Nintendo Brings Wii Music to Malls Nationwide with Street Performances

Nintendo is still trying their humble best to get Wii Music into the public eye, and apparently they aren't at the point where they would consider a downloadable demo yet. But rather, they're going to try to sway the public by holding... street performances? 

Live musical performances have always been a fun part of the holidays. This year, Nintendo will be making spirits bright at family destinations and retail locations across the country with bands of street performers demonstrating Wii Music™.

Now through the end of the month, the family trio of music-makers will entertain shoppers by turning the Wii console into a musical instrument with Wii Music, the new music game from Nintendo. Wii Music contains more than 50 songs and lets players use more than 60 different instruments to make their music, from melodic steel drums to soaring trumpets. To play, players simply use the Wii Remote™ and Nunchuk™ controllers to make the same motions they would with a real instrument: Strum a guitar or pound the keys of a piano. The game challenges players to transform improvised notes into great music, while enabling the freedom to customize your song, instrument, genre, tempo and stage. -- Press Release

The immediate downside is, in spite of saying that the way to get people to understand the game is to get it into peoples' hands, there seems to be no mention of opportunities for people to actually get to try the game.

If you're interested in checking out the performance, however, you can find a list of locations at www.WiiMusic.com, and you can check below for this weekend's locations.

Nov. 15-16

Atlanta: Perimeter Mall Toys "R" Us

Boston: Natick Collection

Chicago: Water Tower Place

Dallas: West Village

Los Angeles: The Commons (Calabasas, Calif.)

New York: South Street Seaport

San Francisco: Stonestown Galleria

Washington, D.C.: The Market Common Clarendon (Arlington, Va.)