What has happened to my 3DS XL?

[hinn888]

I fully charged my 3DSXL yestersay, everything was working fine.

Today i played NSMB2 and quite out to the home menu where i left it in sleep mode to streetpass

Get home and its doing this, Nothing is loading at all on the bottom screen other than a white line.

Everything still works the same but i cant see anything, sometimes when you press the power button it switches off straight away.

I was on it like 3 hours ago!

[retroed]

That needs to be exchanged, pronto! I just hope you can do a system transfer ok. Such a pain, that is.

[hinn888]

This is the problem when buying consoles online, cant exchange >.<

I think i have to send it to Ninty for repairs, i really wanted to take it to Japan as well

[spatular]

Oh man that sucks good luck getting it fixed.

[Manicm]

Saw this on twitter last night, all i can say is nintendo have an amazingly quick turn around time, ive sent my wii about 3 times all back within a week.

[illdog]

Have you turned it off and on again?

[Sambob]

Saw this on twitter last night, all i can say is nintendo have an amazingly quick turn around time, ive sent my wii about 3 times all back within a week.

Cant figure out if this is praise or not....

[hinn888]

Have you turned it off and on again?

That was actually in the step by step guide on the Nintendo site.

I requested a repair and sent an e-mail but i have to wait for a reply before i can send it, hopefully before i leave!

[DANGERMAN]

do you know what makes the 'going to Japan' angle so sad, you've included your passport in the photo

[hinn888]

It's arrived back!

Took 2 weeks pretty much, not too bad!

[Sly Reflex]

Think of all the street passes you missed in Japan.

[hinn888]

There was tonnes, literally.

Even in the first train i got onto someone was on their XL.

From then on i was always surrounded by them

Then at the Pokemon Centre, there was a whole room just for Ds users and then over flowed to outside

Thanks for the reminder Sly

[Sly Reflex]

Meanwhile I get about 1 puzzle piece every 6 weeks in the UK. Nice one Nintendo. Good job!

[Manicm]

Its because people like me don't even take there 3ds's out the house.

[DANGERMAN]

Meanwhile I get about 1 puzzle piece every 6 weeks in the UK. Nice one Nintendo. Good job!

how is that Nintendo's fault?

[Sly Reflex]

They put a game out that doesn't really work outside of Japan. I bet when the new puzzles come out the Japanese have them finished within the week. My streetpass is full of puzzles that will never ever get finished ever. Those pink pieces are like rocking horse shit. I think out of legitimate use nobody in the UK will ever actually see all of the puzzles completed unless they have a group of friends who all religiously carry their 3DS' about. I only managed to finish the street quest because I was getting 1 or 2 hits per day of the lad. As a design it's very secular. It works in Japan, but everyone else is basically fucked. I'd be surprised if most American 3DS users ever got a hit.

[DANGERMAN]

I don't think you can blame Nintendo for us not really taking our handhelds out of the house

[Manicm]

Its just more of a culture thing in japan, over here its more like take your 3ds in your pocket get mugged its just how things are. If nintendo only released the function for japan we would all be trying to import one just to try it, even though you wouldn't get any more hits as it were.

[Sly Reflex]

I don't think you can blame Nintendo for us not really taking our handhelds out of the house

They must have realised at some point that it wasn't a great idea for non-jap users. I don't understand why the capped the coin limit to 10 per day either. The steps thing should have worked like an XP system where you get a coin for each level up, or a free hard to get puzzle piece for bigger milestones. It's a great idea but I think the badly implemented it.