Gamer401

AAA 3rd party support for Switch is very very weak, almost to the point of non-existence. No doubt any first party software will get huge sales.

In the United States you can walk into stores and find a few Switch systems on the shelves. They show up at one store for a few days, then another them another. This has been a regular cycle for also 2 months now. My guess is that it's because of money being directed towards the summer vacation months no now children going back to school. Using an app for a store makes it easy to find them, or just walk in the store. They usually sit on the shelves for a few days until they are sold out again, but just check another store, as they will get a shipment next.

My guess is that this will continue to be the case until mid to late October.

Hats of the GameStop and TRU in the US for for having some or all of the systems as walk in preorder or day of sale walk in. With limited numbers and one person standing in line for 3 more it still stinks, but it's something. You had a better chance playing the lottery than buying online.

@Crono1973 at first, plus a few thousand more. Once there has been a day or 2 to get the orders in demand should be met, unless you live under a rock and there will be systems for most of them too. The main thing is that your fans/customers are aware and are covered.

@KIREEK I learned long ago that everything out of Reggie's mouth is a lie and that Nintendo learns nothing. Nintendo can make very fun games and innovative game systems, the rest is all down hill. When you accept that you will have peace.

For those who will line up on the release date, BE WARNED!

If you're going to line up you have to be insanely committed. 11pm may have been enough for the NESC, but now that people know how disappointing it is to show up 3 hours early, that may not be enough.

Know that one person will wait in line and then in the morning their wives, kids, and friends come get in line with them. If stores asked for an ID to make sure only one per household was first sold it would help. On top of that hopefully the weather cooperates or you live in an area where there is a good climate. Then you have stores, like Walmart, who let their employees have first dibs.

When you consider all the factors against you, bots, scalpers, family and friends of people who work in the stores, family and friends of people in line, store employees, long hours, and bad weather, etc. thinking back on it I can totally understand those who say screw it.

Someone needs to get Reggie's buttocks out there in the real world so he can understand what fans go through. The only way I can see that Nintendo could stop the madness is to continue to make the unit for a while, instead of making it limited time this holiday season only.

Sincerely good luck! I wouldn't want to be in your shoes.

The blame is on Nintendo. Do it right by taking preorders for a full day or two and THEN build to those orders, plus a few thousand more to cover defects and replacements. Let everyone sign that if they preorder you must pay $25 that you cannot get back, ever. Everyone gets a system and manufacturing is done. If scalpers want to buy hundreds let them, but the public gets what they want.

How hard is it to just take every preorder and build a few thousand over that number? 99% success rate then. Hardly any overstocks, because you have enough to cover faulty units and replacements.

@singingbrakeman I totally agree. Best Buy was a disappointment again this year, same as Amazon. Gamestop delivered by at least letting people walk in and reserve. No online system failures that the customers had to face. The employees had a hang up, but it was an easy system for me.

No pre-order notice from Best Buy, they actually removed it from my listing! Same from Amazon. Dead silence from Nintendo. I signed up for other notifications too,...and got nothing. Another failure.

Nintendo,...listen to consumers,....ROFL

They should release the SNES Classic early, as there's nothing on the Switch for me to play at the moment.

Waiting for MO, so I'm in drought country right now. Once I finish MO I'll box the Switch until MP4 comes. I'm ok with that.

Love BM0 obviously. They'll hit 200,000 before the Switch hits 1 year easily!

@darthstuey I buy titles that I'm interested in. I like open world games mostly, with a few Sci-Fi games thrown in there. I like racing games to, but not the rubber banding in Mario Kart.

When Nintendo puts out games like Pilotwings, F-Zero, Waverace, Excitebike, and Metroid I'll be back. If they ever get any 3rd party games from R*, Take 2, Bioware, or any open world games like Just Cause 3 I'll take a look. But looking at what Nintendo is doing it will be a very, very long time before I buy another game for the Switch.

This upcoming DLC is very weak. Every time I see someone overly happy xcited about this I think it's either a Nintendo plant or someone who has never gotten real DLC from another Dev.

Looks like I'm boxing up my Switch until Mario Odyssey is released. The long drought has begun.

The same was and it true for music magazines in the U.S. The music magazines in the states fail when compared to magazines in the U.K. and Japan, with Japan leading the pack on occasion for being the best. Ok, back to listening to Baby Metal and Bang Dream!

"No problem, it doesn't need 3rd party support. Oh our company? We're not gonna make games for Switch either." LOL

My left joycon doesn't go out often, but it happens at the worst times. Aka character walked off a tower. I'm 8 feet away, so this should not be happening. Also I rarely take the Switch out, but after getting the reports I took is out and the screen was scratched on both sides. The comment in the article "it's arguably been overblown" and by Reggie are giving him and the website a black eye. The problems are real and all they need to do is address it and move forward. But what was said won't be forgotten.

I never heard the claim that CDs would last forever. At some point the layers start to separate. The article didn't need the drama to be interesting.

If only the hacker knew how to get systems on the store shelves they'd be heroes.

@SuperToe What,...no Rygar?!! At least the awesome Blaster Master made the cut.

Nintendo hasn't changed the way it's done business in over 30 years. The continued failure to have enough NES Classic Editions shows that they still don't get the supply side of the business. Releasing a low processing prowered system, nothing new there. And no understanding of what their fans want and 3rd party support "might" still be issues. Good games, yes, but they are few. And if there is no 3rd party support to plug in the delay holes,...well, here we go again.

At the moment I'm Nintendomistic, but even that is wearing thin.

Nintendomistic - Not negative, but not getting ones hopes up or falling for the hype of any Nintendo game or system, due to past Nintendo business practices.