Today in Tokyo's Akihabara geek district, in front of the massive Akiba Yodobashi department store, several 3DS owners gathered and quietly their new game system with others, Wireless Mode On. Many gamers, myself included, all gathered to exchange Miis through the Street Pass system. If you just got your system, today was a perfect day to wrangle up a bunch of interactions to get Miis for Street Pass Quest warriors and Street Pass Puzzle pieces. So many people were gathered that more showed up to join in the fun with DS and DSi systems.
Several dozen showed up, as you'll see in the above picture. You'll also see that Pikachu showed up. Okay, so Pikachu didn't come to trade Miis. That was another event.
On the Mii trading: So many people were coming in and out of the store front area toward this meeting place that I had to select the renew option in the Mii Plaza application four times in a row. I kept on getting more Miis!
Between Akiba this morning, a lunch with a friend in Roppongi, and a dinner in Ebisu, today was a massive success for gathering puzzle pieces and amassing warriors to fight for me. I have a few almost-full puzzles in Street Pass Puzzle, and I'm going on the seventh dungeon in Street Pass Quest. A couple more weekends like this and Nintendo will have to come up for some new social Street Pass games for Tokyo residents. We'll have beaten them all!
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Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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7:36 AM on 03.06.2011 | 
Love all the stuff you're giving us about the 3DS! I can't wait for mine!
btw, check out pikachu - it looks like he has a dirt 'stache
Also, the Oshawott in the second Pikachu picture is looking at me hungry and it's making me uncomfortable.
/flameshield
I hope StreetPass is successful over here too.
I'm don't think im sure exactly how this works... How can you still not have completed a puzzle after so may people you met?
It would be kinda weird if all Street Pass manages to do is just getting people outdoor.
Also, I wonder if this would be a good way of picking up chicks. lol
This sounds so great; hopefully some kind of event will be held similarly across the US.
lmao true. ( unfortunately )
@Kingsigy: seriously WTF is wrong with some people. You can be a shut in/uber nerd/overweight and still have hygiene.
Maybe I'm getting the wrong impression from the pictures, though.
so true :P
and that is one of the many reasons why ad hoc or wireless play here are pretty much dead.
AGREE.
srsly, that is one miserable looking bunch of people y'all.
maybe I'll pass on that 3DS after all :D
He could very well be playing Love Plus too.
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