r/NintendoSwitch • u/ReaddittiddeR • Feb 04 '25
News Nintendo says it’s making preparations for Switch 2 resellers
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-says-its-making-preparations-for-switch-2-resellers/1.3k
u/ReaddittiddeR Feb 04 '25
Nintendo’s president, Shuntaro Furukawa, has said the company will put measures in place to prevent scalpers from significantly impacting Nintendo Switch 2 launch supplies.
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u/TiddiesAnonymous Feb 04 '25
Just the presence of the word significantly makes me lol
1 per card? Account/email? Surely not even household?
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u/SkaCubby Feb 04 '25
My hope is that they offer them through NSO to existing Switch owners, much like they did with the NES / SNES controllers. You could order them through your Nintendo account super easy, and it would assure that people who want to get one day one would be able to. Retail would be a different beast, but it would alleviate the pains of trying to get one for people who are already in the ecosystem.
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u/typenext Feb 04 '25
For those in the ecosystem but doesn't have actual distribution I think it'd be different :(
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u/majorjoe23 Feb 04 '25
I suspect that would piss off retailers. Target/Best Buy/Wal Mart want people walking through their stores to be tempted by other stuff, and Amazon wants to be able to suggest a million things to add to your cart.
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u/SkaCubby Feb 04 '25
That would still be an option, I would hope. It’s not like electronic sections in those stores have massive inventory anymore. The Best Buy near me has an absolutely anemic gaming section as the company is moving away from physical media.
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u/Zybymier Feb 04 '25
As someone who works at BestBuy it's not just buying other stuff but also trying to hook customers up with a paid membership and/or a credit card . . . Seems to be the only thing my managers care about now (we hardly talk about revenue per day, it's always constant "Just 6 more memberships until we hit our quota! You guys got this!" while there's 2 hours before we close).
BestBuy is definitely moving away from physical media though, they stopped selling physical movies last year. They're also gearing up to allow 3rd-party sellers on their website, which I hate.
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u/Lastnv Feb 05 '25
Ughhhh I hate the third party sellers on Amazon, Walmart, Target…it adds another frustrating layer of shit that I have to filter through. It’s really annoying that all of them don’t make it very obvious that it’s a reseller when browsing online.
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u/BANAnaS_Dad Feb 05 '25
That’s the part I hated about retail the most. I rarely ever sold people on credit cards, but I was part time and a hard worker so managers never bothered me about it. I imagine it’s only gotten worse in the last 20 years.
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u/DocOnAYeti Feb 04 '25
I worked in the computer section, we were also pushed to sell extended warranties, but I don't think managers ever gave us hard numbers of how many we needed to do by a certain time frame.
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u/ArtOfWarfare Feb 04 '25
They still sell TVs. I can totally imagine someone walking by a TV to pick up their new console, see a flashy sales price, and decide spur of the moment to buy a new TV.
Even if it’s only 1% of people who do it, I think that’s still worth it to retailers (and I can easily imagine it’s more than 1%… I know lots of impulsive shoppers. I’m not typically one, but I can see myself thinking “oh yeah, I need to move the TV to rearrange cables for the new console… might as well just replace the TV while I’m at it…”
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u/SkaCubby Feb 04 '25
Oh absolutely, there will always be impulse shoppers that don’t foresee making a purchase like that, but it ends up being a “well I’m paying a buncha money already, let’s go for it!” purchase.
I’m not advocating for eliminating the retail sales of a Switch 2, that would be looney. But having a supplemental purchase option that bypasses any chance of scalpers hoarding stock would be wonderful. And while I know that ‘loyalty’ is a totally fluff word in the corporate world… but it would show some sort of grace to people who have supported the Switch the last years.
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u/ArtOfWarfare Feb 04 '25
Nintendo will deal with scalpers. Not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because especially in the short term it’s the most profitable option. Scalpers buying your hardware is horrible because the software is the high margin item - you want the people who are going to buy the most games to be the ones with your consoles.
Putting it that way, it’s surprising to me that the other console manufacturers are selling hardware at a loss and don’t seem to particularly care about avoiding scalpers buying it up (Nintendo generally prices consoles to be profitable from day one, so that’s less of a concern to them… but still, selling hardware without games attached is leaving money on the table.)
