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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. Man I wish it was here in Cali by SpikeSpiegal · · Score: 1

    I wanna go so bad!!!

    1. Re:Man I wish it was here in Cali by Gamelore · · Score: 2, Funny
      Let them have it.

      We have the Metreon Playstation store :)

  2. In other words... by FAUrrego · · Score: 1

    ...If you dont live near New York City, you're fucked!

    1. Re:In other words... by MyDixieWrecked · · Score: 1

      So THAT'S what Nintendo World is........

      We did banners for "Nintendo World Rockefellar Center May 14th 1-5pm" banners at work a couple weeks ago. I was googling and everything for info on it and couldnt' find anything.

      At least I finally know. i was gonna head down there on that day to see what it was.

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  3. 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.

  4. I guess Californians buy enough Nintendos by ravenII · · Score: 1

    Why the hell is in NY, should have been SF or LA. I want GT4 on my GC.

    1. Re:I guess Californians buy enough Nintendos by Gothic_Walrus · · Score: 2, Interesting
      That post doesn't make any sense at all.

      Nintendo already had the store space in NYC; if I'm not mistaken, this store was the old Pokémon Center.

      The store's location doesn't have anything to do with regional sales, though. The store isn't in NYC because people there don't buy enough Nintendo products. If the Gamecube was unpopular in the city, then why waste the effort to open a store that's dedicated in large part to it?

      And GT4 will never be on the Gamecube. Ever. Sony owns and publishes the series, so it's going to be a cold day in hell before a Grand Turismo game jumps to the Cube.

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    2. 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.

    3. Re:I guess Californians buy enough Nintendos by DeadScreenSky · · Score: 1

      And it still will never show up on the Gamecube. :D

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    4. Re:I guess Californians buy enough Nintendos by Gothic_Walrus · · Score: 1
      Exactly. By the time that happens, the Cube won't be in production anymore.

      I win on a technicality! :)

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  5. Correction time! by Gothic_Walrus · · Score: 2, Informative
    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. :)

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    1. Re:Correction time! by snuf23 · · Score: 1, Funny

      "so yo should be ashamed of yourselves"

      Was not an error by the parent poster. He was simply "keeping it real" and showing his "street cred".
      "Yo, yo shout it out to my homies back in the trailer park, rocking with Kid Rock."
      That sorta stuff.

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  6. Bonus! by Carlbunn · · Score: 1

    Bonus ponits for using googlemaps to show the location ;)

  7. I love Nintendo but really... by onetwentyone · · Score: 1

    how long will it be before this store closes? It just doesn't seem viable to me to operate such a large store at the location they are shooting for. Granted if all they are looking for is a place to showcase all things Nintendo, why not build a museum and offer a giftshop?

    1. Re:I love Nintendo but really... by jm92956n · · Score: 1
      Normal rules don't apply in Manhattan.

      A new building was recently put up on the south-west corner of Central Park (the Time-Warner building). The top floors are residential, and the top two floors sold for a combined 44 million dollars (making it the most expensive Manhattan real estate purchase ever). A STUDIO apartment in the building sold for over 1 million dollars.

      The mid-section is all commercial space, and the bottom 3 floors are for stores. Samsung has a massive "showcase" on the third floor that's open 5 days a week. I went in there one day and it was really cool. They had cell-phones and laptops that were Asian-market only, and they had some massive LCD TV's.

      Know what they sell there? Nothing. All you can do is walk in and look around. There's a ton of salespeople, but they don't actually sell anything. You can ask lots of questions, but can't buy a thing.

      Their intention was to raise awareness of their brand and, while I'm not sure how they're measuring it, I'm sure they can justify the massive cost of the lease (probably around 40k per month). Nintendo can do the same thing. If they sell a few Game Cubes while they're at it, so much the better.

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  8. 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.

    1. Re:Eternal Darkness too by Minced · · Score: 1

      I own both and I have to say...ED was a hell of a lot scarier...take ED as what you will. ED was hard on content but soft on the graphics.

  9. It's already open by RaboKrabekian · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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    1. Re:It's already open by radish · · Score: 1

      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.

      Sounds cool. Think they'll mind if I take my PSP? ;)

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    2. Re:It's already open by RaboKrabekian · · Score: 1

      Sounds cool. Think they'll mind if I take my PSP? ;)

      I brought mine in yesterday. If I go tomorrow I'll bring it to see if anyone else has one and wants to play, not to try to show up Nintendo or anything. I just don't own a DS.

      Anyone up for some Hot Shots?

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    3. Re:It's already open by radish · · Score: 1

      /me loves Hot Shots :)

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  10. NYT's article without registration/login by antdude · · Score: 1

    Click here. :)

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  11. Re:Second Store? by astrokid · · Score: 1
    No, they closed down the Pokemon center back in February to make renovations for this place.
    Halfway down the page
    The Pokemon Center NY store closed their doors last month for renovations and was announced that it will reopen in spring 2005.

    So what do we know about the store's future?

    On Nintendo's official job listing page, it is currently listing an opening for a Retail Store Manager and a Retail Assistant Manager for the location at Rockefeller Center, New York for what it calls a "Nintendo concept store" (which is also where the Pokemon Center NY store is located).
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  12. Captron World of Nintendo! by vistic · · Score: 1

    I remember having a Captron World of Nintendo store in my local mall... got to see such things as the Game Boy and the Power Glove!

  13. Re:Nintendo?! by bitwiseNomad · · Score: 1

    Hahaha. You're funny.

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