Nintendo opens a San Francisco store that will mean a lot to fans | The DeanBeat

Nintendo is opening a retail store for its gaming gear in San Francisco today. I went to check it out early on a press visit. And even though I am too cynical to be the biggest Nintendo fan on the planet, I left with about $90.35 worth of merchandise. (Hoping my wife doesn’t read this). This is only the second store that the Japanese company has opened in the U.S. The first, in Rockefeller Center in New York, opened in November 2001, just after 9/11. For San Francisco, this is a blessing to have a new store opening, as the crowds have stayed away and the stores have been closing since the pandemic. Nintendo’s store windows have game characters marching to the front door. It’s not a huge store — about 9,000 square feet across two floors — but it’s in the iconic Union Square, just diagonal across the park from Apple’s huge store. And what the two stores share is that they are filled with products where you can tell they pay a lot of attention to detail. This store is symbolic of game ... Read full article.