Nintendo World Store to Open This Weekend

LordJezo writes "The New York Times is reporting that the Nintendo World Store is set to open this Saturday (May 14th) in Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Set to be a 10,000 square-foot Nintendo store visitors are promised exclusive Nintendo merchandise and the ability to test out the latest and greatest Nintendo products.IGN is also reporting that the grand opening party will include 'game kiosks, giveaways and gaming competitions, and even the chance to play against a celebrity'." Because nothing says legitimate like Kid Rocking playing Metroid.

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Correction time!

[Gothic_Walrus]

Because nothing says legitimate like Kid Rocking playing Metroid.

Um...no.

His name is Kid Rock. There's no such person as Kid Rocking.

I know that he's from the area around my hometown and all, but I still think that that one shouldn't have gotten through. First time I've ever been compelled to correct the editors, so yo should be ashamed of yourselves. :)

It's already open

[RaboKrabekian]

It actually opened up today,b tu the event isn't until Saturday. I work in Rockefeller Center, so I took a stroll through it this afternoon.

It's pretty cool. There are TONS of stations set up to play Gamecube, DS, and SP games. There's an area set up on the first floor with a round table and a bunch of DS's so people can easily play wirelessly with eachother. There are also SPs and DSes hooked up to monitors to play (the DSes have two). Then there are there uber surround sound chairs with large screens for Gamecubes, as well as E3-boot like Gamecubes hooked up to LCD screens.

Lots of Pokemon stuff of course, and a large accessory section.

The Nintendo museum thing is all right, but it's not very big. It's itneresting to look back at old NES hardware, though, especially the Japanese-only accessories like the keyboard.

It's worth stopping in if you're in the area, but it's not worth planning some big road trip to go see.