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Though StreetPass has proven to be extremely popular, you’re much less likely to directly cross a fellow Nintendo 3DS user stateside than in the console’s home country of Japan. But thanks to a new update, you’ll now be able to pick up Mii avatar buddies via StreetPass Relay. When a 3DS user crosses a Nintendo Zone hotspot, their data is automatically stored and passed on to another 3DS owner who hits the same relay point. You’ll find them in North America at Best Buy, Simon malls, Future Shop and AT&T WiFi hotpots located in Starbucks, McDonald’s and Barnes & Noble. That’ll help you scoop up friends to play new Mii Plaza games Mii Force, Flower Town, Warrior’s Way and Monster Manor. They sold to the tune of $4 million in their first month, meaning you should have more potential players than ever hanging around your gate.

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Apparently a lot of people have followed the white rabbit hawking Nintendo’s new 3DS StreetPass games, because the four new titles have moved like gangbusters. Nintendo sold $4 million worth of Mii Force, Flower Town, Warrior’s Way and Monster Manor in a month (at $5 each or $15 for all four) to players champing at the bit for more games using the interactive feature. To the uninitiated, you can pick up StreetPasses just by crossing paths with another 3DS player or even someone who’s recently been in the same place through proxy passes. That lets you play games with their Miis (avatars), but until recently there were only a couple of preloaded titles that use the functionality. There must have been some pent-up demand, though, considering the sales numbers — after all, the 3DS has been Nintendo’s bread and butter lately. As a reminder about how it all works, check the video after the break.

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While Nintendo’s 3DS handheld console is certainly doing pretty well for itself now, it did not get off to a good start and saw its price reduced to help boost its sales, and the Wii U isn’t exactly a hot seller at the moment either, but what could be the cause of Nintendo’s troubles? Could it be bad hardware? Lack of games? Lack of appeal to the more hardcore gamer? Well according to Nintendo, it’s none of that. Instead it seems that Nintendo’s executives are blaming the Tohoku earthquake which occurred in 2011 for slowing the momentum of the 3DS.

According to Yahoo Japan News, this sluggish start for the 3DS had a carry-over effect on the Wii U console, which affected the sales of the console. Granted the earthquake had repercussions on not just the daily lives of the people in the area, but also on businesses, but do you think Nintendo is right in blaming the earthquake for the slow start of the 3DS and the sluggish sales of the Wii U? Assuming they are right, does that mean we expect to see Wii U sales pick up in the future?

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Own a Nintendo 3DS? You’re probably all too familiar with the frustrations of the device’s StreetPass feature — in the United States, crossing paths with another 3DS in the wild just isn’t all that likely. It’s one of the disadvantages of living in a less densly populated country, but Nintendo is delivering a hotfix: sometime in the next few weeks Nintendo Zone locations at Best Buy, Starbucks, various AT&T hotspots, malls and other locations will begin saving and relaying 3DS StreetPass data, allowing gamers to interact by proxy. Once a system nabs one of these timeshifted StreetPasses, its own data will be uploaded to the Nintendo Zone hotspot to be shared with the next user, creating a chain of delayed passive interaction. Convoluted? A little, but how else are you going to complete your Puzzle Swap collection?

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