Miiverse, Nintendo’s integrated social media platform, will soon be seeing a design overhaul with some interesting new features.

Nintendo detailed some of the changes on an announcement page on Miiverse:

• A “screenshot album” will give users a private space to store up to 100 in-game screenshots for later viewing.
• Because many users would create Let’s Play-style threads to chronicle their gameplay experiences, Nintendo is formalizing the practice with “Play Journals”. By suspending a game and opening Miiverse, you can add screenshot entries to your personal Play Journal for that game, with accompanying captions.
• There will be a new categorization system for posts in Communities: now, you can filter posts to view only Play Journals, only drawings, or only discussions.

Some minor changes were also detailed. Posting to one’s own Activity Feed will no longer be supported, and the infamous “two minute rule” that prevented posting in quick succession will be dropped in favor of a “30 posts per day” rule.

These changes will be implemented sometime this summer, though no exact date was given.

My Opinion:

I’m really looking forward to the new Play Journal feature! Seems like it will be a fun, low-key way to record your reactions and impressions as you go through a new game for the first time. It’ll be fun not only to share them with my friends, but to look over them myself at a later time. The other changes I’m ambivalent toward, though I will say I prefer the new daily post limit instead of the mandated two-minute cooldown between posts. I don’t think I’ve ever published more than 30 posts to Miiverse in a single day!

Aaron Dobbe is an Associate Writer at MONG specializing in Nintendo but playing a bit of everything else too. Follow him on Facebook and pester him to get a Twitter.