The Sad State of the Streetpass Mii Plaza in 2022 | Streetpass Retrospective

[@GamingtheOtter]

I use to run a streetpass group. It's really hard to get regular tags unless you live in a big city or go to a convention which is the problem. The mii plaza application obviously used the feature the best. Problem with it though is that the streetpass games in the mii plaza can be very time consuming. I'll try to go to pax west. Maybe I will get more tags there.

[@Balend]

You can send miis to the line if you want more time to finish your games. Up to 100

[@D3sdinova]

Bravely default also makes very good use of it. It allows you to get certain much, much quicker. But only with people who have the game i believe, but i think in bravely second it works with people who have the demo too. Also note that this will be the only way to get more villagers when the servers go offline.

[@D3sdinova]

Also went to a gaming convention earlier this year and only got 2 or 3 street passes, and those are the only ones i ever got on my new 3DS.

[@GojoStiglitz]

I don’t much touch my 2ds anymore. However anytime I take a flight out of town I still make sure to bring it with me-simply for the streetpass. I didn’t much care for the puzzle pieces, I only really cared about the mii’s you’d pick up. I seldom get any more notifications via Streetpass even in the airport. I treat Streetpass as a Pokémon game now-every now and then I’ll get a random notification and it’s almost like catching a shiny. I miss that function.

[@BrandoGlaceon]

I will forever bring my 3DS everywhere with me as long as it keeps working!

[@cosmic.1]

Till death do I leave my 3DS behind.

[@BrandoGlaceon]

@@cosmic.1 Yas.

[@lucidsoapy]

yes!

[@garlicbreadanytime3669]

@@cosmic.1 yessir

[@littledawnthevulpix9393]

Oh hey another Glaceon and YES WE MUST BRING BACK STREETPASS

[@ivanm8682]

If only we could revive the 3DS…

[@AlexSpy3DS]

✌🤘👊

[@kaijukebox]

My dad actually collected all the puzzle swap pieces. Crazy times.

[@kagomefan112]

Omg I wish I could tag his 3DS.

[@dexter111344]

I have 5 3DSes. Other than not having all the pink puzzle pieces, I play the Streetpass games daily.

[@lucidsoapy]

i take my 3ds everywhere now… have only gotten one tag so far but when i saw that green light i was so excited!

[@PaizenCakes]

If you think your Mii Plaza feels lonely, I bought my FIRST 3dsXL in fall of 2020 and have 0 streetpass tags. It's not that big a deal to me but the system allows you one free Plaza game that I can't even get without some other Miis first. Would be nice if I could take this thing someplace where 3ds enthusiasts all came together haha. Maybe a retro convention might be our only option in 2022?

[@cmop644664gaming]

Thanks for the random plug homie. Didnt realize you still had mii in your mii plaza

[@zabwazowski5216]

3ds is my favorite console ever and I really wanted to love the switch as much as I loved my 3ds. But it’s it’s not the same, the switch feels so boring and lifeless compared to the 3ds. 3ds had little jingles and songs for literally any little app or game, street pass, face raiders, your activity log, AR games, the Music app it was so packed with fun features even without games and the switch just lacks any of that, no menu music, no eshop music, no setting music, heck even the mii maker is dead silent and that’s so depressing, my switch is just a big dust collector I barley use it at all, there’s no games worth really taking anywhere. Which makes me think if Nintendo will ever make a new ds sometime in the future, I am very very doubtful if it since the switch is their cash cow right now. But I still wonder if they will ever make another DS

[@mikoletea]

This is old, but I feel the same way. I was so excited for switch lite, especially when animal crossing came out, but the console itself is nothing like the old Nintendo handhelds, besides how it looks basically :/ the 3ds especially had so many things to do that didn’t need Wi-Fi and we’re still fun and engaging. Even without a game you could still have so much fun! But now, there’s basically nothing you can do on the switch besides settings and news… 😞 I will always reminisce

[@NickMario1]

@@mikoletea same

[@TheBranMan]

Wow, now that I'm listening to the video here on KZbin rather than in the editor, I'm realizing I really need a new mic lol. I'll get one for the next video.

[@hexagonal69]

I wish they’d either make it so the Nintendo Switch could act as a sender/receiver that sent data from one switch to another, and then to your 3DS through your Nintendo Account, or just port and migrate the entire thing over to Nintendo Switch, that way the street pass lives on. Growing up, I loved streetpass, and I would always find it so cool when I got the green symbol meaning I’d gotten a tag. But it also made it really rare to get it, since I wasn’t really going out that much, only to school and back, and the occasional trip to the store. And on none of those trips did I think to bring my ds along, as my parents said that I’d be better if I didn’t bring it since I might lose it or get it confiscated.

[@Robato-yuh]

Hey, I’m the founder of StreetPassPrinceton and we’re actually bringing back street pass events to the United States. The next event is in Las Vegas November 18th 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@amelon7261]

Tbh I feel the same way, I look back at my streetpass mii plaza and think about how much Nintendo has changed in the last 6 or 7 years since I used it. Its a weird mix of nostalgia and sadness that era of Nintendo has passed.

[@LoganMcCarthy]

I just bought a refurbished 3DS and this video was just the scoop I needed on the current state of StreetPass affairs. Subbed! I will bring my 3DS around with me 🙏

[@TheBranMan]

Thank you! Enjoy the 3DS, and I hope you can get some streetpass tags too!

