GameStop To Offer Additional Switch 2 Units In-Store And Online At Launch

That's sweet! For anyone who hasn't got the chance to pre-order one, this is your chance.

So tye event begins in store at 3PM the say before launch June 4th. So does the line start forming then, or bracelets that let you leave and come back?

I was at the Smash game release way back when, and I think they only opened at 8PM, not 3.

Guess we still have a few more weeks to figure it out.

I'm still waiting for my invitation from Nintendo Shop ...

@Scarmucci arent we all 😔😿

Still not getting it now, I'll need more money lol

*Offer good while supplies (and mandatory accessories) last.

If you're from Ireland, Smyths has pre-orders available again.

@CurryPowderKeg79 like, one in a million haha

the US video game retailer GameStop has announced it will be offering additional units both in-store and online at launch.
How is one to even know if they even have a chance?

@Scarmucci @CurryPowderKeg79 I just got an e-mail from Nintendo a couple hours ago reassuring me I'm still in the queue. Either of you seen this?

Edit: Sorry, meant @OctolingKing13, not @CurryPowderKeg79

Yeah I am strolling in during my lunch break. Hoping they will be sold out of the extras by then. At least the horrors of the Wii launch are behind me.

Honestly, I might have to hold off on getting a Switch 2 now. Having spent several hours in the ER today, now I am going to be socked with a bill likely in excess of $400, even with insurance applied. Such are the joys of the American healthcare system. 😭

@speed_loafer i did, i hope they can gget to us quickly. might be going to a midnight launch if not 😝
@AstroTheGamosian oh no hope youre okay 🙁 yeah the american health system is a yikes 😿

whoo yooo!!! now wen i go pick up mario kart world,street fighter 6,cyber punk 2077 and guardians of azuma ill surely pick up the switch 2 as well.

@speed_loafer I got the same email! I already have a preorder through Walmart but I’m still hoping to land one from Nintendo for a friend.

I also got the "don't worry, you're still in queue" email from Nintendo.
Plan remains to try local retailers in person on 5 June, as Nintendo has no timeline.

@speed_loafer I got the same email from Nintendo earlier today. When I saw it at first I thought I was one of the chosen few but alas the wait continues.

@speed_loafer thanks for the tip, hadn't seen that email.

Even though I might not get it at launch, I much prefer the guarantee and security of ordering through my Nintendo.

It is not worth it to me to try to wait in line for at a store for ages to maybe get one. I’ll get one when Nintendo eventually invites me someday.

@derickw69 yes at first I was very excited by the email… and then I read it…

It's weird... During its earlier years, GameStop used to be filled with great employees and even greater managers. Used to get freebies and information all the time from them.
Then suddenly, they were filled to the brim with people who knew nothing about video games (the great managers were either fired or "promoted" to handle stores out in the middle of nowhere), knew nothing about the pre-order process (giving your paid-for items to other people who demanded them), and some were even willing to make backdoor deals with scalpers.

Now, long after its glory days, as it starts to fade into the endless night... GameStop is back to being kinda cool again. Don't think I've walked into a single store run by an employee who doesn't generally know about the products they're selling, in recent years.

Fortunate to have 2 pre orders locked in. My original preorder with Argos from April and Nintendo Store UK this week. One for me, one for my son.

Fingers crossed for anyone still trying. I think there will be a handful of walk in stock on the day but you will have to be quick which will be no surprise.

If you live in the UK and missed out VERY. CO. UK has 2 - 3 different bundles still available for release day delivery ❤️

@LittleBe4r

I can't belive people were already paying over £500 on eBay before it has even come out.

@OctolingKing13 Well, the doctor thinks I'm okay. I was having some pain in the left side of my chest, but fortunately, the EKG and blood tests showed up as normal, and the X-ray didn't show anything out of the ordinary (which is good news for me, because I'm a bit of a worrywart, with my first thought being a tumor). They think that my rib cartilage is inflamed, so they are limiting me from lifting anything over ten pounds (4.5 kilograms for those who use the metric system) for a week, and we'll go from there.

