Some Merchandise At Nintendo San Francisco Will Not Be Available At Nintendo New York

IGN has shared an interview with Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser at the opening of Nintendo San Fransisco, the second official Nintendo retail location to open in the US.

When asked about whether there are any plans to offer Nintendo Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto merchandise that is currently being offered at Nintendo San Francisco in Nintendo New York and My Nintendo Store, Bowser said that some products will be exclusive to certain retail locations, in order to give customers the opportunity to “feel excited” treasure hunting at various locations:

IGN: Yeah, that actually leads to another question here. I was at the Nintendo New York store a couple of weeks ago. I noticed most of what’s in Nintendo New York is also available online on the My Nintendo store. Much of what’s available at Nintendo San Francisco is not currently available online. This inventory here of things that were previously exclusive to Japan that have now come over to the States, are there plans to list those products online on the My Nintendo store?

Bowser: We plan to use all of our retail locations, whether it’s Nintendo San Francisco, Nintendo New York, or the My Nintendo store, to help us share a lot of variety of merchandise with our consumers. But we may not share all of the same variety of merchandise. So for instance, for Nintendo San Francisco, there will be unique merchandise that you can only purchase here. The same would apply to Nintendo New York, and it may also apply to the My Nintendo store. So it really provides consumers this opportunity, if you will, to treasure hunt at the various locations to find those products that they’re really excited about.

IGN also asked about the huge variety of amiibo available at the new store, which haven’t been reprinted for years in the US. It seems that these new reprints will be available at Nintendo San Fransisco for the time being, and there’s currently nothing to share on whether these reprints will be available through other retailers.

IGN: There are a lot of amiibo at the Nintendo San Francisco store as well, in some cases, ones that have not been in print for many years.

Bowser: Many years, yes.

IGN: Are there plans to put those out into wider retail, at other retail partners, or is it the idea that you come to the Nintendo store to find these now, kind of rare, Nintendo products?

Bowser: We wanted to provide an experience for consumers here at Nintendo San Francisco that would be unique, and allow them to engage in our content, and particularly find those amiibo, maybe that they haven’t been able to round out their collection with. But nothing to share regarding any plans with retailers at this time.

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