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Nintendo World Store to Open This Weekend

Posted by Zonk on from the for-all-your-mushroom-needs dept.

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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  1. Resident Evil 4 by dmaduram · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No really cool games, unless you count dumbed-down disney-quality children's games

    /sarcasm

    Yes, Resident Evil 4 is a crappy kids game:

    it's not enough to call Resident Evil 4 one of the high points of the series, because this is probably the single greatest horror-themed action game ever created. Resident Evil 4 is an amazing achievement in a variety of ways, especially in how its inspired, state-of-the-art cinematic presentation works so well with its relentlessly exciting, white-knuckle action, all of which is wrapped up in a decidedly lengthy adventure chock-full of hidden secrets and bonus extras. It obviously isn't for the squeamish or for those otherwise not qualified to play this gory, mature-rated GameCube game, which is too bad for them, because it's hard to imagine anyone else not being consistently thrilled and impressed by what Resident Evil 4 has to offer. (Greg Kasavin, Gamespot, Editor-in-chief)

    And yes, let's totally forget about Metroid Prime 1 & 2 -- the Gamecube is an Easy Bake Oven, after all...

    /sarcasm

    1. Re:Resident Evil 4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Nooooo, don't encourage these people to think! Then the gamecube userbase will be flooded with angry teenage boys :(

      At least when they're all using the XBox, we know where the larger selection of glitzy-but-substanceless games will be going. The gamecube is the gaming industry's best kept secret.

  2. Eternal Darkness too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    One of the first great games for the Cube was Eternal Darkness, so it's not like RE4 just swooped in during these latter years to show a darker side.

  3. Re:I guess Californians buy enough Nintendos by Metroid72 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Dude, never say never.

    Back in 1992 I said the same thing about Sonic The Hedgehog never making an appearance on a Nintendo console.

    Of course, Sega has been traditionally worse managed by Sony. But you never know. With all 3 consoles converging in the same technologies (Power Processors, PC-grade graphics cards) and with the rising cost of making a game, I believe that a common gaming development platform is not a crazy idea.