But yeah, $400 (not including the $150 copay) is pricey. Yeah, I have the money in the bank, and I no longer have any major debts (like student debt) hanging over my head, so I can easily afford it. But I'll have to hold off on certain frivolities for a few weeks, since that's over half of a paycheck for me. Meaning my girlfriend will likely be cooking for us when I go to visit her instead of me going out and grabbing something for us. And no buying a Switch 2 at launch.

Both options have been available all week in the UK on the Nintendo my store.
And still are right now.
Seems a lot easier to preorder one now.

I think I’m getting one on day of release will not be that hard.
Don’t forget it is not Christmas and it’s more expensive than the usual sort of £260.

The console and say one game is nearly half of a thousand pounds, that’s like wages money people.

Most of my family have switch of some sort and enjoy them.
It’s has sold so well, but there is only just me with a preorder for switch 2.
Of course I have mentioned it to them but none are in a rush to buy switch 2.
Most say they are happy with switch and some mention the cost of switch 2.

Outside of us nutty gamers and to reach the highs of Switch, believe me when I say this, Nintendo will have their work cut out.

@speed_loafer I also got it

Nice of them to offer.
Not so nice that their site will probably be randomly cancelling orders again because of a total crash.
I lost out on a massive deal because the order was randomly cancelled by the presumably overloaded database, and I was told I put in wrong information, in spite of it being the same as other successful orders, and customer service was not even allowed to parrot the info I provided that was "wrong" back to me. Because apparently, the employees do not have enough freedom to do their jobs.

Cool. More opportunities for people to feel the anticlimax after playing it for an hour.

@OldGamer999

personally ive never found the switch to be "lacking in performance" for my usage but there are 100 different things I'd change about it.... and none of those were changed for switch 2 😆 some are actually worse! like the price, the size (its fn huge 😮‍💨) and the way they are handling eshop (and "physical") games now.

I always want the best for Nintendo, and in my opinion, we get their best when they are struggling for market relevance and constantly evolving and trying new things ✌️ not when they are winning the money race.

(PS - I have eagerly awaited every Nintendo console release since SNES. this is the first time I've felt "ho hum" about one, and the first time ive felt it so strongly within the actual fandom, from others. If enough people buy the thing, Nintendo doesnt care, but I want them to care, see? 👍)

@Spartan48

LOL I can NOT tell where your sarcasm/irony level is at, at all. 😂 well done!

@-wc-
Nice to see someone actually get me on here and what I’m saying and you summed it up with what you said.
Yes the fandom for Nintendo is crazy at times like Nintendo can do no wrong.

I feel Nintendo and Sony are roughly in the same place, they have sold loads of consoles and racking in the cash and have got slack and are both at the top of the tree in their respective areas and cruising it.

This creates smiles for them but also complacency which leads to more cash for us to pay for probably less.

When Sony and Nintendo have good competition and are up against, we really seeing them trying to gain market share back and both really and do great things.

This generation with Sony and Xbox and now Nintendo with switch 2 it’s an up hill struggle with all three of them, jsut dancing their own tune and doing whatever they want without thought for gamers.

@OldGamer999

I have to wonder what the likes of Miyamoto et al really think privately about how things are going.

Does he personally believe that Wonder is just as good as SMW? or that TOTK is super compelling moment-to-moment? this is the man that wont sign off on a new FZERO game because there arent any "new ideas" or whatever, yet TOTK is just fine? Splatoon 3, animal crossing NH, all blue sky innovations that earned their existence through pure inspiration?

Does he actually buy the line that Switch 2's big Nintendo-worthy "innovation" is that it can play new games that Switch can't?

or is he a businessman who happened to be a great game designer in the 80s-90s, and now he's "made it" and that's what matters?

Hey Harry old buddy old paal...

