Nintendo powers up Union Square with new store, inviting ‘more people to come out’

A HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NINTENDO STORE opened in San Francisco’s Union Square, breathing new life into the shopping destination, not unlike a gamer gently blowing into a game cartridge in the 1990s to fix a glitch. 

The store is one of the most high-profile openings in the tourist-heavy shopping district since a spate of retail closures or planned closures in recent years left the area with an uncertain future, as anchor tenants like Nordstrom’s, Barney’s, Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s and Saks Fifth Avenue all closed or announced plans to shutter their Union Square stores.