StreetPass Update Adds New Minigames and Premium Option to Hold 100 Hits

I'm such a happy bunny over this. Great Direct for the 3DS. Poor Wii U though!

I'm excited for these. We bought the zombie and fishing games for all three of our 3DS systems and loved them. The question will be, do we pick up the original games that we don't own yet or these new ones?

Oh, and they should have done a Street Pass Weekend to push these!

Excited about this. I still wander around hoping to get streetpass (Argos in the UK is great for this!) I will definitely get one of the free ones. I haven't beaten the other premium games yet so will just stick at the free one for now.

I was just bumming out yesterday about how I don't play the SP games anymore. Well, 9 bucks worth of games will get me right back into it. Excellent

Adding a premium option to something that could've been done by default. Thanks, Nintendo. You're the best.

I get that they wanted to make these new games more bite sized, but it seems to me like there is barely any gameplay to them. Hope I am wrong. Will we get an article on them later this week? I would love some help in deciding which one to pick for free.

Very happy about this particularly as it's right in time for my holiday to usa next week...100 streetpassed in Nintendo ny? Yes please 😀

So $14 for better streetpass functions and 4 games... I am ok with this lol

Bought my 3DS at launch and have only had 8 real streetpasses.
Seriously Nintendo needs to release a thing where you can connect once a week to 3DS friends and streetpass them online so we aren't all left out. This is getting ridiculous.

@Equinox

Why thank you, sir! I shall check that out!

Took Nintendo long enough to realize the 10-Mii limit isn't enough. Can't wait to finish entire puzzles in one day whenever I get to a gaming convention!

Trader looks really boring, and Explorers looks to be the best one in the list because it'd encourage people to walk more and get exercise, and because it looks fun.

Expanding the 10 limit to 100 should have happened years ago to be honest, and it's disappointing that you have to pay to get it though.

I got the Traders game for free. I wonder which one is more popular...

No Nintendo zones in Denmark anymore

I've still never got 100 streetpass hits total, but I'm never turning down a free game

I can't open up my 3DS and check right now, but is the 'Premium' Plaza just a flat $5, or is it a monthly/yearly thing like Pokemon Bank? I've had no interest in it until now.

Relieved I already have Premium, but damn, I just sank $14 USD on Super Mario Galaxy just a couple days ago (man, I hate Mario's physics). Between this and Picross 3D Round 2, I'm droolin'!

Also, figures that with just two blue panels left on mine, Puzzle Swap now has Bonus Chances to get multiple of a visitor's panels at once.

@RaccoonNinja28 Flat, one-time payment.

@YouSeemFRAZZLED I noticed the other games in there, too! Gives a cohesion to the Plaza...'s economy?

Best new thing in the Direct, IMO. Increasing the streetpass limit is totally worth $4.99. Will make conventions way more convenient.

I hope there are some new hats and clothing! Definitely getting that Racing one. Good to see they have updated it too.

Puzzle and Mansion are still my favorite. But that cooking one looks fun.

Best part of the Direct for me, easily! 😃 Downloading all of it! Lol.

@nintendomasterr

same here and got 6 of them at the between 2 different airports.

If the ability to get 100 hits in one stop is now available, I then must demand a Streetpass weekend to really kick the new games off!

I was already Premium for a long time now. Had to pay $9 for the bundle, MowMow789

So do you have to pay for the 100 hits option, or is that free?

Edit: read it better so it cost 4.99 to upgrade to the 100 hits. Since I only get them at Best Buy can I go their and get one hundred or would it still be limited too 10 because it's a Nintendo zone?

Downloading all of it too! Great Direct.

@Pink_Floyd You get six Streetpasses at Nintendo Zones. Currently, you are capped at 10 Streetpasses before the system stops taking them and you have to go to the Plaza to clear them out. With Premium, the cap is increased to 100. You don't get more Streetpasses at Nintendo Zones, it just increases how many people you can pass with before the 3DS cuts it off.

Just in time for DragonCon, oh baby...

Pokemon Hats pls!

The novelty of the street pass games has well worn off for me now. These releases have a come a bit late in the day.

In fact I think the way they half abandoned 3ds and have now come back to it once the Wii U has failed is a bit out of order, especially with all these re-releases

Looks good! But... where/how do I find the bundle? When I try purchasing I only seem to be able to buy one game at a time?

@Yoshi Ok thanks for the help I appreciate it.

@rodjon It comes up when you select that you want to buy a single game. The rabbit tells you there's a bundle of 4 games available at a special price and then you can get the bundle instead of a single game.

