Super Mario Bros. Wonder Demo Available At Nintendo Switch Kiosks Across the US

looks like its time to head down to my local target and see if i get lucky!

Looks like it's identical to the Nintendo Live demo. Wonder if it'll also drop digitally

Me and the boys going to target: 😎😎😎

I’d love it if that demo came to my living room. ❤️

I mean, Best Buy and other associated stores with Switch kiosks had a Super Mario Odyssey demo before the game ever came out, and it never came to the eShop. I wouldn't hold my breath for a download of this.

Lucky! In the UK I don't think game kiosks even exist anymore? Has anyone seen one lately? Don't remember seeing one for years.

@Devann True but Nintendo releases a lot more eShop demos than they did back when Odyssey came out so it's possible. 🤞🏻

Meh. The game comes out in less than 2 weeks, so with it being this close to release, I'd rather just wait. My nearest Target is over an hour away. Now back in E3 2013 when Nintendo had demo kiosks at Best Buy for Super Mario 3D World, Tropical Freeze, and I think a couple other games months before they released--that was a cool promotion! (Not that I got to go to that either, because Best Buy is also over an hour away and my parents were probably too busy at the time to take me.) But it was so awesome Nintendo was making an effort to bring the E3 experience to the masses. Wish they did something like that again.

There's actually a reason demos aren't distributed much online, and TV Tropes says why: if a demo includes Dummied Out data from the final game, data miners can uncover spoilers for the final game and release them in the Internet. While removing said data is an option, it can greatly increase the work needed to create a demo since it requires the demo to go through additional testing to ensure the removal of supposedly non-required assets doesn't have unintended consequences.

Yeah, I kind of want to wait until me and the kids break open that new copy in a couple of weeks. And then of course play SPIDER-MAN 2 after they go to bed! ; )

@epicgamner If they have a Starbucks inside try around there, the caffeinated girls are much easier to chat to.

Really should drop this on eshop worldwide.

This weekend the Dutch gaming conference "GameForce" is in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, including a Nintendo booth with the demo of Super Mario Bros Wonder playable.

Nintendo are also going to demo the game at EGX next week, I am looking forward to having a go.

That being said, since today's Friday, I'm gonna go get fast food for lunch, and I'll swing by my nearest Target (accessible by foot by a mile) and see if the demo's there.

@Not_Soos Same man, my nearest target, best buy, and gamestop are all 45 min to 1 hour away and the funny thing is they are all in the same area so one isn't closer than the other.
The only store that I can get games at (that isn't sketchy) is Walmart (our gamestop closed down), other than that I got to order online.

@GalaxicGlobe My situation is pretty much identical haha, except our local GameStop is still up and running. I prefer doing business with Walmart when I can though, because GameStop is... GameStop. But yeah, Best Buy and Target are pretty much right next to each other albeit they might actually be closer to an hour and a half away, to be honest.

Good news: my Target does have the demo.

Bad news: someone’s already playing it.

@Not_Soos Yeah gamestop is...… questionable.
When my local gamestop was around I traded in Mario maker like 3 times because they kept giving me broken disks and they told me that it was my WII-U.
3 copies later they finally gave me a working disk, good memories.

@HenryKibble Aw man... at least you know its there!!

@GalaxicGlobe Actually I did manage to play it, only finished the first two levels before the game closed itself (it's timed).

I tried the first level of the demo at a Gamestop yesterday. It controls just like you'd expect. I stopped after one level because I didn't want to see anything else. Super excited for this one.

@HenryKibble Was it fun? If you play the game really fast could you do more levels or does it stop you at 2?

@Clyde_Radcliffe Yeah I think they're pretty much extinct on our grounds, shame really.
The last time I remember seeing one was around 2014 in Toys R Us with a selection of Wii U demos to enjoy!

@GalaxicGlobe I did play fast, and it stopped as it loaded the third level (which was the first of the "open map levels" where you can walk around anywhere without a set path)

There's a Target about 10 minutes from where I live so I drove over today to check out the demo. Think Nintendo's got another hit on its hands.

I played 2.5 levels of this yesterday so spoilers from demo ahead.

I’m less excited for the game now. Maybe I need to read the previews to see if any Nintendo reps answer my questions, but my biggest concerns were the focus on multiplayer and the badges.

I get it, multiplayer is fun for most. I won’t be doing it online or off, but it really feels like a big focus in a way that you feel you’re missing out by playing single player. I’ve played every 2D Mario, so maybe I’m burnt out but I just wasn’t having a blast. I also don’t think the elephant power up is as big of a deal as they’re making it out to be.

Regarding badges, if there aren’t specific levels that require them to access specific secrets in a level, then they feel like they only serve as another way to distinguish yourself in online play. There are levels where you can earn a specific power badge that are designed to utilize that power-up, but unless some later levels say “Hey, you might want to go get such and such badge for this level,” then they don’t serve much purpose in my eyes. I’m waiting for reviews at this point to see if these concerns are addressed, because if it’s a game where most of the fun is expected to come from multiplayer zaniness, I’m okay holding off and playing some other great hits this holiday season.

EDIT: Just read NL’s preview and nothing there really settled my qualms. They think the badge could be used for secrets, but I said, that would require the game to give you a notice before (which I didn’t see). Otherwise you play through the level and see some spot that can only be reached by a certain badge and then you have to replay the level over again for that one spot, and that’s always fun. Idk, I hope I’m wrong or at the very least I can convince my wife to join me, but… less hopeful overall.

For me as a Mario Lover, this is the least exciting game ever. It’s New Super Mario Bros. again. Why?

@sportvater Nothing about this game resembles NSMB except maybe the physics, which is not an issue considering those games controlled very well.

@TotalHenshin Unlike NSMBW and NSMBU, the game imo feels just as fun in single player. It doesn't feel like I'm missing out.