eat through your data like a monster with a bottomless pit for a stomach. The constant upload and download from the 3DS while playing games will gobble through a GB of data easy.

The only network I could see this working on is EE/Orange with unlimited Data, which is still capped to about 50GB or something, with a 4G network which is only in the major cities in the UK at the moment.

This is a horrible idea.

It almost never works on my iPhone 5. If they bring out an iOS version I would be happy if it were to work reliably. iOS version please, Nintendo?!

@Chris720

Personally, I would only really use it when on a trip for an extended time, which is about twice a year for me. I can understand your concern though.

I wonder if I can so that on my iphone probably

@Spoony_Tech Ah.

@Kiz3000 Darn it

@Liquid_ice eeeee ... if some one just know how to open whatsapp it will be complicated to him to use the internet hotspot option in the cellphone.

@mercurio2054 I think creating a Google account, downloading an application, maybe changing some settings in it, and learning to use the app is at least as complicated as using a mobilephone as a mobile Wi-Fi.

Why does this announcement seem bothersome to me?

@Chris720 unless you are downloading a full game from the store, just playing a game online actually doesn't up all that much data, no where near as much as say watching a video on YouTube would use. It's your ping and response times of your connection that affect your gaming, not download and upload limits. It obviously depends on the game, but either way even the most data intensive game won't use much of your data. Playing online is just sending bits of code to the other players, it's not a huge file like a video. EDIT: actually just looked it up and if you play online it would be the equivalent of loading a single average Web page for an hour or so of average online gaming, so playing online will barely affect your data cap as long as you aren't downloading games.

@rylo151 +1

And that average above was for gaming on consoles, would probably be even less on a 3ds game without voice chat etc.

UK mobile providers only block tethering if you're on an iphone (because you obviously like spending lots of money anyway) and even then only some do. Ive played MK7 for an hour over HSDPA on my phone and its not been laggy and barely hurt my data cap, connection type will effect everything though, still, i cant see why a separate app is needed particularly for android devices.

@rylo151 That would still be around 100-250MB... I think? Which isn't all that bad, but I still wouldn't advise it really... Downloading games will of course kill your data pretty quickly considering most games on the 3DS are at least 500MB onwards, not to mention the download speeds on 3G would be horrendous anyway.

I have a mobile for tethering, but I want to try that app. Unfortunately I have no device which can download the app... Thoose recommendations are a little stupid... Why do they only support a few number of devices? Does anybody has the .apk file for a manual instal?

@Chris720 it would barely use 50mb an hour at most unless you are playing an mmo or something. but yeah you are more likely to blow your data cap browsing facebook. ive played pc games off of 3g before, it isnt as bad as it sounds and will surely not affect a 3ds game as much as long as you have adequate cell reception.

@Spoony_Tech Can confirm, not an issue. I've been playing Smash 3DS on 2g. Now, I'll admit it's just a throttled speed from 4g LTE (and it's around double as fast as it should be) if you're concerned about bandwith it's sufficient. Yes, I know you posted this over 2 years ago, but I had to say that.

Also Spore is fun