Here's how Sonic Generations' 3DS-specific features will work

@tmujir955

Nope. The entire system is solely designed for the JP market, seeing as mass-transit is common as heck, the systems are darn near everywhere, and everyone is usually using them during said transit rides.

Its just Sega/other devs who are far too lazy/ignorant to realize this and thus actually alter it in any meaningful way to correct the issue.

@tmujir955 Yes, but only at busy places like amusement parks and movie theaters. It's a blast at conventions like PAX though. You'll get thousands of those duuuuuuuuuuudes there.

@tmujir955
I get like 3 people a day.

@tmujir955
Depending where and when I go, I can have from 0 streetpasses a week, to 30 a week.
You really have to know your area to know when and where to get a streetpass. (or just join a streetpass community and set up meets)

Oh, and it isn't that difficult to get a streetpass from someone who owns the same game... I get challenges on Dead or Alive from other streetpassed players all the time... and get my butt whooped... every single time...

Wait 'til Christmas, I'm sure you'll get more streetpasses after that.

@tmujir955
BTW: Having your 3DS on isn't a problem for most 3DS users...
...a lot of 3DS users get excited putting their 3DS in their pocket before they go out after they've experienced "the thrill" of getting a single streetpass the day before. :P

@DevilSei
A bit... the old DS-"streetpass" function was DEFINITELY aimed towards the Japanese market. This one's more friendly for places outside the US... especially for kids. You know, classmate streetpasses and all that.

The adults on the other hand? ...well, let's just hope the co-workers love them some 3DS.
(It also helps to go to movie theaters on Friday/Saturday nights... or grocery stores during the time other people go there... or just game stores during sales)

@blahblah55
*outside JAPAN... darnit... editing...

@tmujir955

I've run into two people on campus with it (yet i still dont know who!), but considering ive only run into two people, these missions seem rather difficult to unlock, boring to complete, and uninteresting.

@tmujir955
I got about 25-30 just walking around random places on the weekend for 2 months after the 3DS came out. I wasn't expecting much with it just being released and all.

Then I went to PAX, and let me tell you... It's a good thing there were lines for stuff or I never would've been able to clear out my maxed out MiiPlaza and SSFIV:3DE figurine battles every 5-10 minutes.

But as the guy said above, once xmas rolls around and there's a ton more out there (thanks to no competition from Sony this season and a lower price point) you'll get the hits.

@LittleMofreaky
I don't know about you, but when I go to amusement parks I don't play with my 3DS or even bring it with me. I'm going on rides, eating without moderation, and taking pictures in silly positions with family and friends.

I wouldn't bother wasting my poor 3DS's battery during this whole event trying to get a "streetpass" which might get me some little virtual item or something.

@tmujir955 I have over 400 different Miis in my plaza, but I go to conventions. Outside of conventions, I got like 35.

@tmujir955
I take the E train in new york every day
1-2 streetpasses everyday

@pluupy the 3DS battery doesn't die out fast when it's on sleep mode so you're find with just putting it in your pocket.

@pluupy Um... Theres a small amusement park in my town that I go to a lot during the summer where my family usually has a picnic. Sorry, I should have said picnics instead of amusement parks. You were kind of rude, but I'll forgive ya, plupster. :)

@tmujir955
2-10 people a day, why do you ask?

Maybe this is an American problem. I was maxing out my streetpass limit daily when I was travelling through Europe this year. Spain, Germany, UK was full of streetpass users.

@Frostblade10 http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h101/DoomsdayZone/CultureShock.png

@Frostblade10
Robotnik was just something they did in the translations. I dunno.... I preferred Robotnik anyway. Eggman is just...goofy and stupid.

@(Unverified)

Thank you so much for posting this. I wonder though if back then he was ever called "Eggman" or if he just had a ship named "Eggman."

@Frostblade10

His official name is Ivo Robotnik. This is confirmed with his grandfather and Maria having the last name Robotnik. Eggman is just an insult that Sonic and co. called him and I suppose it caught on with the people as well. Maybe Robotnik thought the name was catchy to and deceided to address himself as that.

@Frostblade10
The original English instruction manual for his 1991 debut game Sonic the Hedgehog described the character's full name as "Doctor Ivo Robotnik" while the Japanese version's instruction manual for the same game called him "Doctor Eggman". Then in 1999's Sonic Adventure, the character was called both "Doctor Robotnik" and "Doctor Eggman" in the English version, with all following English releases to date referring to him as "Doctor Eggman". Yuji Naka has explained that "Robotnik" is the character's real name while "Eggman" is a "common name taken after his shape." Despite this, the Japanese Sonic Channel profile listed his full name as unknown.

Source: http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Dr._Eggman

I read somewhere else in this wikia that the name Dr. Ivo Robotnik was actually retconned into the Japanese continuity and Eggman, as mentioned before, became sort of a derrogative nickname.



It's not quite here but somewhere else in this wikia, some of the information is there though

@TheShaper
Please igonore the last sentence, I should've edited it out.