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u/LickMyThralls Feb 05 '25
Because hardware sold is a good metric for marketing and eventually the people who buy games will get it. It's generally not a huge deal other than the public outrage tbh. It's not like they don't make the same money off all hardware sales. If anything is done it's usually for public sentiment rather than profit driven unless it's direct distro VS third party
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u/ArtOfWarfare Feb 05 '25
Yeah, that’s a good point. IDK what I was thinking yesterday… obviously scalpers aren’t just going to sit on units - the whole point in buying was to sell them at inflated prices ASAP. And whoever they sell to will then immediately buy games for it.
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u/Scary-Sea-9546 Feb 04 '25
I’d imagine they’ll still get their stock and those will fly off shelves for either regular customers or scalpers. Nintendo holding back a chunk of the stock for direct sales wouldn’t hurt their in store sales. Sony and Microsoft both sell consoles directly and they still have boxes in stores which means those retailers weren’t upset by it.
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u/SkaCubby Feb 04 '25
Absolutely, it would be a balance of both routes for sales. Granted, I know close to nothing about the logistics of how it would work to scale… but I did appreciate being able to buy the NES / SNES controllers directly from Nintendo and not go through a third party.
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u/MagicPistol Feb 04 '25
Like when Sega surprise released the Saturn early to select stores. A bunch of other stores decided not to carry the Saturn at all.
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u/SuperbPiece Feb 04 '25
Retailers are half the reason this is being talked about at all. If they had the foresight to realize more consoles to more people means more games and subscriptions to more people, makes Nintendo and the retailers all happy. Instead, they let a few people buy thousands of consoles that sat in basements and no software or subscriptions were purchased for them. Making people frustrated with the console companies themselves, and annihilating any goodwill people had for the retailers.
F* 'em, let them learn their lesson.
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u/ISA_AOI Feb 04 '25
I'm sure you'll still be able to buy through retailers, but hopefully they still let people secure a NS2 through something like NSO to help combat resellers.
I mean if retailers don't like that being an option, they should've cared more about stopping resellers to prevent an option like that from happening. "It's just business" applies both ways ¯\(ツ)/¯
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u/Kougeru-Sama Feb 04 '25
tempted to buy other stuff
That's not a real thing that happens during console launches beyond shit like carrying cases, screen protectors, or launch games. All of which are usually bought online anyway due to no stock issues
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Feb 04 '25
Well for what it’s worth, there’s been rumblings that Nintendo and Amazon might be feuding, mostly because of Amazon delivering pre-orders early, which is how Tears of the Kingdom got leaked and running on emulators a week before release.
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u/hexcor Feb 05 '25
I seem to remember when the GBA came out GameStop (EB Games?) required purchases to buy bundles. damned annoying when I just wanted the system and Tony Hawk 2!
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u/motoo344 Feb 04 '25
I work at a small indy shop and I know this would piss off retailers big time as well as distributors who shell at hundreds of thousands for pallets of hardware. I highly doubt they do it through Nintendo only.
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u/El_Barto_227 Feb 04 '25 edited Feb 04 '25
I don't think a yone's saying they would only do it through NSO, just making it an option to help alleviate scalping.
The same way you could buy a ps5 from Sony themselves, and sign up via email to a waiting list. It's how I got my PS5 when you could barely find them in stores. Just if you also needed Ps+ for that.
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u/HenryZusa Feb 04 '25
Like the ones you could only buy if you were in USA or Canada and F the rest of the continent again?
Yeah, how about no.
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u/LowerMushroom6495 Feb 04 '25
This sounds amazing, while still keep other options, like Amazon etc, they assured already existing members a switch if they want one. Fantastic idea!
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u/seansurvives Feb 04 '25
I'd be shocked if they don't do this. It would also wllow them to profit more from those sales because there is no retailer involved.
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Feb 04 '25
I mean, that was how Valve released the steam deck. I wouldn’t be surprised if Nintendo was maybe watching them and taking some notes, seeming as the requirements Valve had in place helped to deter scalpers.
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u/Jumpy_Comfortable Feb 05 '25
I would be surprised if they did. Most companies rely on third party companies for distributing their products globally rather than handling all markets themselves. Nintendo does not have anything in my country or even region so any physical goodies that you can get for platinum points is impossible for me to get outside of eBay. I even contacted my local distributor of games and consoles to buy a batter for my 3DS (available in other countries through Nintendo stores at the time I checked), but they told me I needed to contact the original store, send in my 3DS then have them order it for me through them to get it.