@father_noo wow what’s your problem? Why do you have to be a total bummer

@jon128 I had the same roller coaster of emotions. At first I was like hell yeah then it turned into well damn

@AstroTheGamosian I have had similar symptoms, on and off, for a few decades (I’m 50+). Initially I also was deeply concerned, very much as you were, and quite reasonably.

In my case, as perhaps in yours, the issue appears to be costochondritis. Quite annoying and sporadically rather painful, but not at all dire. There actually is a subreddit for it, with some chronic sufferers recommending various treatments. But mine seems to come and go on its own, without much special intervention. Once in s great while I have taken prescription analgesics for a limited time. But never anything such as opioids or the like.

@OldGamer999 I think they will eventually upgrade. Nintendo doesn't want all 150+ million users to upgrade at once, especially when Lite customers don't have a successor unit yet either. Wait until 2027 when the Lite 2 gets released, wouldn't even be surprised if an OLED 2 comes out then. Nintendo is going to move everyone to the Switch 2 architecture, it's when people decide they want to upgrade.

@8bitKirby Oh be honest. We've all been through it.

@-wc-
"...we get their best when they are struggling for market relevance and constantly evolving and trying new things ✌️ not when they are winning the money race."

They occupied a neat spot for 8 years, right? Nobody was doing it like them. Not sure I want a Switch 2 to play digital games. No rush at this point.

@progx
It will slowly but surely happen.
But it’s more how many will convert.
Or how many will just leave all together.

£400 is a lot more than base £260 also with cheaper games.

@OldGamer999 yes, but they will be upgrading the Lite. That won’t start at $449. Likely when V2 and OLED have been EOL’d, the base Switch 2 might drop and OLED 2 and TV-only will fill out the family of devices. Nintendo is hitting the same market that Apple, Samsung and many other smartphone/tablet makers rely on, they will pay more for a device that’s better than what they have. Tech people (such as me) are a super minority.

@progx
Really wished they had done a TV only version on release for about £300.
Would have been a great option for us docked only players and a cheaper intro to switch 2.
I would have gone TV only at £300.

@OldGamer999 I hope they do a TV-only version, I would feel compelled to play Nintendo games on my TV more than I do with the hybrid. We’ll wait and see if it happens, there were rumors on and off for the last few years of a Shield-TV type device, but it never came out.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it did come out this time. The Apple TV device is a Trojan horse for Apple to get into gaming, so I’d think Nintendo would like to dominate your TV as a set top box replacement for those type of devices.

At this point, maybe I will get to watch the NBA finals...

@progx I highly doubt they would ever do that. They created the Switch Lite because there's a viable market (esp in Japan) that likes to have smaller, portable gaming devices, which could be offered at a cheaper/more affordable price.

If you don't want to play it as a handheld simply never remove it from the dock.

People don't get it still OLED at current size will price out anyone wanting one. The Tech cost too much to make a OLED and most here probably never went to the Live Events to see that the LCD has HDR/VRR/GSync something a OLED doesn't have and would make the Switch even more expensive. Alot of those that got into the Live Events has already said it's visual and brightness is better the the current OLED display. So why are people asking Nintendo to make a $600 Switch 2 or something.

At switch 1 launch some people pre ordered at the local game shop, too. It was fun to see. "Yes, you preordered. Yes, you paid. But we are already out of stock." Saying that people where pissed is an understatement.

Gamestop is sold second hand games around 2 Euro lower than new games in the Mediamarkt basically downstairs.

Now they are closed. I wonder why?

@sfb I'm 32 years old myself. And costochondritis is actually what I was diagnosed with. The best way the doctor described it is like carpal tunnel of the chest. So just like how repetitive motion in your hands and wrists can give you carpal tunnel, repetitive motions in your chest can give you costochondritis. And my day job has me doing a lot of repetitive motions, especially with heavy lifting.

They also prescribed me an anti-inflammatory and told me to use ice and heat. But since I can't really have an ice pack or a heating pad while working, I have to use lidocaine or menthol gel for pain relief. And it did seem to do the trick for a bit. But as long as I don't strain myself, it should hopefully resolve itself soon. As it is, I have a work restriction to where I cannot lift more than ten pounds (4.5 kilograms for those who use the metric system) for a week.

