Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Hideaki Tanabe

Daisuke Nakamura

Yosuke Fujino

Masashi Seiki

Naoya Hirota

Kojiro Taguchi

Miki Murakami

Daisuke Tsujimura

Sho Onuma

Exemplary communication systemincludes game devices, communication terminals, and game support server. Game devicesenable users to perform a multi-play activity. Each of communication terminalsruns an application associated with corresponding game device. Game support serverdivides communication terminalsinto separate communication groups in accordance with a situation of the multi-play activity performed by game devicesso that communication terminalsbelonging to a same communication group can communicate with each other.

Communication system, server and information-processing method

Communication system, server, and information-processing method

Exemplary communication system 1 includes game devices 10, communication terminals 20, and game support server 30. Game devices 10 enable users to perform a multi-play activity. Each of communication terminals 20 runs an application associated with corresponding game device 10. Game support server 30 divides communication terminals 20 into separate communication groups in accordance with a situation of the multi-play activity performed by game devices 10 so that communication terminals 20 belonging to a same communication group can communicate with each other.

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Kyoto, Japan

Hideaki Tanabe