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[wachie]

New York
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Time: 10 a.m. ET (Doors open)
Location: SECOND floor, 849 Avenue of the Americas
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Note: This is a secret venue and is not listed on map programs. The entrance is located one door south of the Hotel Eventi main entrance (towards 29th street).
Please do not arrive earlier than 7 a.m. ET, as lines will not begin forming until that time.

Toronto
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Time: 10 a.m. ET (doors open)
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Hall A, 222 Bremner Blvd, Toronto
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Note: Exhibit hall A is located in the North building. The entrance is situated at 255 Front Street West, between the InterContinental Toronto Centre to the east, and the CN Tower and Rogers Centre to the west.
Please do not arrive earlier than 7 a.m. ET, as lines will not begin forming until that time.

Washington D.C.
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Time: TBA
Location: TBA

Chicago
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Time: TBA
Location: TBA

San Francisco
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Time: TBA
Location: TBA

Los Angeles
Sunday, March 5, 2017

http://www.nintendo.com/switch/events/

 

[Cubas]

New York
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Time: 10 a.m. ET (Doors open)
Location: SECOND floor, 849 Avenue of the Americas
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Note: This is a secret venue and is not listed on map programs. The entrance is located one door south of the Hotel Eventi main entrance (towards 29th street).
Please do not arrive earlier than 7 a.m. ET, as lines will not begin forming until that time.

So should I go to line right now or what?

 

[daffy]

LOL at LA being after launch. We really have no game

 

[Captains Curse]

I was invited and just registered to the Chicago Event.

There were multiple time slots available to choose from within the dates listed below.



Multiple events from:

Friday, February 17, 2017 at 1:00 PM
- to -
Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 10:00 PM (CST)

Chicago
Revel Fulton Market
1215 W Fulton Market
Chicago, IL 60607

 

[Like the hat?]

I'm going to the 7-10pm one on Feb 18 in Chicago. I can't believe I'm going to get to play Zelda in thirty days.

 

[MCN]

LOL at LA being after launch. We really have no game

That's ok, neither does Switch.

Spoiler

/jk

 

[Niraj]

I'm going to the 2:30-5:30 session in Chicago on Feb 18th

 

[Inferno313]

Really bummed they didn't do one in Florida, or hell, anywhere in the South East.

 

[krae_man]

Oh goodie, it's going to be like PAX. "You're not allowed to get in line yet, go away" while everyone hovers waiting for the line to open.

 

[//ARCANUM]

Los Angeles
Sunday, March 5, 2017

LOL, the LA event is after launch?

 

[MageBoySA]

Sony managed to have the PSVR in hundreds of cities for multiple weekends in Best Buys. I wonder if Nintendo is doing anything like that, or is this it.

 

[The M.O.B]

San Francisco before LA? cmonnnnn

 

[BruceCLea]

LOL at LA being after launch. We really have no game

I hear you get free Rams tickets for going.

 

[Tom_Cody]

New York
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Time: 10 a.m. ET (Doors open)
Location: SECOND floor, 849 Avenue of the Americas
Add to calendar
Note: This is a secret venue and is not listed on map programs. The entrance is located one door south of the Hotel Eventi main entrance (towards 29th street).
Please do not arrive earlier than 7 a.m. ET, as lines will not begin forming until that time.
http://www.nintendo.com/switch/events/

Yeah right

 

[lenovox1]

Really bummed they didn't do one in Florida, or hell, anywhere in the South East.

When do retailers normally get demo units? Because you'll likely be able to try it fairly soon.

 

[lenovox1]

Sony managed to have the PSVR in hundreds of cities for multiple weekends in Best Buys. I wonder if Nintendo is doing anything like that, or is this it.

I'm guessing these events are going to be a scaled down tour of the large NYC post-conference event.

 

[Kaiken]

Friend invited me to one of these. Can we expect any freebies? Has Nintendo done this before?

 

[Kintaco]

Going to the L.A. event being held at my home around midnight on March 3rd. I wouldn't mind going to the actual event in L.A. had there been a plethora of games to try out, but since the games don't seem all the interesting to me except for a few, I'll just relax at home with Zelda.
This would have been a great event to attend had the Swtich had some form of streetpass.

 

[Like the hat?]

Friend invited me to one of these. Can we expect any freebies? Has Nintendo done this before?

They did it for Wii u I think. I didn't get to go to that. I did go to an event at a GameStop when they were releasing the DSi. They gave out some little trinkets. They actually took photos and had a little printer that printed them out and gave away a little dsi magnetic photo frame. I still have the picture of my wife hanging on my fridge from that.

 

[DrZeus]

Feb 19 for Chicago huh? Noted.

 

[Laevateinn]

Chicago
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Time: TBA
Location: TBA

http://www.nintendo.com/switch/events/

Sweet. I can't wait.

Weird that there's no Seattle event.

 

[Shizza]

Los Angeles
Sunday, March 5, 2017

http://www.nintendo.com/switch/events/

Guess I'm having my own preview tour on the 3rd.

 

[mr teaspoon]

Is this just early access, or will I literally not be able to play a Switch before launch?

 

[Narroo]

Is this just early access, or will I literally not be able to play a Switch before launch?

They have demo booths.

 

[ThatMattZ]

I'm going to the 2:30-5:30 session in Chicago on Feb 18th

Me too! Pretty excited to get my hands on this and try it out.

 

[SoldierOfLight]

Completely forgot about this. Did anyone get a chance to go yet? I'm still thinking of going for the one in L.A.

 

[_woLf]

It still completely blows my mind that they gave their own home base the middle finger and didn't have one of these in Seattle.

 

[RandomExpletive]

Was surprised yesterday in my electronics lab, one of our group members was on staff at the San Francisco event. He's not a big gamer but he was impressed with everything.

He was relegated to the Has Been Heroes booth, but said 12Switch was surprisingly fun, which is good to hear

 

[Niraj]

Me too! Pretty excited to get my hands on this and try it out.

Oops, somehow didn't see this, would've said hi. Hope you had fun.

Completely forgot about this. Did anyone get a chance to go yet? I'm still thinking of going for the one in L.A.

I went to the one in Chicago, it was pretty fun. You just kind of queued up for whatever you wanted to play. It was mostly open, but 1-2-Switch was in an enclosed room with a door they closed. Zelda had a big area to itself with something like...twelve or so TVs, and they had headphones so you could hear everything. They divided up Zelda into play groups and you had to get a ticket to actually play it. They gave everyone who did play about twenty minutes. Other than that you could just kind of go to whatever you wanted to. They had Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, ARMS, 1-2-Switch, Zelda, Splatoon 2, Snipperclips, Sonic Mania, Fast RMX, Just Dance, Skylanders, Ultra Street Fighter II, Has Been Heroes, Bomberman, Disgaea 5, and Puyo Puyo Tetris.