Update 2: Best Buy website has restored many of the previous locations.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/34370
UPDATE 2: The locations for the demo stations have been revised again, restoring many of the locations that were previously removed. Updates are in the following list (in bold). It's worth noting again that you should confirm your closest store Tuesday morning.
UPDATE: The locations for the demo stations listed on the Best Buy website have changed with many places changed or removed. Each store will have a single Wii U demo station for playing the four unreleased titles that will be announced on Tuesday morning. The site also notes that you should confirm your closest store then. Nintendo will provide activities for those waiting in line and Luigi loot while supplies last.
New list of locations:
Alabama - Birmingham, Hoover, Huntsville
Arizona - Tempe Marketplace, Phoenix
Arkansas - Fort Smith, North Little Rock
California - Bakersfield, Culver City, Elk Grove, Emeryville, San Jose, Tracy, Visalia
Colorado - Denver
Connecticut - Manchester
Delaware - Concord Pike, Wilmington
Florida - Brandon, Fort Myers, Gainesville, Kissimmee, Miami, Pensacola
Georgia - Augusta, Duluth, Mall of Georgia, Savannah, Smyrna
Illinois - Bloomington, Schaumburg
Indiana - Greenwood
Iowa - Cedar Rapids, Jordan Creek, West Des Moines
Kansas - Overland Park, Wichita
Kentucky - Florence, Lexington, Louisville, Outer Loop
Louisiana - Harvey, Westbank
Maryland - Frederick, Glen Burnie, Wheaton
Massachusetts - Cambridge, Dedham, Worcester
Michigan - Ann Arbor, Flint, Grand Rapids, Rochester Hills
Minnesota - Eden Prairie
Missouri - South County, St. Louis
New Jersey - Deptford, Iselin, West Paterson, Woodbridge, Woodbury
New York - Albany Amherst, Long Island City, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Valley Stream, West Nyack
North Carolina - Carolina Mall, Cary, Fayetteville, Pineville, Winston Salem
Ohio - Fairborn, North Olmsted, Reynoldsburg, Toledo
Oklahoma - Oklahoma City, Quail Springs
Oregon - Portland
Pennsylvania - Erie, King of Prussia, Pittsburgh, Reading, Whitehall
South Carolina - Greenville, North Charleston
Tennessee - Brentwood, Knoxville, Johnson City, Memphis, Rivergate
Texas - Arlington, Austin, Galleria, Houston, McAllen, South Austin, The Woodlands, Tyler, West McAllen
Utah - Sandy
Vermont - Williston
Virginia - Charlottesville, Glen Allen, Virginia Beach, Newport News
Washington - Lynnwood
Wisconsin - Greenfield
Original story:
It's like E3 in your home. If your home was a Best Buy.
Best Buy and Nintendo have announced where you will be able to find E3 demos.
These E3 demos will be hitting 110 Best Buy stores; 89 in the United States, and 21 in Canada. The select games will be playable on June 12 from 4-8 pm local time, and June 15 from 1-5 pm local time. So far only the United States stores have been listed.
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
E3 is coming soon, Nintendo World Report will be giving you full coverage.
Really? Not in Nashville? That's the cultural hub of Tennessee.Brentwood is a Suburb of Nashville plus the most active Best Buy in this area. Also I wouldn't say that Nashville is the Cultural hub of Tennesse as much as A cultural hub of Tennessee. Its pretty well divided into 3 parts. East, West, and Middle TN. You could even argue it could be split more. I grew up in East Tennessee and now live in Midde Tennessee and the difference between the two areas is pretty night and day.
... But why even limit the demo? ...
Hopefully they'll update the participating Canadian stores soon. Although, I suppose it wouldn't much matter for me. Atlantic Canada always gets the shaft with these kinds of things. Plus I live about 150km from the nearest Best Buy.
So less than 10% of stores get these demos for a whopping 8 hours? What a waste...why even bother?We're Talking about it.
