Place bets that this won't hit Europe/Australia for a long time, or if they do the shop will be closed for 364 days and 23 hours of a year?

Go figure that I'm going to NYC early next month and this will open right afterwards... ;_;

Nintendo should just invest in a floating air-fortress-city that's just one big Nintendo store. When they want to demo something, they just fly over some city. It would also eliminate the need for an E3 booth, since it'll just float above the convention center.

It shall be called... Spaceworld. HAHAHAAHAHBBBBBEQGWGWQA

haha that would be sweet, I'm drawing parallels between that idea and every flying thing that Bowser has ever created. but I can't find out any way for them to use an enemy to advertise Nintendo products... maybe Bowser and Wario worked together to still all of the Mushrooms Kingdoms merchandise and they're selling it for profit? hmmm, sounds more like a Jesse and James kinda idea. oh well I can dream, that would be sweet though. but to be more realistic I was just going to say that they really need to build something like that in L.A.!!! that would be much more feasible for me at least, I've never been to NYC and don't know when I will be... maybe I'll find a way when Revolution comes out, I wish... but seriously if there was something like that in LA I'd be there, with friends!

LA already gets E3. Show SF some love.

plugz: A store like this will never hit Oz, and the only thing I see coming to Europe is a smaller version for London or something.

I'm all for the floating city idea though.

Shoot. I was hoping to visit the Pokemon Center store one day. Oh well, I guess this will be just as good.

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They should be focusing on making games not setting up stores. They will need a lot of killer apps to sell the revolution: No killer app software = no sale.

Because we all know that opening up a single store will take up all of Ninty's resources...Ninty has actually shipped all of their programmers and other staff to go help move stuff in!

I'm pulling up the Airship music from SMB3 right now

YES!!! Finally something in NY!!1! This is a dream come true. Even if it ends up as some shack that says the word "Nintendo" on it infested with pigeons and rats and rhinoceros, im still happy. Its in the city and it says Nintendo

Someone had the brilliant suggestion that we ride Para Troopas in order to get to the floating city.

Infernal Monkey wins the internet, then

Oh man. I still want Ash's cap. Please tell me they'll get more.

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OMG... a Nintendo Store?

If this turns into the Apple Store thing it'll be a dream come true. Had a heck of a time finding any Apple Products in my city having to drive to some far off, private store located in the basement of a large building. But now.. not even a half hour drive got me my shiny new iPod and a plethora of other things I'd been meaning to get.

A similar situation is happening with Gamecube and Gameboy Advance products. Can't seem to find them anywhere. Yeah, sales are not so hot in the overall picture, but considering all that any store seems to have on the shelf are 1st party titles and a few recent releases (and it's been like that here for WELL over two years, even when Xbox and GCN hardware sales were closer in number to each other). It's about time Nintendo opens up a store displaying all their prodcuts. According to the GS in my area, Viewtiful Joe 2 isn't available for the GCN and the Super Mario Advance games are ALL out of print.

This store would be a good way to bring game demos to the people without having to deal with arse-y retailers like EB and Gamestop.

Yey!!! It ain't an E3 equivalent, but at least I don't need to travel to Nintendo HQ in Seattle for cool goods, just have to take the Q to the B.

Today NYC, tommorow...the world Muahahahahahahahahaha

"This store would be a good way to bring game demos to the people without having to deal with arse-y retailers like EB and Gamestop."

I assume you mean if this becomes a chain of sorts with multiple locations. Otherwise it only provides demos to people in New York which doesn't really accomplish much. And even if they branch into several locations EB and Gamestop are still going to be more widespread and thus able to get demos out to a larger group of people.

I think the best way to distribute demos is through Nintendo Power. Nintendo has complete control over it and it's easily available to everyone.

As for the store itself well I don't like in New York so what do I care. A Nintendo store is a cool idea but I wouldn't want Nintendo to seriously consider their own store as the ideal way to distribute goods. If there was a chain realistically I would have to wait until it expanded into Canada, and then into BC (east always gets it before west), and then into the smaller cities since Vancouver would get it first for the province. So if Nintendo decides to limit pre-order bonuses or demos or obscure items like component cables to their stores then myself and a lot of us are out of luck. Having a novelty store in New York is kind of cool but widespread chains that are already in place is what Nintendo should focus on.

Problem is stores have been attributing less and less shelf space to Nintendo, as a result Nintendo setting up their own chain is there to augment what is found in other chains...yes just having it in NY is limited, however there is nothing to indicate that if the NY store is successful Nintendo will not expand, likely they will expand to other major metro areas, LA, Chicago, D.C., and expect Japan, Europe, Australia, and Canada to eventually see versions of the store appear if things become very popular.

Ian if this does become a chain I would expect Vancouver to be the first canadian city to get it cause its so dang close to NOA headquarters. I would love it if it became a chain. At least then we wouldn't get ripped off when we tried to buy video games.

Expanding in to New Orleans wouldn't be a bad idea. Large population, plenty of rain to grow plants, Mardi Gras (tommorow!) and Jazz Fest tourism can attract more people there, Huri. . .I mean candy canes, and perhaps a chance of me getting a job there.

Man we don't get anything down here in Georgia. At least a few times in the past E3 was in Atlanta, which takes me like 20 minutes to drive to, but it doesn't look like it will ever come back

Bah, Forget Georgia. We get nothing in Florida

I would imagine every city with a major coastal or inland airport like NYC or LA or Atlanta would prime choices for a Nintendo store.

Anyway, Ian, since it would be a Nintendo store owned by Nintendo and whatnot, they would not need to worry about contract gabbledegook with EB for demo units AND would not have to worry much about competitor vandalism, like what happened during the Xbox/GC launch. Also, demos and stuff would get there sooner because it would come directly from the source. Imagine being able to play the E3 demo of everything at anytime since Nintendo would just keep those discs from E3 and use them in the store.

Theres one big drawback with a Nintendo store and it happend with Apple and their stores. Retailers will only hate Nintendo more. Because they now have to compete with Nintendo themselves at selling Nintendo games, they simply won't compete at all and will hardly stock Nintendo products at all.

"Imagine being able to play the E3 demo of everything at anytime since Nintendo would just keep those discs from E3 and use them in the store."

Sounds great... except for the fact that I would likely have to take an hour trip to downtown Vancouver to play it. Or possibly Seattle instead. It's a cool idea but it can't outright replace the demo units at EB. It's just too inconvienent for them to limit their demos to a specialty store.

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they should open stores in every city and two per block. That's the best way to do it.

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