Gaming
Where to Play Nintendo Wii U E3 Demos at Best Buy
This year at E3 Nintendo won’t hold a typical big press conference, though it will do its best to bring E3 to the public via a partnership with Best Buy.
During E3 100 Best Buy stores across the U.S. and Canada will have Nintendo’s E3 demos on display. Today the company announced the 89 stores in the U.S. that will have the games available to play, though Nintendo is making gamers wait until E3 to find out what games will be there.
The Nintendo E3 games will only be in stores for a few hours on two days during the week of E3. On Wednesday June 12 gamers can play the Wii U game demos from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. local time. The second session is on Saturday, June 15. On that day gamers can play the E3 demos from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. local time.
Nintendo will announce the list of games on June 11, the same day as its pre-E3 Nintendo Direct. The game demos will likely include unannounced Wii U titles such as a new 3D Mario and a new Mario Kart, both of which Nintendo promised it will show off at E3.
The Best Buy stores that hold the demos will also have some Luigi-themed items to give away to go along with Nintendo’s “Year of Luigi” promotion as well as “hot offers on Wii U.”
Here’s the full list of U.S. Best Buy locations that will house Nintendo E3 Wii U game demos:
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
Daveman
05/29/2013 at 11:35 am
Come on Nintendo, where are those Canadian stores?
Derrick
05/30/2013 at 5:23 am
They should be on the Canadian Best Buy website. I think I saw them earlier.