One of the coolest features of the new Nintendo 3DS console is StreetPass -- a feature that lets your 3DS wirelessly trade information with other nearby consoles. We explain what it's all about. Luke ...

When it comes to unique gimmicks, the Nintendo 3DS is mainly remembered for the wow factor of its glasses-free stereoscopic 3D effects (which Nintendo would eventually abandon with the introduction of ...

While Nintendo's Wii U video game console has languished both in terms of sales and interesting content available on the device, the Japanese gaming giant's mobile counterpart, the 3DS, has continued ...

One of the best features of the Nintendo 3DS is its ability to StreetPass. You will find this feature in no other portable device that plays games. The Vita doesn’t do it. The iPhone can’t do it.

Nintendo is building a system of server relays to allow 3DS owners living in North America and Europe to use the handheld's StreetPass functionality with greater frequency, Nintendo president and CEO ...

The DS's Tag Mode is an under-used feature of the hardware, with very few games getting the most out of it. That hasn't deterred Nintendo from making it a bigger feature of its upcoming 3DS however, ...

Ten years ago today the 3DS debuted in Japan. It followed the DS family and the big selling point for this third generation of Nintendo's dual-screened systems was the addition of 3D graphics. And yet ...

Why isn’t StreetPass on the Nintendo Switch? Of the long list of unique features Nintendo supported during the 3DS and Wii U era — your Miiverses, SpotPasses, and the like — StreetPass, a wireless ...

The humble StreetPass feature on the 3DS is largely seen as a supplemental element of the system. Essentially, the idea is you walk around living your daily life with your plucky 3DS on sleep mode and ...

Nintendo's StreetPass on 3DS has been a successful and fairly unique approach to socializing on a gaming platform, thanks in part to the handful of StreetPass-fueled games available on the system. Mii ...

There were additional costumes in the original game, but the 3DS version significantly increases the costume lineup. Of course, you can use these costumes to take even nicer pictures. When you’ve ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. In most ways, the now 10-year-old 3DS was an oddity–the next ...