The Nintendo Experience In Melbourne, Australia Has Closed For Good

We had a Nintendo experience? I never even knew this!

I went there once a long time ago. It wasn't that exciting, but it is sad that it is going. I didn't even know that they had events there. I wonder what they are going to replace it with? Probably just more of EB Games usual shelves.

I’m sad I never knew this existed - but being in Brisbane this is rather inaccessible for me. But with covid restrictions only lifting around Christmas last year, it would have been pretty hard to get any significant turnouts for most of 2020 and 2021

When the 3DS was in its heyday I used to go to lots of street pass meet ups etc. Switch should have kept street pass

Considering that most Australians would likely not want to be caught dead in Melbourne these days, this - unfortunately - comes as little surprise.

Quite frankly, I'm surprised that they were still around!

@timp29 : The absence of StreetPass, Download Play, and the internet browser are sorely felt on Switch.

Considering how often I have to jump onto a browser for Animal Crossing, it's really annoying having to cross over to another device when Nintendo's last two consoles had such functionality built in.

I went there a few times. It was a neat little space tucked away upstairs. Had a display of Nintendo consoles through the years, had demo units, and tables where people could play games against each other. A shame it’s gone out of the blue like that.

I’ve visited Melbourne a couple of times and I never knew they had this.

This sounds incredible! Wish there was something like this close to where I am, would have loved to visit it for console launches. I'll bet the 3DS launch was litttt

@Silly_G What's wrong with Melbourne?

I'm from England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and would love to understand.

I loved going here when exploring Melbourne. Melbourne has so many good video game spaces; besides the Nintendo experience there’s Fortress Melbourne which is a gamers paradise and has an awesome themed tavern, Bartronica, which has drinks and loads of old consoles and arcade games, Critical Hit, which might as well be a Pokémon Centre, there’s a hotel with Mario themed rooms, Pokémon and Animal Crossing themed bao buns and other desserts from ‘Son In Law’, permanent game exhibitions at ACMI, not to mention PAX AUS which comes to town every year. It’s a real shame Nintendo experience is gone but hopefully something else will arrive to take its place because Melbourne sure loves its games.

Went there like once or twice just to buy a game, but I don't recall it being particularly outstanding. It was tiny and I doubt it won any new customers over.

The New York branch this was surely not.

I live in Melbourne and have never heard of this place.

@Silly_G According to @Matrimla, you have an issue with the place.

It was a really cool space that we would regularly go to. Met some great Gaming & Pokemon pals there. Always loved what the Nintense Gaming crew was doing. It was the first place we learned to play pokemon casually too. It's so sad to see it go.

Is there another Melbourne?