Topic: Nintendo Switch 2: Your biggest fears and concerns!!

Agree with this. Scapling will always exist. It sucks but requiring a NSO sub will kill the launch numbers imo and likley cause the next fake outrage on Socials. I prefer to pre-order my stuff from BestBuy for store pickup personally. I don't want my switch 2 sitting on my doorstep while I am at work. It's a me problem by just how I feel.

@LordDieALot That could very well be just be for online preorders. I don’t know how it will be handled for in-store preorders.

@Rainz That's not a real option here for most. You can always resell the Switch to get Switch 2 so that logic isn't grounded here. If you want to wait that is your choice to do that but leave that choice to each their own. I know people whom have 2017 and they are ok with that but might go to Switch 2 possibly. I currently have upgraded to three OLED(Splatoon, TOTK, Pokémon) and will not sell these as they are collectors item now. We know they will update Switch 2 with OLED assuming it doesn't put out of reach of the general consumers - they are the bread and butter for Nintendo. Just remember LCD 2017 isn't LCD 2025 that's a fallacy is what it sounds like but couldn't be farther from the truth. But no one is complaining about Portal that uses LCD right?

@LordDieALot NSO doesn't always require subscription you also created your Nintendo account and they don't charge for that and they can use that to verify that is a live person as well. So it's not a paid NSO but NIN account that wasn't DayOne created to do scalping they can verify as well. And your CC/Debit will link to a actual person and if it was a online created they will also check and verify whom is the real identity of the user to stop Scalping bots.

I'm very much working on the assumption that scalpers will win unless Nintendo purposely goes out of their way to make Switch 2 a console that you don't need to buy day 1.

@Grumblevolcano Another check is those with Smartphone has a Nintendo app they can also use that to verify the registered user as well. So that will prevent Scalper if they have to show here's my account to verify it's a single buyer.

@MrCarlos46 I always pre-order online for in store pickup at Best Buy. I think Target is the only other place that allows that. Gamestop has tried but most just go to the store to pre-order I guess.

Call me old-fashioned but I don't see Nintendo just releaing this on their own site to give the finger to scalpers. Losing Gamestop, BestBuy, Target, Walmart pre-orders on launch would hurt them imo.

I'll get it no matter how they choose to sell but I can't see them going the NSO route.

@LordDieALot Even if Nintendo does the NSO for My Nintendo Store preorders route, it won’t even work in the long run as scalpers could also just make multiple bot accounts getting NSO to preorder them.

@MrCarlos46 Yeah. That is why I think it will be a normal release.

This is true, but the less than 2 years I took to get a Switch in the first place meant the entire Switch generation I've barely played games the year they came out and will be catching up with even just first party games/3rd party backlog for years and years after Switch 2 comes out. So waiting even longer I'm iffy on, especially with multiplayer games where playing them when they're new is part of the appeal. (doubly so for any game that isn't a massive hit and thus might not have a large audience in 3 years)

Also the battery life should've been better on day 1 either way.

Also I've thought of another issue. Between Smash, Warriors, Zelda and Xenoblade, i don't need more Nintendo series to be drowning in endless content. People who want Mario to be open world next time need to be stopped. Mario Odyssey already killed my interest in 100% every 3D Mario, doubling down on that would suck. I want no more or possibly less Nintendo games to that absurd. Give me my 15-20 hour games instead.

@kkslider5552000 HUH? What you like isn't what others like and more people bought Mario then didn't buy. So no sure why one opinion would make one a authority of games sales. You can choose to not buy anything Nintendo while the rest will buy what they want that's what it is. But your in a minority since the market shares show clearly going the other way. But your wrong games are going going or having OpenWorld Theme so one can cry spilled milk but that is what is coming our way.

So no one here with smartphone has Nintendo App? You can make many accounts but your payments will rat you out as that will be connected to one name and you can't lie as if you do your bank will flagged as Fraud.

Yea, it's gonna be a normal release. I'm gonna preorder mine through Gamestop just like I did with the original Switch. It was painless and I got it on launch day.

Honestly, the only real solution to scalping is for people to control themselves and not buy new launches from scalpers.

After scalpers get burned for hundreds or thousands of dollars multiple times, you'd see the practice change real quick.

But then again, look at horse armor and where we are with DLC these days. People just can't help themselves from making stupid money decisions (myself included sometimes lol).

Given that Nintendo seems to be making a large stockpile, what if they do both? They could sell both via Target etc. and also directly from the Nintendo website. Which is actually what they do right now with Switch 1 (they didn't used to sell Switch directly from their website; I'm not positive when they started but they do now). If they were going to sell some from their website but most from stores, locking Nintendo.com pre-orders to NSO accounts in the same way they did Alarmo wouldn't be crazy. People who don't have NSO could just buy from stores.

If Nintendo.com is still an option, I'll go that route. The GameStop and Best Buy near me have both closed down since 2017 so I don't have any easily accessible game stores anymore.

10000%. They will most defiantly sell on Nintendo site. I never thought they would not. The exclusive only on Nintendo sold was my hang up.

Sucks to see stuff close. All the gamestops near me are gone. I have a Best Buy and that is it.

The GameStop I used to walk to as a kid closing was a sad day. So many fond Memories of that store and Nintendo 64. Ocarina and Starfox are such complete memories for me.

Given how long this thing has been in production I am not at all concerned about stock at launch. Scalpers will give it a red hot go I'm sure, but I expect they'll find themselves sitting on units that people can easily just buy at a retailer

.... unless there are colour variations with one colour being vastly more popular than Nintendo estimated. Then all bets are off

I heard alot of them closed and some were close to me driving distance that is but one that I frequent is a large seller and that is why they are still there. I'll have to if there is preorder there make it there to get those in....hopefully....

@LordDieALot They’ll probably end up doing both.