The same thing could play out as with those other incidents. Yet Nintendo hasn’t stripped down those features. To make matter worse, more children play that game period. I know most young girls, that is literally their favorite 3DS game as well. So why are they going to remove something like Swapnote, but then still let kids just talk to anyone in Animal Crossing pretty much? Cause let’s face it, most parents probably have no idea their kids can even do that in a game like Animal Crossing. In Animal Crossing you can add virtually anyone or talk to anyone on the islands, through Club Tortimer. You can add people easily on the Wii U, but then on the 3DS, it is a total pain the ass. Nintendo is also stupidly restrictive about certain things, then they don’t even bother with others, which makes no sense at all. Unless you lock them in a room and monitor their every movement 24/7, they will most likely get into some trouble every now and then. Even with good information given, sometimes you just cannot stop a child from doing something stupid, that’s life. It’s a slippery slope because even with the best parenting, sometimes your child can just be a little shit no matter what you do. So even if they couldn’t communicate or send pictures on their 3DS, they would do it some other way, on a phone or computer. These kids were at least smart enough to know they could look online to unlock the parental controls. So the 3DS being a small part of this, really didn’t make a damn difference. It was even said in one of the incidents that the girl was already talking to these men in an online forum before hand. Which means they had to have had a computer or a smartphone to do this, which also means they were already talking to these people on either. If you actually read the story, you’d know these kids broke the parental locks in order to do this. This kind of stuff is going to happen regardless if a kid has a 3DS or not. It isn’t a gaming companies responsibility to raise children for their parents. The only people to blame are Nintendo with that.
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