Is there a bundle to get ALL of the games, like for those of us who have yet to spend a cent on streetpass plaza stuff?

@Grumblevolcano
Ah, thanks, I'll try that! Does that include the "freebie" or should I choose that one before proceeding in buying the bundle? I still find it somewhat strange that there 's no "buy it all"-button in the menu, but I guess that's a choice they made.

@Grumblevolcano That rabbit, and the one in Badge Arcade we named Coindexter, need amiibo. Of course if they are the same bunny then 1 will do.

@rodjon Choose the freebie first.

@Grumblevolcano
Thanks again for your help! It worked out fine!

I was just about done carrying my 3DS around. I guess I'll pick one of those two streetpass games. Would be nice to have more puzzles. Mine are all complete, have been for awhile.

@jos @nintendomasterr Have you guys never been to a Street Pass relay station? Basically, go to any McDonald's or Star Bucks or Barnes & Noble or BestBuy store and you'll get some street passes while there.

@Equinox Yeah, it just took them the entirety of the 3DS's lifespan to do it, lol! Anyway, I'm glad about this; did the update this morning and besides the fixes and additions they're reporting, Mii Plaza runs noticeably smoother and more fluidly. (It seems Nintendo did some optimizations to increase the frames per second... Nice!)

I have the update, I chose the free game, I have the 4.99 premium plaza upgrade from before, and my Mii even has the golden badge to prove it, but it still limits me to only 10 streetpasses instead of 100. Do I need to buy the bundle of the other four games too?

@bezerker99
not US based and they do not have any where I am based

Anything I am doing wrong if I log in and I don't get any kind of notification? Should it tell me there is a free game or something when I first log in? I received the Notification, but nothing appears to be different in my Mii Plaza....

@JohnBlackstar
You can check for the update directly from the plaza. It should start updating if you haven't tried that yet. After it's done, it will restart and then you can select which game you can get for free.

Mii Trek is awesome. I rarely ever get any streetpasses, but I do get plenty of walking in, so I'll be using a lot of play coins on this one. I wonder if there is a max of how many steps you can get from someone. I have about 3.9 million steps. Whoever streetpasses me with this game will be lucky! lol

NOOOOooooo I finally got all the hat ticket things from all of the other games and was starting to make progress on other games on my 3DS. Too bad I'm "required" to download these games.

Anyone worked out how to send the miis to the queue? Can't work out how.

Edit: Just choose the queue option at the entrance, but always go to the entrance from within the plaza, not when starting up the plaza. Otherwise, you miss the option to queue.

This is fantastic - I just threw away 10 encounters by accidentally clicking the wrong option on the Plaza opening screen, and I often had to strategise when to open my 3DS and let in 9 (or risk going for 10 and losing few hits in overflow). I'd definitely welcom the ability to accumulate more than 10 miis without having to worry about losing any.

I discovered this in the notification, and although I didn't initially catch the part about it requiring streetpass premium, I wouldn't mind spending a few more pounds on the plaza.

I'm curious about the new games too, although currently, I'm still trying to get a birthday bloom in Streetpass Gaden for a job (I foolishly sold it when I got it the first time around), and two more gold ticket legendary fish on Streetpass Fishing...

@jos Ah, my mistake. I forgot about different region...

@XCWarrior I thought new puzzles were added?

@SMW Looks like it only goes on how many steps you do up to the point you streetpass them. Hiring explorers generates random steps for each one.

I've been waiting years for that 10 man cap to rise. This update is totally getting me back into the game, I've blown through 260 play coins in a matter of minutes.

Does that mean I can finally get the "meet 100 visitors in one day" schievement? That felt like an impossiblity here in Sweden before, and even moreso lately as a lot of Nintendo zones have disappeared.

So anyone know about the two free games? I'm still on the fence about them. Wish there was more information about them.

@Nin10doh There's some footage here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-uSCioPlhw&index=1&list=PLmzNOj_HPsNsfrLuIR0UDhdFZaZZ-0KIy

The free game is a choice of the trading one or the slot car racing one. In the trading game you ask the miis you meet to be analysts. They predict the pattern of the stocks, the more you have, the more accurate. You then trade for a day, buying when low and selling when high.

The slot car racing is where you race miis you meet round a slot car track. You get different chips and different vehicles as you progress.

The Explorers game uses the steps count of the miis you meet to let you travel round regions collecting photos and treasures.

The Chef game is where you prepare food with the ingredients given to you by mii visitors. The better meal you cook, the better the adventurers do in their quest.

The Ninja game is where your mii is fired out of a cannon and you have to align the mii visiters with the projected flight path so that you collect armour and weapons to beat a foe.