I am literally five minutes away from the only Best Buy in Minnesota to be doing this. Awesome.WHY EDEN PRAIRE!!!??!!??!
Shout out from oil country Alberta! Woot WootHopefully they'll update the participating Canadian stores soon. Although, I suppose it wouldn't much matter for me. Atlantic Canada always gets the shaft with these kinds of things. Plus I live about 150km from the nearest Best Buy.
Woot woot! Atlantic Canada shout-out!
The timeframe is really limiting and odds are the BC location will be in Vancouver which is a little out of the way for me to make a special trip. If it was the Abbotsford Best Buy that would be perfect as that is like two minutes from my house.because E3 demos don't show the game in any semblance of a completed state
A downloadable demo would be way better though if they feel the need to limit the timeframe of availability the download option would probably run into problems with too many people trying to download it at once. But why even limit the demo? So people can play the demo months before the game comes out. So what? Games like FFVII and MGS2 had demos shipped in earlier games months before release and those had no negative affect on the sales. If anything they just built up MORE hype. With the Wii U having jack **** to play right now, these demos would attract a lot of attention from the existing userbase. Out of necessity they would play the crap out of them and, if they liked the game, would be chomping at the bit when the full game came out later. But Nintendo probably thinks that people will get BORED of the demo and thus lose interest in the game, and they are the only company in the entire world that thinks that. The demo model has worked wonders for decades.
The timeframe is really limiting and odds are the BC location will be in Vancouver which is a little out of the way for me to make a special trip. If it was the Abbotsford Best Buy that would be perfect as that is like two minutes from my house.because E3 demos don't show the game in any semblance of a completed state
A downloadable demo would be way better though if they feel the need to limit the timeframe of availability the download option would probably run into problems with too many people trying to download it at once. But why even limit the demo? So people can play the demo months before the game comes out. So what? Games like FFVII and MGS2 had demos shipped in earlier games months before release and those had no negative affect on the sales. If anything they just built up MORE hype. With the Wii U having jack **** to play right now, these demos would attract a lot of attention from the existing userbase. Out of necessity they would play the crap out of them and, if they liked the game, would be chomping at the bit when the full game came out later. But Nintendo probably thinks that people will get BORED of the demo and thus lose interest in the game, and they are the only company in the entire world that thinks that. The demo model has worked wonders for decades.
They want Handlers to be their. That is the only reason to put the time limit on them.
All Best Buy UK stores closed in 2012. This is of no use to me at all.
All Best Buy UK stores closed in 2012. This is of no use to me at all.
Considering Nintendo had already announced it would only be US and Canada stores (meaning none of the Mexico stores get it), I would hope you didn't expect it anyways. LOL
Sure, remove 4 stores out of 6 from the state of Florida. It makes sense. I mean, we're only one of the largest, most populated states in the United States. It makes perfect sense why you'd cut back on your Wii U demo kiosks here when your coverage was already pretty pathetic. Man, what a waste of a potentially cool idea.
Wow. This sucks.I never noticed where they listed addresses. Whoops! I was really hoping for the Maplewood/Richmond Heights one, since it may be the closest one to downtown STL. Man, St. Louis is weird.
Hm. Something to note - the Missouri one IS still in St. Louis. Just at the "South County" location.
Same address as originally listed.
Seriously, down from 4 to a whopping 0 in Ohio. From 6 to 2 in PA, 4 to 1 in MI, almost none in California? Are you kidding me. Well Texas and New York look ok as do some smaller states but yikes, it would almost take effort to handle this worse.
New Jersey - Deptford,To clarify, Woodbury and Deptford share a zip code so that's the same store. The post office and Best Buy (which coincidentaly are like two minutes away from each other) are both located in Deptford, but for some reason, the city often gets listed as Woodbury. I never understood that growing up. I grew up in Deptford, about 10 minutes away from Woodbury.Iselin, West Paterson, Woodbridge,Woodbury