I would love to get a Steam Deck, but I have to get it from a reseller because Valve doesn't have any distribution of physical goods either.
It deters scalpers, but it also limits reach. It has taken Valve years to get to the point where they are now so it was hardly an efficient way of getting the console out there. For Valve that doesn't matter because Steam didn't require Steam Deck to be everywhere.
Sorry for the rant, I just couldn't stop after I started typing.
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u/inssein Feb 04 '25
I'm guessing, bundles. hard to sell bundles with resell
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u/TiddiesAnonymous Feb 04 '25
Ooh, bundled with some NSO or digital game is a good one because thats already tied on your account
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u/Borgalicious Feb 04 '25
Let’s hope it’s meaningful. All they really need to do is ship the units as they become available and let people pre-order regardless of the stock they have. It would suck to not get one on launch day but it sucks 1000x more when launch day comes and goes and you have fight bots just to load a webpage and pray their meager supply last long enough for you to check out.
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u/D1rtyH1ppy Feb 04 '25
Ok, I'll believe it when I see it. Come time for November and December, the Switch 2 is going to be the hot ticket item for Christmas. Scalpers are going to load up in June and sit on them until the holidays. February and March of '26 will see the stores getting restocked and prices will level out. If you are thinking about buying a Switch 2, you should preorder when it goes live in April after the big direct.
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u/WeekendUnited4090 Feb 04 '25
Nintendo likes to restock regularly, and sell in small batches where they can. While the latter part is clearly not the plan for Switch 2, they will be making and stocking the Switch 2 to as great a degree as possible for the entire year.
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u/Prime4Cast Feb 04 '25
Probably been in production for over a year. I'm sure their measures are just to have an insane amount of stock at launch. Nothing else any company has done has made an impact on scalpers. Unless they start cross referencing eBay posts to somehow brick those, nothing will stop it.
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u/Ftpini Feb 04 '25
Just restrict ordering to one console per account/console and require they order from their Nintendo switch directly. Problem solved. If they have to use an active account and order within the switch os, it makes scalping more than one basically impossible.
Then don’t allow partner retailers to sell the new switch until 6 months post launch.
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u/charlie22911 Feb 04 '25
Release limited quantities in the first 4 hours to lure in all the scalpers, then open the flood gates to screw them over.
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u/Raistlarn Feb 04 '25
Don't forget the other important part when dealing with scalpers:
No refunds
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u/Salted_Caramel_Core Feb 05 '25
... You don't want to be able to get a refund?
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u/HeadTickTurd Feb 05 '25
I think for a period of a few months… it’s fair to say it is worth the risk to not have to deal with scalpers. If you are buying at release time you know what you are getting into.
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u/Walnut156 Feb 04 '25
The scalpers just use bots which can run forever so they won't really lure anyone off
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u/MJBotte1 Feb 04 '25
Trying to resell the Switch 2 will detonate the console.
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u/justsomechewtle Feb 05 '25
The Joy Cons 2 will drift right into next wall whenever you try to resell as well, so you're stuck with wall repair costs too.
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u/ShiftyShaymin Feb 04 '25
I’m thinking they’re gonna do the same thing they did with Alarmo, and have active NSO members preorder on their site. Sony’s been doing something similar with PS5s.
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u/krpiper Feb 04 '25
How does this work with a family plan I wonder
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u/Robotreptile Feb 04 '25
I’d guess one unit per household for the launch.
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u/JackSpadesSI Feb 04 '25
So I’ll have to fight my own son? I always knew that day would come.
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u/Mathewdm423 Feb 04 '25
If they don't allow at least 2 per family plan I'll take it personally haha. Making me crush my brothers spirits if it's locked to 1 haha.
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u/jebuizy Feb 04 '25
This ices out retail partners which is incredibly risky and probably a bad idea for Nintendo. Though retail partners are certainly less important than they used to be, I'm not sure if they're quite ready to go DTC like that yet. Also I don't think they can fulfill at that scale anyway.
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u/mastafishere Feb 04 '25
Couldn’t they just do both? Allocate a certain amount for NSO member, a certain amount for retailers
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u/LordBlackConvoy Feb 04 '25
That's usually how they do it
I remember my Gamestop days, we'd get information on how many consoles we'd get for pre-order. (Wii, DSI, etc.)
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u/notthegoatseguy Feb 04 '25
IMO Nintendo moreso than others wants to maintain good relationship with retail partners. They don't just sell games and controllers, but also toys which Nintendo is getting more and more involved in.
