The people were not. This miraculous N-in-one for very large N device was, as stated in this news article, fully and entirely an instance of software piracy. There is really no faster way to piss off a programmer than to confront him directly with wholesale thievery of his sort of work, trying to make a fucking profit ofof other peoples' software. I'm against personal piracy (downloading your own copy without paying for it- I really don't give a flying fuck if you wouldn't have bought it anyway, you don't have the right to use it without giving the developer his due) moderately, but this is the first time I've been confronted with wholesale commercial piracy.
WANT MALLET SMASH SMASH SMASH.
Not having that availible to me at the time, I have made do by merely informing Nintendo of this additional branch of this company.
Something else interesting at the mall was the reversed minority demographic. It feels weird for me and my father to be the only visible white persons. Everybody else, no exceptions, who we saw at Northwest Plaza was of clearly African decent. It was, as they say, an interesting experience...