Games shown at the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show are usually playable only by the few industry insiders who make the trip to Los Angeles each year. But Nintendo and Best Buy are teaming up to make sure people across North America can get their hands on a select list of Nintendo’s E3 games. Demos of the games will be playable at 110 Best Buy locations, including 89 in the United States and 21 in Canada. The games will be playable 4-8 p.m. local time on Wednesday, June 12, and 1-5 p.m. local time on Saturday, June 15. You can view the most up-to-date list, right here.
For the love of Mario!!! Please let it be my Best Buy!!!!
your lucky its in your country, i am getting fed up of gaming companies and developers treating u.k and Europe, (pal) like second rate gamers! why cant we get some of that action? come on shibata get your shit together!
It’s even worse around here you know; you might be treated like second-rate players we’re treated like we’re non-existent even though the ME region is a HUGE gaming community
Mexico? We have it tough too :(
ME = Middle East xD
Exactly, I’m from the middle east as well and we’ve got nothing going on for us here, we’re lucky if games even arrive on time.
Correct me if i’m wrong but isn’t America the biggest Gaming market? maybe thats why :)
Corection: North America the biggest Gaming market.
Thats kinda what i ment lol.
I thought it was Japan considering they get all the good games.
Well with all the Nintendo hate in the UK you can’t actually be surprised but they get some pre-order bonuses like with Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon.
pekpek!!!
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Okay. That was the link I was given. The list of stores is long so I will post them for you here :-)
Alabama
Birmingham
Huntsville
Arkansas
Fort Smith
North Little Rock
Arizona
Phoenix
California
Culver City
Elk Grove
Emeryville
San Jose
Tracy
Visalia
Colorado
Denver
Connecticut
Manchester
Delaware
Wilmington
Florida
Brandon
Fort Myers
Gainesville
Kissimmee
Miami
Pensacola
Georgia
Augusta
Duluth
Savannah
Smyrna
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
West Des Moines
Illinois
Bloomington
Schaumburg
Indiana
Greenwood
Kansas
Overland Park
Wichita
Kentucky
Florence
Lexington
Louisville
Louisiana
Harvey
Massachusetts
Cambridge
Dedham
Worcester
Maryland
Frederick
Glen Burnie
Wheaton
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Flint
Grand Rapids
Rochester Hills
Minnesota
Eden Prairie
Missouri
St. Louis
North Carolina
Cary
Fayetteville
Pineville
Winston-Salem
New Jersey
Iselin
West Paterson
Woodbury
New York
Albany
Amherst
Long Island City
Syracuse
Valley Stream
West Nyack
Ohio
Fairborn
North Olmsted
Reynoldsburg
Toledo
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Oregon
Portland
Pennsylvania
Erie
King of Prussia
Pittsburgh
Reading
Whitehall
South Carolina
Greenville
North Charleston
Tennessee
Brentwood
Knoxville
Memphis
Texas
Arlington
Austin
Houston
McAllen
The Woodlands
Tyler
Utah
Sandy
Virginia
Charlottesville
Glen Allen
Virginia Beach
Vermont
Williston
Washington
Lynnwood
Wisconsin
Greenfield
Fort Myers, Florida? YES. Thank you
I know, right?!? Nothing ever comes here!
Dammit, no Rochester NY :(
Wow for new york has some crappy places -.- why not the ones in queens? Lame i’m upset now..
Thank you so much for this, Sickr!!! :)
No worries!
Wisconsin
sickr, this is one question I need to ask. These places
Pennsylvania
Erie
King of Prussia
Pittsburgh
Reading
Whitehall
are you should those are right, because when I go on the best buy website, it only list erie and whiteball. So I really need to know if it is true, because the other places (King of Prussia, Pittsburgh, and reading) are closer to where I live. Please reply back soon.
The places listed were sent out by Nintendo of America, so they should be correct.
“Florence”
No way this is too good to be true.
“Kentucky”
FFFFFFF…
Miami?!?! Why didn’t I see that on the website? I already made a stupid angry comment lol.
scroll troll^
Greenfield? Rats. I was hoping they would do the Mayfair Best Buy here in Milwaukee. Oh well. Still not too far.
Yay I live right next to one of the stores. :)
The Woodlands!! Kick ass! I get to play demos!
HEY HEY!!! POST THE CANADIAN LOCATIONS PLEASE!!!
I am from Southern Arizona, well this just made me sad :(
Phoenix, AZ. Fuck yes!
Genius!
The Link doesn’t work sickr. It probably won’t even be my store anyway.
Oké and europe ?
I have a idea we get a download demo !
Can you post the Canadian cities? Thanks
Nintendo hasn’t announced Canadian stores yet. The link (which is down) will be updated with future stores.
Will you let us know when they are announced?
Oh….well we better get info soon.
Wonderful!
N-Dub Nation and the rest of our NA Nintendo Drones, lead our forces to victory and make sure the Xbots do not spread their diseases…
As for Europe, we have other plans…
Pennsylvania king of Prussia, yes!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Nintendo eShop called. It said it feels betrayed.
The usa department of healt said this ” walking is good for the health and human interaction is also healthy.
