Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Yu Horii

Shumpei Yasuda

Eiji Tokunaga

Eugene Borisov

David Tran

Masatoshi Yamazaki

Masaaki Sugino

Tsuyoshi Kurita

Nobutaka Torigoe

Shinobu Suzuki

Yuma Iwai

Yoichi Ohshima

Craig MacDonald

Munehito Oira

Yozo Kawai

Takahiro Fukuda

Joel Hopkins

An information processing system is capable of communicating with an external apparatus via a network. The information processing system is capable of operating in at least three operation modes including: a first mode; a second mode, which consumes less power than the first mode; and a third mode, which consumes less power than the second mode and where the communication via the network is not performed. The information processing system includes a mode control section and a second mode processing section. The mode control section, when the information processing system operates in the third mode, shifts the operation mode to the second mode periodically or in accordance with a predetermined time schedule. The second mode processing section performs a communication process via the network as information processing in the second mode.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing program, and method of controlling operation mode

An information processing system includes a first information processing terminal which can be connected to an external network and a second information processing terminal which receives data from the external network through the first information processing terminal. The first information processing terminal stands by in a sleep mode, and when a predetermined condition is satisfied, it cancels the sleep mode and transmits data from the external network to the second information processing terminal.

Information processing system, non-transitory storage medium encoded with computer readable information processing program, information processing method, and information processing terminal

An object is to provide an information processing apparatus and the like that can reduce power consumption of the information processing apparatus in downloading and installing. To achieve this object, whether or not there is system software update is confirmed in a low power consumption state in which only some of hardware components of the information processing apparatus are supplied with power and communication with a predetermined server can be performed. When there is the update, update data is downloaded, and at least some of the hardware components that are the update targets and that are not supplied with power in the low power consumption state are started to be supplied with power. Then, system update is executed. The series of processes are automatically executed without a user's operation.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an information processing program

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Kyoto, Japan

Yu Horii