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!

Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)

Epic-Kx

rexwolf2

Dale North: 3DS field correspondent.

Love all the stuff you're giving us about the 3DS! I can't wait for mine!

Dale North

thanks rexwolf2!
btw, check out pikachu - it looks like he has a dirt 'stache

lewness

Indifferent bastards not smiling while they're holding their shiny new 3DS.

rexwolf2

Holy hell, you're right, Dale!

Also, the Oshawott in the second Pikachu picture is looking at me hungry and it's making me uncomfortable.

Woopman

The 3DS is gonna take over the world!

Cirdain

I that's awesome!!!

L0cky

i hope streetpass games will become a succes all over the world , lets see if nintendo will release more streetpass games in the future.

OTLeon

Awesome, StreetPass provide a new way for gamers to enjoy a game, and game coins encourage gamers to take 3DS out. 3DS might not be the most powerful handheld in the world, but it is the most interesting one for sure!

Kakashi

3DS is gay. NGP is king.(if its under 250) >_>

rexwolf2

@Kakashi: Please refrain from using homophobic slurs to describe things that you have a personal disinterest in. Thank you.

vatrak

@Kakashi: Looking at your comment, there's not doubt you will enjoy your NGP.... XD

/flameshield

Woopman

@Kakashi: Would you kindly GTFO?

I hope StreetPass is successful over here too.

Floameh

So Dale, do you have thousands of Mii's in your Plaza now?

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?

Dale North

floameh - it's kinda silly. If those miis don't have a piece you need, nothing happens

DAVYDOCK

Sad bastards.

chronicus_prime

Nintendo's next Marketing campaign. Bet!

StickfighterTV

Why do some of them have masks?

OriginalGman

President Tanaka must have had a sale on his TV show, cuz there be a lot of masks out there.

RX79V

Do those people interact with each other in any way (other than having 3DS exchanging data)?
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

Ryan leps

It's nice to see everyone is having a nice time :)

Gwendolyn

Just to show'em people that video games don't make you a recluse! (because there are some who still believe that)

This sounds so great; hopefully some kind of event will be held similarly across the US.

KingSigy

It's cool to see such public interaction. The most we get in the US is conventions full of sweaty guys who don't understand the concept of soap.

DAVYDOCK

@kingsigy

lmao true. ( unfortunately )

PhilKenSebben

@Epic: that pic made my morning.
@Kingsigy: seriously WTF is wrong with some people. You can be a shut in/uber nerd/overweight and still have hygiene.

Jon Hartley

"Public interaction"? It looks like a lot if people being alone together, if that makes any sense. Sitting and wordlessly staring at your DS next to someone else who is doing the same is public interaction, huh?

Maybe I'm getting the wrong impression from the pictures, though.

ZeniGeva

^ This.

PrinceHeir

@KingSigy

so true :P

and that is one of the many reasons why ad hoc or wireless play here are pretty much dead.

Daniel Delacruz

Stuff like this makes me hate the fact that I live in the states

charlie von chaingun

@akathatoneguy

AGREE.

srsly, that is one miserable looking bunch of people y'all.

maybe I'll pass on that 3DS after all :D

Furnimus

The guy on the left is a failure. He is holding his 3DS sideways, and unless he is playing Brain Age or Rhythm Heaven, I'm not sure he should be.

Jasper Tandy

Every little thing you post like this about the 3DS makes me more excited about mine arriving.

Elliot G

@Furnimus.

He could very well be playing Love Plus too.

dtomek

Mmm hate to say it, but this is kinda gay.

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