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Nintendo Shows Off Upcoming Titles at Rochester Hills Best Buy
Fans flock to Best Buy for Nintendo's sneak preview event.
Nintendo fans arrived in droves at Best Buy in Rochester Hills on Wednesday for a rare early hands-on with forthcoming video games for the Wii U console.
Representatives from Nintendo brought demos of four hotly anticipated new titles to the store on Wednesday so the more than 120 customers in attendance could play early demos of Mario Kart 8, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, Super 3-D Mario World and Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze.
The event was the first of two at the store this week—the second being 1-5 p.m. on Saturday—and coincided with this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, a top trade show in the video game industry where companies unveil new products to media and industry insiders.
This event, however, brought the games into the hands of the gamers.
Duane Hinojosa, a manager at the Rochester Hills store, said the crowds were about what he had expected for a Wednesday night, though he said he expects even bigger crowds at Saturday's repeat event.
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