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Re: E3 Best Buy Demo Locations Revealed
« Reply #50 on: June 09, 2013, 09:29:36 PM »
Wow.  This sucks.

Hm.  Something to note - the Missouri one IS still in St. Louis.  Just at the "South County" location.

Same address as originally listed.
   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.
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« Reply #51 on: June 09, 2013, 09:46:52 PM »
Good to see Erie, pa still there

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« Reply #52 on: June 09, 2013, 10:16:33 PM »
My nearest one went from 70 miles away to like 125 miles away. No thanks.

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« Reply #53 on: June 09, 2013, 10:49:55 PM »
My nearest is 135 miles away.  And I'm going without a second thought.  If I wasn't working the first day, I'd probably try to go to both. :D
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Re: E3 Best Buy Demo Locations Revealed
« Reply #54 on: June 09, 2013, 10:59:15 PM »
Mine hasn't changed. Still going there, still finishing puzzles, probably playing 3 of the 4 demos because I have enough Luigi platforming on my plate thankyouverymuch.
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Re: E3 Best Buy Demo Locations Revealed
« Reply #55 on: June 10, 2013, 09:40:38 AM »
I just got a Euphonium and I have recording that night.  So I'm probably not driving to Gallatin.  It's an hour away at 60 miles. (Irony the other location was 45 minutes away at 26 miles...) though its through Nashville so that will probably balloon and getting lost.
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Re: E3 Best Buy Demo Locations Revealed
« Reply #56 on: June 10, 2013, 10:26:39 AM »
So now not even FIVE PERCENT of Best Buy's will have this promotion going on. And I thought it was pathetic before...


Also, from what the rumor mill says, the demos will be for games that are almost finished and will be out this summer (Super Luigi U, Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Wind Waker HD). If that's the case, it eliminates the argument that the demos must be tightly controlled because the games are in an early, unstable state. All four of those will be out within months, which means most of them should be quite polished at this point.
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« Reply #57 on: June 10, 2013, 01:13:10 PM »
St. Louis location has officially been changed to the Brentwood, MO store.
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« Reply #58 on: June 10, 2013, 01:35:13 PM »
Langley location works okay for me as I have friends in Langley and often hang out with them on Saturdays.  Though I have been very busy the last few weeks and if the work doesn't let up I won't be able to do anything social.

If it's stuff that's due in the next months, eh, if there is a lineup, what's the point?  I'm sure Pikmin 3 demos will show in stores pretty soon anyway (and if Nintendo followed industry conventions the downloadable demos for these games would be showing up soon as well).  When they first announced this the hope was that Game X would be revealed for the first time at E3, be playable at E3 AND be playable at Best Buy.  That would be awesome!

Nintendo was on to a cool concept here but the execution just hasn't been there.  And if the demos do not need to be tightly controlled then restricting this to Best Buy is 2003-thinking (as is having a narrow time limit and having only a fraction of the Best Buys be included; if they're stable releases just send them all on discs in the mail).

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« Reply #59 on: June 10, 2013, 06:10:55 PM »
that is BS they removed the best buy form virginia beach and placed it in newport news
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Re: E3 Best Buy Demo Locations Revealed
« Reply #60 on: June 10, 2013, 06:13:12 PM »
There weren't any around here anyway, and now there really aren't.

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Re: E3 Best Buy Demo Locations Revealed
« Reply #61 on: June 10, 2013, 07:52:14 PM »
I may still go to the one in Schaumburg (only half an hour further from Madison than Greenfield, oddly enough). We'll see. There is something to be said for the social aspect of it, as well.


Actually, I went to the link again and it looks like Southridge (Greendale, WI) is back on the list. I'd say if your store was ever on the list, call around and ask.


Snapshot (as of 7:20 pm CDT Monday-crossed off means I didn't find them at this time):


Alabama - Birmingham, Hoover, Huntsville[size=0pt][/color]
 Arizona –
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 Arkansas - Fort Smith, Little Rock, North Little Rock
 California - Bakersfield, Blossom Hill, Culver City, Elk Grove, Emeryville, San Jose, Tracy, Visalia
 Colorado - Denver
 Connecticut - Manchester
 Delaware - Concord Pike, Wilmington
 Florida - Brandon, Doral, Fort Myers, Gainesville, Kissimmee, Miami, Pensacola
 Georgia - Augusta, Cumberland, 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,Garner NC, Pineville, Winston Salem
 Ohio – Beaver Creek, Fairborn, North Olmsted, Reynoldsburg, Toledo 1
 Oklahoma - Oklahoma City, Quail Springs
 Oregon - Portland
 Pennsylvania – Century 3,  Erie, King of Prussia, Pittsburgh, Reading, Whitehall, Wyomiss/Reading
 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, W. Broad
 Washington - Lynnwood
 Wisconsin – Greenfield (Southfield)
 Wyoming (State listed, no stores)
[size=0pt][/color]Let me know if any of those are duplicates. As I said, best to call your store and confirm.[/size]
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Re: E3 Best Buy Demo Locations Revealed
« Reply #62 on: June 10, 2013, 09:21:24 PM »
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.

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Re: E3 Best Buy Demo Locations Revealed
« Reply #63 on: June 10, 2013, 09:23:34 PM »
Georgia and Tennessee are really rocking it though. Well no, no they're not either.
Edit: kind of new to posting, if that's a new list in the most above mine then nevermind for the most part.
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« Reply #64 on: June 10, 2013, 09:27:16 PM »
if it was this and then some travelling E3 demo van type deal i would be fine but this is getting stupid...

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Re: E3 Best Buy Demo Locations Revealed
« Reply #65 on: June 10, 2013, 09:30:35 PM »
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.

The listings keep changing. The current listing has 4 in Ohio, 5 in Pennsylvania, 4 in Michigan, 6 in California.
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« Reply #66 on: June 10, 2013, 10:16:59 PM »
Glad I put all that effort into creating the Facebook event pages. >:(

I wonder how much of this is Nintendo and how much is BBY.
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Re: E3 Best Buy Demo Locations Revealed
« Reply #67 on: June 11, 2013, 12:58:05 AM »
Hey guys, the list got updated. Staff just reposted the article with the new list.
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« Reply #68 on: June 11, 2013, 02:43:47 AM »
Yes! Sandy is back. Looks like I'm going after all.

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Re: E3 Best Buy Demo Locations Revealed
« Reply #69 on: June 11, 2013, 07:03:31 AM »
What. A. Mess.  Either way, if the demo list doesn't include the new 3D Mario I'm not sure if it's worth me driving an hour.
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« Reply #70 on: June 11, 2013, 08:46:10 AM »
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New Jersey - Deptford, Iselin, West Paterson, Woodbridge, Woodbury
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.