A temporary pop-up store for Nintendo merchandise is due to open just in time for Christmas and we can only imagine how long the queues will be.

Nintendo is, as you’ve probably had cause to discover yourself, a very odd company. We’d be here until tomorrow listing all the different examples but one of the more curious, considering how much they like money, is that until recently they’ve made very little effort to take advantage of fans’ love of merchandise.

For the longest time the only Nintendo Store in the world was in New York City and they only opened one in Tokyo (that isn’t in its own building and looks more like a pop-up store that just never closed down) in 2019. Although more recently they did add one in San Francisco and Kyoto.

There’s nothing at all in Europe but this October

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