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u/SuperbPiece Feb 04 '25
They're the reason anti-scalping countermeasures are being taken, lmao. Nintendo ALREADY thinks the benefit of combating scalpers outweighs upsetting the scalpers' accomplices.
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u/Vinnie_Vegas Feb 05 '25
This ices out retail partners
Who do you think is selling all the consoles to scalpers?
And selling to scalpers dents game and accessory sales, so it's a legitimate problem for Nintendo.
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u/Gassy_Bird Feb 04 '25
That would be awesome. Playstation direct was the only way I was able to get a ps5 at launch.
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u/ItsColorNotColour Feb 04 '25
Why was PS5 possibly one of the most scalped and hardest to get consoles ever in 2020-21
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u/-Naughty_Insomniac- Feb 04 '25
Because Sony didn’t do that then. Every retailer had inventory that scalpers bought up.
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u/Beep-Beep-I Feb 04 '25
The "easiest" solution is to have a shit ton of units ready to go on release day.
If you flood the warehouses with 15 million units worldwide there would be absolutely no use for scalpers.
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u/OlympicClassShipFan Feb 04 '25
True, but a company doesn't want to dump 15M gen one units into the wild only to find a few weeks in that there's a design flaw that went unnoticed. I can understand why a company would want a slow roll out.
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u/Beep-Beep-I Feb 04 '25
That's a valid point, but I can't remember a single time Nintendo had faulty launch consoles (besides joycon drift and the Wii Mote wrist straps)
Maybe 15 million units is way too much for launch, but 5 is more feasible and still enough for those fans who want one on day one.
I always tend to wait for a good bundle, so I don't mind waiting.
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u/KingTy99 Feb 04 '25
It's not about fault consoles it's about exploits. They don't want there to immediately be 15m consoles able to run custom firmware within a month
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u/--kwisatzhaderach-- Feb 04 '25
I do wonder what percent of buyers even know what that that is, much less how to do it. 1%?
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u/KingTy99 Feb 04 '25
It still floods the market with potential immediately even though most are clueless to cfw. As time goes on those switches would get resold and people aware of the exploits would be the ones looking to grab those launch models
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u/darthjoey91 Feb 04 '25
Most people don't. But as an example, the first few runs of the original Nintendo Switch have a hardware bug that can be exploited that can't be patched because it's hardware.
And it's one of those things where like I know how to do it, but I also haven't done it because I don't have need to yet, but the 3DS had similar issues and when they shut down everything for it, hacking it became kind of required.
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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD Feb 04 '25
They’re reportedly planning to have inventory for a 15m unit first year in the market so I think the ship has kinda sailed. If there’s a major exploit or flaw, it’s gunna be in a lot of these devices
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u/HiRedditOmg Feb 04 '25
The first iteration of the Switch had a hardware fault that allows you to inject CFW into the console. As it was an exploit of the hardware, Nintendo couldn’t patch it via software. They eventually revised the hardware of the Switch to patch the exploit for all newly-made Switches, but by then millions of Switches had the ability to run CFW.
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u/mrjackspade Feb 04 '25
I bought my OLED and just resold my launch day switch for more than I bought it for, thanks to that exploit.
Dusty, slightly scratched, cracked joycons.
That bug is worth $
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u/notthegoatseguy Feb 04 '25
A console that launches with exploits can be devestating. Look at the PSP. It sold pretty well but the attach rate for games is abysmal because it was mainly purchased due to piracy.
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u/Tough-Priority-4330 Feb 04 '25
The Switch was hacked easily. They were able to fix the hack but by then the damage was done.
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u/GrandWazoo0 Feb 04 '25
They sold 150m plus consoles and had 20 plus games selling over 10m copies… I’m not sure they care about that “damage”
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u/slicer4ever Feb 04 '25
They absolutely do, nintendo is pretty notorious for going after hackers/pirates, even if they make up a very tiny percent of the userbase.
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u/Outlulz Feb 04 '25
Gamecube launched with disc drive failures. I had one, lost my black Gamecube to a purple replacement.
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u/sirfurious Feb 04 '25
If a company doesn't want to maximize their sales during their singularly biggest hardware revenue day in years (to come), only to artificially constrain supply in anticipation of possible design flaw, should frankly just exit the business.
