Near is far from a Street Pass. It's best quality is fighting games. But having to hit near all the time is horrid. Not to mention near goes through wireless routers so you'll mostly be at home using it. It is huge and heavy like an Atari Lynx almost Game Gearish. Montazuma is fun and free. Sadly a lot of games have extra packs. So you end up buying unfinished games. Mortal Kombat is the only card free game, I hate it, some things may improve along the lines of joining PS3 users. Very good Facebook and Twitter apps. Although you'd think the Facebook app could handle the games on it. Being a game system. Nice though if you want to post images or statements without flipping open your lap top. Ah make some business discussions, it might make it a write off. Frankly for the money the 3DS even in XL version is worth more.