@Regulus6891 Thank you. I wish for a speedy recovery myself. It's not fun being injured like this. But it only reaffirms for me the need to get a job that is less physically taxing. Really hoping that Nintendo will select me for an interview for their localization team (applications for which are currently available on their website), at the very least; I never made it past the application stage in the past.

@larrythumbs

"They occupied a neat spot for 8 years, right? Nobody was doing it like them."

Sorry, what do you mean by this? 🥴✌️

"Not sure I want a Switch 2 to play digital games. No rush at this point."

Lol Is there a carbon monoxide leak in here? It's like I see the words but I don't quote get what you are saying 😆 I swear im not a blubbering idiot. ✌️

@Geit_de

"see, that's the most important part of the reservation. the 'holding.'

anybody can just take em!" 🤌🤏👌🤏

@AstroTheGamosian Interesting. I think I was in my early-mid 30s when I first got costochondritis symptoms myself. Not really sure what triggered it in my case, as I wasn’t doing anything strenuous on regular basis.

Anti-inflammatory meds do seem to help me when I get a flare-up, which thankfully is not very common. My most recent bout was probably my worst to date, and took several weeks to subside. Meloxicam was the NSAID that I used recently. Always need to be careful not to use more than one NSAID at a time. Though, from all I have read, it is OK to use acetominophen and an NSAID concurrently, if it helps for pain relief.

In my case, temporarily sleeping on back through the night also helped, as opposed to sporadically turning on my side. At my worst - for a few weeks, I slept with a large wedge pillow to “force” my sleeping self to stay on my back. After I got better, I stopped doing that.

The subreddit I mentioned has tons of discussion about further remedies. Hopefully you will be better within a few weeks, and not need to research further. But if it drags on, or if you want to hear from others, the subreddit might be an interesting resource. Best wishes to you.

@sfb Same with the Meloxicam. They also told me that I could take ibuprofen or acetaminophen along with the Meloxicam. My problem is I tend to be a side sleeper. And I think my sitting posture also puts pressure on my sternum, because I can feel pain in my chest when slouching. So I'm gonna have to do a LOT to get some relief. I hate getting old. 😭

@SausageWearer not really and you don’t get to speak for everyone. I don’t even know if I’m really playing the day it comes out. I’m just buying it so I can get one and I have to worry about it anymore.

I'm quite surprised but the perceived shortage of stock in the US. In the UK, I have been able to comfortably pre-order 2 units and could have pre-ordered a couple more. The UK is one of the largest Nintendo markets, and demand is high. I am guessing the UK must be a priority market for Nintendo based on the % of profit it makes (more than Japan and the US). Even though pre-orders do sell out quickly, we are getting really good restocks, and Nintendo even let me pre-order a unit just for being an NSO member without any other requirements this week.

Despite Nintendo's higher profit margin on the UK units, the £396 price point is very good for a dual-purpose machine. It's also cheaper than both the base PS5 and Series X consoles. I do expect the base console to go up to £430 or even £450 within the next year, though.

@-wc-

No? They just sold more than they got. Other companies do it the clever way. They use 50% for preordering (without paying) and 50% for store selling.

Nothing is worst for a shop than having customers leave without the product they already payed for. At least in Germany the are more or less gone for good.

They make it seem like they'll have enough for people to casually stroll in and get one. And we know that won't happen!

@8bitKirby You're buying one just so you don't have to worry about it anymore?

@CurryPowderKeg79 more like one in a million

@outsider83 preach it brutha

I won't have the money for it until late June and just barely. Hopefully, my brother will buy me Mario Kart World for my birthday a few days later.

The pedant in me really wishes they'd get the timezone right. It's 12am EDT / 9pm PDT, not EST/PST.

🤞Heres to hoping the Greatest President of the US makes it to where this trash cant come out