Yesterday, I e-mailed Nintendo of America to talk about the upcoming shut down of the Flipnote Hatena service for the Nintendo DSi system. They actually replied! >^< Here's the official e-mail:
Greetings C.J,
Thank you for sharing your feedback about Flipnote Hatena.
First off, I wanted to let you know that we do not use automated
programs, and that our employees here at Nintendo read and answer each
and every email that we receive. As an avid user of Flipnote Hatena myself, I
can certainly understand your disappointed regarding the recent news
about this service. Rest assured that everything you've mentioned in
your email about Flipnote Hatena and Flipnote Studio 3D has been
documented and will be passed along to our other departments at the
company. Even if it isn't positive, we always appreciate hearing what's
important to our fans.
At this time, I can only
confirm that the Flipnote Hatena service will no longer be available
after May 31st, 2013. The reason for this is that we are transferring
the current services to the new services since Flipnote Studio 3D will
be released soon. We apologize for DSiWare Flipnote Studio users, but we appreciate your understanding and continued support.
Sincerely,
Kevin Anderson
Nintendo of America Inc.
--- Original Message ---
Received: 3/14/13 12:29:05 PM PDT
Subject: Flipnote Hatena for Nintendo DSi/DSi XL
Dear Nintendo,
I am a loyal user of the
Flipnote Hatena service that you have provided on your handheld, the Nintendo DSi
.
I've only been using the service for a year since February and I love
it. The friendships I made, the fans I earned. They all were hard-earned
with dedication. In fact, I was so dedicated to being great, I almost
failed school just to keep my progress going (I brought myself back,
though). So when I heard the announcement that you were shutting down
the
Flipnote Hatena service effective as of May 31st, 2013, just to replace it with a similar service for the Nintendo 3DS
,
I actually got angry. The service is doing perfectly fine on the DSi on
it's own so why did you decide to shut it down? There are millions of
children and teens using the service daily but can't afford the Nintendo
3DS
(I know I can't afford it). So keep the service up for those who can't afford another handheld. Also, I know the
Flipnote 3D
application for the 3DS is supposed to be better in almost every single
way but do you really need to charge money to post Flipnotes? That
evidence right there proves that you are trying to possibly get more
money to make up for 2012, when the 3DS sales began to drop. Or it
proves that you are purposely focusing more on the 3DS than on the
regular DS and DSi systems. I, for one, think that it's kind of selfish,
only focusing on one, specific handheld while its fellow brethren are
just left to lurk in the shadows. As I pointed out before, Not everybody
has a 3DS so it seems kind-of unfair that you would be singling them
out. Finally, again, as mentioned, millions upon millions of people use
the service daily, making it extremely popular among those who use it.
Not to mention when you introduced the Nintendo DSi
console back in 2008/2009, it, among others, was one of your focused
selling points. So if it's so popular, why are you just pushing it
aside, like it's worth nothing anymore?
In
conclusion, I believe that you are making a mistake, Nintendo. I
furthermore go on to say that you are truly going to upset
tens-of-thousands of loyal gamers, future animators, and loyal Nintendo
fans by dismissing the
Flipnote Hatena service. I hope you can
respond to this e-mail soon. But please, I'd rather much ask to have an
actual representative of the Nintendo Corporation reply to this than a
programmed, automatic response machine that always sends a response that
matches along the lines of: "Thank you for contacting us. We are happy
to know of your opinions on how we are doing." Sorry, just a preference
of mine.To bring this back to the main focus of this e-mail, please consider keeping the
Flipnote Hatena
service online for those with a Nintendo DSi or DSi XL. I would be
truly grateful, as would all those who use the service itself.
Sincerely Yours,
C.J. Poirier
United States of America
Class of 2016
And As Always, Rage On.
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