Luigi's Mansion 2 HD Pre-Orders Are Now Being Cancelled (US)

I keep wondering if it has something to do with Walmart having an online store that’s massively open to third party sellers as well, and, if to avoid confusion, is scrapping all preorders to alleviate confusion on games that can be shipped soon vs games that may be shipped weeks out.

Obviously no idea, but speculation is all we have in a wasteland of no PR responses.

Pre-ordered in-store at GameStop. I'm good...

Couldn’t find a good place to preorder online so I will likely be going to a physical store to purchase it day one. Not like there are any American preorder bonuses anyway

No big deal for this game. There’ll be plenty of stock.

Wow, twice in a row. Not sure what’s going on, this is very odd.

Strange for this one. There's not really much interest at all for this title

If I had a nickel for every time that a nintendo switch game had there pre-orders canceled, I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

Maybe I need to start pre-ordering so I can get some discounts if they're canceled.

@Birdgas It's a thought, but "Nintendo's" store on Amazon.com is the wild west. I've gotten the wrong things from there before and was unable to get any help from Nintendo customer service since it was a "third party" that fulfilled it.

I just got my copy of the Thousand Year Door this week. I probably won't get Luigi's Mansion 2 until late August maybe.

To be honest, I never understood the need to pre-order a game.

This is why you get your games form GameStop.

I need to start preordering Nintendo games from Wal-Mart. I’d happily take a $25 credit. 😂

I don't get why anybody would pre-order a mainstream/evergreen game unless there's a pre-order bonus involved. It's not like it's going to sell out. It's a freaking port of a game that was available in abundance for over a decade, and after a time, for less than half the price that Nintendo have the audacity to charge for it now (and for an arguably inferior version, depending on your feelings about stereoscopic 3D).

@Thomystic absolutely. Those third party fulfillment services have some interesting and useful applications, but I’m afraid a lot of it ends up complicating situations like this and punctual fulfillment of new products. It seems like people who pre-sell CEs of games on eBay and then cancel preorders if they can’t end up fulfilling it, too.

Kind of a mess, and complicates things for the rest of us. :/

@SillyG so, while it’s not so much part of the conversation now, but I’m sure can still play a role in shipping. Oftentimes, to avoid sunk cost on middle to low interest items, stores sometimes only order enough copies of a game as there are preorders. It’s just to ensure frugality, which I can get in the case of smaller shops or dedicated shops, but since so many places are general electronics stores now, they tend to order significant quantities.

A perk for some folks is to preorder and slowly pay off the item over time, which can just make spending more palatable, or to try to make sure that a popular item is there for them day one to snag after work or before a hiatus or something. Different reasons for different folks.

How very strange… receiving less copies than they were expecting, perhaps?

@Yousef- I was in Arifjan and Kuwait City many times around a decade ago, among other places out there. I mainly spent my time indoors, playing my PSP and Vita.

I wonder if is related to why Amazon has not had the game available for pre-order at all since the day they listed the game. Is been unavailable for both physical and digital copies for a very long time...

"See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don’t know how to hold the reservation and that’s really the most important part of the reservation, the holding.

Anybody can just take them!"

This has to be an anti scalper move. Its the only thing that makes sense

I preordered TTYD at GameStop and got my copy in the mail a day early. Curious why this seems to be a Walmart issue.

@VrginX

You're toast. For metroid prime remastered, it said it didn't know where it was, had no shipping id, and was like, "do you want to cancel it?" And I was like, ehh not really. And then it comes a week later lol

Translation: Don't pre-order your games at Wal-Mart.

Having worked at that s***hole and seen first-hand just how bad the place really is, this is no surprise to me--it's literally just a reminder.

Perhaps their slowing down production of physical Switch 1 games for Switch 2? (This is quite strange)

@PersianZSR same with my copy...

@John_Deacon

Haha good guess! it was Jerry at the car rental place 😂 great bit ✌️

I am still waiting to see why it is being priced at $59.99. What new content does it have to be priced as such.

I think that preorder have largely outnumbered the first batch of copy shipped, I've preordered it in march on amazon but as of today it say that I'll get it the 3rd of july.

isn't the reason obvious ? . . . . Walmart is run by idiots ?

@Eli0213 GameStop is never reliable. "It didn't come because our store didn't end up getting any copies/amiibo." Well then how did you let me preorder it? Also had an issue online with the Engage Special Edition. It "left their warehouse" but never was received by shipping. It was a huge ordeal to get a refund because technically it processed. Took weeks.

@VrginX confirmed from my local GS. It will be here tomorrow...