It didn’t say anything about plane flights though, did it? :(
*Over Train Station mic* -Attention all N-gamers, the Nintendo Hype-train will be departing in 13 days. Please be sure to prepare yourself {And your body} as tickets are being sold out around the clock. Thank you for your time.- *End transmission.*
You honor us Nintendo Hype Conductor…
I’m sure our forces will get something aswell…
Guess ill be going all the way out to greenfeild then…
hey if it was up to me i would fly out to the US just to play these… hope they do something for us in EU and AUS.
No San Francisco, CA? No Daly City, CA? but Emeryville, CA?! Yes! I won’t be ungrateful because some people are going to be out of luck here. Just not happy that I’ll have to pay $5 just to play a demo for a few minutes since there will indefinitely be lines as long as Hell’s entrance. Oh well at least I’ll get to try them out.
21 Canadian stores? Wow…. COME ON CALGARY!!
I moved from there last September I’m hoping Lethbridge!
Pffft, good luck with that one. Prob just the major cities if it’s 21. Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, one in Sask, Winnipeg, prob a couple in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, Halifax. Maybe it’ll spread to some of the smaller cities as well, but Lethbridge would be low on the list. Come make a trip to Calgary during E3, just over a couple hours.
”Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum ^_^ ? …… Can you borrow me £1200 to go to America please?”
”Buuuut muuuuuuuum :( !”
Only in America…..
*IS sad now.*
teoOctober 11, 2007oh shit..that blows..i say u keep all ur mario pics up if its not illegal..make a scene lol u’ll defifnitley get recognized..maybe the nintendo corp will pay u off or something
I think Europeans might get something similar in one form or another. Maybe a Demo tour or something like that , I don’t know. TBH i’ll be fine just hearing peoples opinions and reactions from the US anyway…
Please west palm beach
balls! my city isn’t on the list.
guess i wont be playing Most of stores seem not to be in urban ares, , me in Detroit . Nearest two places are far one in ann arbor, mi not close other out of state in Toledo, ohio 45playing minutes away, WTF.. :-\ side note when nintendo was traveling or nintendo experience or what ever it was called wasnt no where. Near Detroit, mi Mayb thier marking team say thier is not no demographics area here
I feel your pain man! I’m in Detroit too but should be moving back to CA before June 12th. I was expecting them to have one at Roseville or Dearborn, MI for sure. Rochester Hills isn’t that far though I’d go there if I were you before going to Ann Arbor that’s for sure.
They said that the demos’ll also be coming to 21 locations in Canada! Please let the Calgary stores be one of them!
last month old news WHERE WE
stupid phone WHERE WERE U WHEN THEY ANOUNCE THIS?!?!?!
Damn it! California gets the cities far from me! Yes, I’m a Californian.
No ones perfect.
Only in Denver? Sorta long drive but fine. Wonder how many people are going to be in that BestBuy that day?
Ohio has my back! That best Buy is only 20 min. from my place! SCORESCORESCORESCORESCORESCORE!!! *insert Steve from American Dad GIF here*
No Clearwater Florida?Aw man.It would be nice if they could put the ezclusive games on the wii u eshop.
What was that supposed to mean, Macarony64?!
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Wow. Go Nintendo.
YESSSSSSSS i get play pikmin, mario and much more can’t wait my mind is literally blown with happyness. i’m happy nintendo made this move
I live in south Florida and the only stores are way up north >.< Nintendo better put the demos on the fucking eShop.
Never mind. Apparently one is in Miami so i’m good, lol
So none of them are near Miami ? I live fairly close to Miami.
The cities in Florida are:
Brandon
Fort Myers
Gainesville
Kissimmee
Miami
Pensacola
And I live 15 minutes away from one of the stores :)
Hmm the best buys that is close to me is about 1 day and a half away…ehh it’s worth it. *gets on plane*
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YES! Finally managed to find a Best Buy 12 minutes away from my sister’s place (I’m visiting for the week). Should be able to stop by one of those days.
My only gripe with their execution is making it only happen for two days which are frankly only known by us, the current customer base. The point of this move is to not only give people a chance to play what’s at E3 but give the general public exposure to the Wii U. The most effective way to do that in this situation is have those demos be playable Tuesday through Saturday. As is when word of mouth is spread the friend may not know when they should come and end up missing out.
Hopefully the representatives are very good at getting that info out to those playing so that’s not a concern. Too, if people do flock to Best Buy on Saturday an active crowd getting around a Wii U would be good publicity. It’s instinct for people to look into a crowd, mainly due to curiosity. I do hope these demos become available later via the eShop for anyone who may have missed them.
You want MORE PEOPLE in the line? Lol then you would never get a turn.
Oh of course as soon as I move something actually comes to my town for once. Oh well, there’s a possibility I might be in St. Louis that weekend so maybe I can go to the best but there.
Nintendo is dead to me if not one Canadian store gets listed.
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There’s one near me! Man I really can’t wait for E3 it is going to be amazing this year!
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Seriously? Amherst, NY? Nintendo, I don’t know what I did, but whatever I did I hope I remember to do it again!!!! Can’t wait!!!!
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