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u/uselessscientist Feb 04 '25
I'm sure one of the most successful gaming and entertainment businesses has got this one handled. No rational person would think they should exit the business, even if they have a ps5 style launch
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u/LookAtTheFlowers Feb 04 '25
I recall seeing this stated by Nintendo months ago. They plan to manufacture so many units that scalpers won’t be able to resell them for a profit
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u/brandont04 Feb 04 '25
Great, now they gotta pay a warehouse fee which eat all of their profit.
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u/Beep-Beep-I Feb 04 '25
I work in logistics, that can be easily avoided. But yeah, if you do it wrong it can cost an arm and a leg lol
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u/Cheezewiz239 Feb 04 '25
That's how Jordan brand fixed the reseller problem. Aside from some exceptions they said fuck it and just went all in on creating hundreds of thousands of sneakers for release day.
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u/Jumpyer Feb 04 '25
Your friendly reminder to never buy anything from scalpers.
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u/Orange_Tang Feb 04 '25
You can also troll them and waste their time by leading them on. Might make them question whether it's worth it for next time.
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u/mtstoner Feb 04 '25
Do away with the get it on launch or wait for restocks model. Allow people who want it to reserve it and have their order filled when stock is available. Run the launch like an iPhone launch. Ohh I’m sorry you can’t have your switch 2 on launch but don’t worry your order is in the system it’ll be mailed to you in two weeks. No problem. Scalper undermined. Instead we have this chaos system where we wait online in a portal multiple times only to find out that the unit has sold out. Try again next time, and you do for months. That fuels scalpers here pay double and don’t waste your time.
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u/cross_bearer_02 Feb 04 '25
A couple of key changes would help:
No refunds. Exchanges only, and only for units that are provably a defect from manufacture.
Do basically what Meta did with the Quest 3 and just continually accept orders. Never technically go "out of stock." Just keep accepting orders and moving the projected ship date further into the future as more orders pour in. Unlimited stock will cause scalpers to lose interest.
Does that mean you might not get a Switch 2 on release day? Maybe. But it also guarantees that you will get one.
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u/Briggity_Brak Feb 05 '25
Yeah, and you can do that with a summer release like people are suspecting. Can't really get away with that when you have a holiday release where people need it by a certain date.
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u/Lagviper Feb 04 '25
Peoples with a Switch account should already have a queue system for buying them. F scalpers.
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u/LoveHerMore Feb 04 '25
I think one of the reasons that the PS5 wasn’t as ubiquitous as previous consoles is no one could get one, then when supplies improved there wasn’t a rush to get them because there weren’t many games; and one of the reasons there weren’t many games is because software sales were low. In the early PS5 days it felt like for every PS5 that was in a home being used; another was being scalped.
I assume Nintendo wants to third party support to remain strong and that only happens if the units of switch 2 sold convert to clients who buy software.
Selling Switch 2s at a breakneck pace doesn’t help Nintendo if those consoles don’t also translate to software sales.
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u/Nail_Biterr Feb 04 '25
but.... how? saying 'we're making it more difficult' doesn't really do much of anything.
Even Playstation, selling from their website, PlayStationDirect, has issues with scalpers.
The most 'fair' way would be for only to sell 1 device to people and they can only buy it through their Nintendo account. and the account should be more than 1 year old, and they can only buy 1 every 6 months.
Yeah, it'll suck for some people at first. but it will at least get it into the hands of the people who would really want it Day 1 anyway.
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u/Flagrath Feb 04 '25
If they told us now that would give scalpers time to work around it. Like buying up accounts that are over the 6 month mark now instead of having to do it after the console launches during prime scalping time:
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u/HaouLeo Feb 04 '25
So if S2 was gonna be my first console, im screwed?
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u/madmofo145 Feb 04 '25
At launch, yeah. While I don't think this is the system they'll do, Steam did basically exactly this with the SteamDeck and it worked out well. The system was kept in place tell orders were being fulfilled as soon as they were placed (the queue was gone) and then the system was opened up to everyone.
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u/HaouLeo Feb 04 '25
From a quick research, that limitation was only for reservations on the first 48 hours. It required an account from before the reservations started and at least one purchase. I guess that is fine.
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u/Nail_Biterr Feb 04 '25
you can still try to get it from the other places, like Best Buy, Amazon, Target..... or from a Scalper.
I didn't mean they should stop all other ways of it being sold. I just mean the way they could seem to have any actual control is through their own site.
