Nintendo of America has introduced plans to open an official retailer in San Francisco.
Primarily based in Union Sq., Nintendo San Francisco will open in 2025.
The shop will likely be solely the corporate’s second official retail location within the US.
Its first official retail retailer launched in New York’s Rockefeller Middle in 2005.
Nintendo additionally has three official shops in Japan, primarily based in Osaka, Tokyo and Kyoto.
Whereas its synonymous with video video games, Nintendo has an increasing IP enterprise that now additionally contains blockbuster movies, theme parks and extra.
“We’re really evolving into being an leisure firm with gaming as a nucleus of the general enterprise mannequin,” Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser informed the Washington Put up final yr.
The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film was final yr’s second-highest grossing movie ($1.36 billion) globally behind Barbie ($1.45 billion), and Nintendo not too long ago introduced that a Legend of Zelda film is within the works.
It’s additionally at the moment within the means of increasing its theme park presence with Tremendous Nintendo World at Common Epic Universe set to open in summer time 2025.
The Nintendo Museum in Kyoto is excepted to open later this yr too.
Nintendo confirmed this month that it would announce its subsequent console this fiscal yr, which means the Change‘s successor will likely be revealed earlier than April 2025.
