Nintendo of America Teams Up With Best Buy For New Nintendo 3DS XL Hands On Events This Weekend

How about NOA teams up with Best Buy to supply more Meta Knight Amiibos?

Damn I'm so close to getting all the puzzle pieces but it's obvious this must mean there'll be a new puzzle inbound.

How about NoA Teams up with itself too to do a better job?

I'm an hour away from a location. I'll pass.

@Grumblevolcano Not really, you can always exchange puzzle pieces at Best Buy. If they announced another National Street Pass Weekend, then I would agree with you.

How about Nintendo supply Best Buy with more amiibos? And find somewhere in the US to sell the Lucario amiibo already! >_<

Hoe about some limited edition, retailer-exclusive Majora's Mask amiibo, Nintendo? Say, 1,000 for all territories combined?

Still waiting on the standard New 3DS, which is the "true" New 3DS. I'm holding out until they release it, and even then I'll likely hesitate since they've been so baffling recently.

I wonder if the best buys in Canada will get this too.

Yes Best Buy always does the spot pass street pass, but if there are a lot of local people that bring their 3DSes then you'll get TONS of street passes. Too bad the closest PARTICIPATING Best Buy to me is 4 hours away.

@Grumblevolcano

I almost had all of them too... But NOA wasn't able to transfer my Street pass data when they did the system transfer for me.

Back to square one ;(

I'll toss my hat in for more Amiibos, especially the store exclusive Meta Knight. In my area it seems like the only retailer still on the ball is TRU who get constant restock of hot characters.

Of FREAKING Course the closest store that is doing this is "ONLY" 2 hours away from me...
Can't ever do one that is 2 blocks away from me!

[insert "Amiibo stock shortage" comment here]

You know, speaking of streetpass, I wish they'd allow for a queue of over 10 at a time... Events like these have you GLUED to the screen holding the R-button to fast-forward through all that Mr. Mendell take-your-time-and-have-fun and hello goodbye BS. I spend so much time per day skipping through all of this stuff when I really just want to build my army and collect puzzle pieces. Come on isn't it really all about getting all the outfits with plaza tickets?

Of course, of all places in San Diego, they choose the Best Buy located in the wealthier community.

@Daditude_ Same here. Though it would be nice to get so many Street Pass Mii characters in one trip.

@JellySplat "Back to [puzzle piece] one."

Reggie knows full well that I'm not on the fence, it's more like a bench, waiting for a bus to come...even though I've been told that my bus isn't coming to America.

Wichita? Not worth a 3 hour drive.

@Mus1cLov3r

Ahhhh... I see what you did there

None within 100 miles of my area...

Assuming the other StreetPass hits mentioned are the normal 6 Nintendo Zone hits you can get at any Best Buy, I have no interest in this event even if my local Best Buy was participating, and I'm certainly not driving the 30 miles or so to the nearest location that is participating.

I'm curious what offers they were going to offer. I need to buy a new 3ds since my launch 3ds broke in an accident. Any form of discount on console + monster hunter would be great.

How about teaming up with a responsible vendor to make sure more than enough of all the Amiibo are at market globally to put scalping the things to death. No one should feel forced to buy a new product for 3-4x the going rate due to some fool who can stand at a store the moment it opens or can sit online all day and snap up stuff as soon as it pops up off of backorder.

Uggghh I can't trust my Best Buy to do this, 60% or so of the time I go there their darn relay isn't working. Them and Starbucks I tell ya. The fact that it says "local time" makes me think I can't do the home renaming thing either.

Sigh... Idaho and their lack of this. Oh well. Last time I went to something like this I waited for 6 hours and still didn't play. I did get 3 puzzle swap puzzles complete, so I would go again.