[@egonyt]

It’s so nice to find another creator who loves these 3ds features as much as I do

[@evilgoose6768]

I would always look forward to going to the shops with my parents every Saturday, I'd always get around ten each week, there was one person I met like 5 times, I'm just sad that I'll never get to experience something like this again.

[@JeremyBelpoisX]

I had my 3DS from Christmas in 2013....but then I lost it at a theater in 2017 and I lost all my data...I got a second one a few months later...and then it was stolen 5 months ago in July in a horribly traumatic carjacking and the cops couldn't recover it....but every time I will find a way to get my data back. If I gave up, it would be like it truly never happened. You rock making this video.

[@packlesswolf1]

Damn man that's bad luck. Do you got one now?

[@JeremyBelpoisX]

@packlesswolf1 Yeah, I've had my new one for 6 months... and data recovery is not as smooth as I would have liked... but it will be ok.

[@keenan_Does_Stuff]

We go Netpass now sooooooo….

[@nicholasspagnoli]

Around a year ago on the bus to school I got my first street pass. (I got my 3DS in 2017 and never took it out of my house until 2021.)

[@kimberdesu140]

I don’t play video games but this video was so interesting. I never knew about street pass. That’s really interesting. I’d ponder about the human aspects of it too. And the ending 😂 😂 😂 so funny!!!! Nice video! Want to see the next one at a convention and find out how many street pass friends you make

[@D3sdinova]

I got 2 or 3 earlier this year at a retro gaming convention. You used to get about the same simply going to a game store back in 2013 or so, at least in Canada you did, europe not so much.

[@Alexandra_Ercan]

Great video. I miss streetpassing with people You get a sub good sir 💚

[@tem3607]

good video! i miss the street pass so much so many good memories came from it.

[@TheBranMan]

Same! It's fun to look back at my plaza I've built up over the years, I just hope I can continue making memories with it.

[@Joe_334]

It was 2011, and the 3DS was new, I didn't want the handheld at first. I ended up getting one it for my birthday. I have held my mii ever since finding the SP app, that day. When the relay stations were up, it felt like that movie Midnight Madness. It just felt like a game, and I had my set route to drive, then sit there waiting for the little green light. I was at least able to get the mii to tag people from all states in the US. For some reason, when I went over the road for work, that is when the passes seemed to die out. Now, in order to play, there is a 20 play coin fee. In some games you get revisited by miis that your mii has tagged before. Other games are dogs/cats coming to the rescue. That excitement just isn't the same anymore, and my mii are sitting on the switch.

[@LilMonsterHaus]

Is it too much to ask for some dead Mii eyes to stare into my soul in 2022? Apparently. Enjoyed the video though, here's to hoping for a Futaba wedding someday

[@TheBranMan]

Thank you, someday it'll happen for sure. Just kidding haha... unless...?

[@chrisgabjeanzolifischer880]

its a shame how everybody just kinda forgot but i will never, ima bring mine everywhere

[@LastCatalyst24]

I miss my old 3ds. I loved the mii plaza and I wish I could still walk around and get random people’s miis, but barely anyone carry’s a 3ds now :(

[@Dolus_Joli]

bro got the Mutahar thumbnail border

[@spiderfrider64]

It's been 10 months to 6 years ever since I got a streetpass tag and had 70 in the past times still do.

[@user-rs1990]

These days, it defines one particular word... "USELESS!" It really isn't worth your lost time.

[@Dolus_Joli]

this is a good video tho

[@Piizzachuu]

Can we use the play coins to play all the street pass games if we don’t meet new people?

[@samyb4566]

That's right. This is pretty much the only way to play them.

[@WildTonyAppears]

I went to a convention recently and got two StreetPasses. It's certainly better than nothing, but a sad decline for my favourite feature in gaming.

[@TheBranMan]

Wow, a convention even. That is quite disappointing, but I agree, it's great to see there are still people like us out there!

[@D3sdinova]

Couldve been me, also went to a retro gaming convention a few months ago, i think i also got 2

[@kagomefan112]

I have puzzles that will never be complete now. 😭

[@ThatD1spynser]

See you all on Rverse

[@packlesswolf1]

1 month till Eshop closure.

[@DarkChaosMC]

HOW DO YOU LOOK AT THAT MAP BRO I NEED TO SEE MINE

[@burtfeast4767]

Just bought the last of all the games on the plaza but sad I can't experience it with strangers

[@LucraftDaFeeder]

I had a 2ds on my entire life, i havent had a streetpass tag

[@FabioGnecco]

mine plaza doesn't even start up anymore lol sadly ):

[@Yumiko_Animation]

Rip

[@picklejeff5461]

Where's the new review! You are funny

[@TheBranMan]

Thanks, I really appreciate it! I'm a bit late to respond here, but I'm actually working on a video now. I think I just get busy or distracted by other projects, so I'm sorry it's been awhile by this point.

[@picklejeff5461]

@@TheBranMan definatley, that's all good I just found your channel out here and love your content. Editing a vid can be alot but I'm hype to see what you have next! Thanks for responding!

[@AndroidIsSuperior]

Jeffrey Dahmer?