Wii Roadshow

Star Lord

cubed3.com wrote:

According to David Yarnton, the General Manager of Nintendo UK, the Wii will be going on tour across the UK and Ireland very soon. The console will be visiting a whole host of venues in cities all over the two countries very soon and we fully expect the same to happen throughout Europe. Speaking in an interview with Cubed³ on Friday afternoon, Mr. Yarnton confirmed that there would be a Wii Roadshow that would go "north, south, east and west" and that more details would be available soon.

As Mr. Yarnton emphasised, the key factor in marketing the Wii is to get people playing the console and understanding what it is all about, but Nintendo don't want demo units tucked away in store corners. The roadshow will give the company a chance to explain how to play the Wii to people and also to do some major promotion and advertising for the company.

Sounds good, we'll get to try before wii buy!

Timans

Come to Wexford please.

It's the Home of Video Games *








*if video games means tractors..

Setun

Where do people reckon it'd be? A small section of the RDS maybe?

Creamy Goodness

it's real nice and refreshing to see nintendo finally spending time and money on europe and especially ireland.

honru

Daddio wrote:

Where do people reckon it'd be? A small section of the RDS maybe?

Nah, more like Shopping Centres. On a grander scale.

I believe the DS roadshow took place in Blanchardstown before it was released, so perhaps there.

flogen

It (the DS roadshow) was in Stephen's Green Shopping Centre as far as I remember, not sure where else though; I think they were in a lot of HMV's in the UK too..

nellyrev

i know the did Stephens Green alright, but i hope they do like The Point or RDS..

i cannot wait!!

1huge1

its either just gonna be dublin
or dublin cork and limerick thats the way it always work no?

CiDeRmAn

Lovely Jubbly, Wii gaming here we come, time to send the nay-sayers back where they came from, or perhaps the PS3 fanboys have a road show of their own, no? Aw, how sad.

Star Lord

I cant wait to get Wii in my hands! :rolleyes:

Hopefully the games that could go either way, such as Red Steel will be playable, so I can make my decision on whether to get it or not.

garthv

flogen wrote:

It (the DS roadshow) was in Stephen's Green Shopping Centre as far as I remember,

Yeh I remember that, they had a pretty big stall on the 1st floor where you could play all the games they had released at that time. IIRC that was after the DS was released though....

w3b5t3r

they're going to kick off the first of 80 worldwide roadshows at toys4bigboys in november in the rds - ireland is first for once! can't wait to see it.

eth0_

w3b5t3r wrote:

they're going to kick off the first of 80 worldwide roadshows at toys4bigboys in november in the rds - ireland is first for once! can't wait to see it.

God dammit, I don't want to pay into that retarded show just to see the Wii :-/

Kurtosis

It's only €16 in to it..question is, is it worth that to play the Wii. I might just wait til the roadshow comes to a shopping centre.

FutureGuy

eth0_ wrote:

God dammit, I don't want to pay into that retarded show just to see the Wii :-/

Is there a list of venues up yet? Where did you hear that the RDS will get it first?

Thanks!

w3b5t3r

i work with toys4bigboys - nintendo are my client. they confirmed yesterday.

koneko

Yoink, I'd be getting in free there anyway, hopefully there won't be too many scumbags hogging them though.

w3b5t3r

i'd recommend coming on the friday - it's the quietest, sat and sun are manic and for the true fans (like the posters here I assume) it'll be the best opportunity to have a good look at it.