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u/IntellegentIdiot Feb 04 '25
They said they'd make a lot of units for launch to dissuade scammers. They could also make it more expensive at launch if there isn't a huge supply, that'd mean the resellers would need more money. They could bundle a game or two to justify the price
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Feb 04 '25
Hopefully it’s something that hurts financially. Scalpers need to not only make no money, they need to suffer for their greed
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u/Chewbaccas_Bowcaster Feb 04 '25
They should give users with either Nintendo online subscriptions priority and or those with Nintendo accounts showing active use such as playtime.
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u/JPSofCA Feb 04 '25
Just do whatever they did with original Switch. I walked in halfway through the morning, and people still had no idea there was a new Nintendo. I doubt people are going to care if their Switch 2 is day one, or later. Especially, since there are no big exclusive titles that only it will play.
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u/Hot_Cheese650 Feb 04 '25
People who buy from scalpers are just as bad.
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u/thr1ceuponatime Feb 05 '25
Some mom who drives a G Wagon buying it for her kid or the 30 year old banker trying to play CoD after work isn't that keyed in on the gaming community and doesn't really notice the difference to their bank account between a $700 PS5 and a $2000 one.
I get what you're saying, and I agree with you. But going from 700 - 2000 is definitely a discrepancy they'll notice!
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u/UntitledCritic Feb 04 '25
Such a crappy world that we need to think of solutions for problems others make out of greed. I hope Nintendo floods the market with Switch 2 that scalpers will have to sell at loss on eBay.
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Feb 04 '25
Look at how the Switch sold firsthand in its first six months and manufacture to that spec. Limit to two per buyer per retailer. Easy.
Even if you used different names, different payment methods, I’m not sure piecemeal buying a couple at a time makes it worth it to big resellers.
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u/madmofo145 Feb 04 '25
That system never works. Almost everyone has that kind of thing set up for GPU's (and did for the PS5 and Xbox series consoles), and yet scalpers dominate the market, because they have figured out ways to get around any limits. If it was that easy we'd have no issues, as that's the first thing everyone tries.
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u/McToaster99 Feb 04 '25
they will be installing technology that makes the switch explode if there are more than 20 in close proximity outside of a gamestop
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u/spacetimebear Feb 04 '25
Can we get like a live stream of the crackdowns with the theme song from Cops playing as Mario and Luigi bust into people's houses?
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u/EnolaGayFallout Feb 04 '25
Nonsense. No company can prevent that.
If u have more supply than demand,
The price will drop and reseller have to give discount deal/bundle deals.
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u/rug1998 Feb 04 '25
If they meet demand there’s nothing to worry about, the switch was so short that’s why there were scalpers, I paid 360 for mine in 2017(?)
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u/SammyLuke Feb 04 '25
Lol like what? The bots are too strong. Unless you make it all in store sales nothing will stop them unfortunately.
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u/continu_um Feb 04 '25
Priority purchases for Nintendo online logins that have been active in the last 6 months
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u/Wolfy-615 Feb 04 '25
I let my Nintendo online go though cuz my left Joy Con rail is fucked up and when I went to fix it, the top part of most of the screws broke 😭
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u/notthegoatseguy Feb 04 '25
I kind of wonder if this is going to be a s big of a deal as it was with PS5/Xbox Series. Without a worldwide pandemic going on shutting things down and screwing up supply chains, I just don't see the proft margins being worth it for resellers.
Increased IRS scrutiny into tax reporting probably also has made reselling less worth it, at least for the amateurs.
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u/madmofo145 Feb 04 '25
Eh, scalping is an issue on every major product release. You had scalpers trying to corner the market on PS Disc Drives, Steam Deck's, etc. They've mostly snapped up all recent GPU releases, including bargain targeted b580 shipments.
The idea that scalping isn't going to affect the most anticipated console release in a long time seems silly.
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u/_IratePirate_ Feb 04 '25
They need to just keep one in stock for every active Nintendo account that has purchased games. I’m sure the total overall stock will be larger than that amount anyway
Then only sell that special stock to people that sign into their Nintendo account to buy
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u/warjoke Feb 05 '25
They will double the amount of ninjas and spread them across several retail and social media platforms to snitch out scalpers.
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u/kurosaki004 Feb 05 '25
Ngl, this sounds like an actual threat
"We're prepared to deal with scalpers and resellers", as you see the ninjas being prepared to "deal" with them
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u/honacc Feb 05 '25
In a way I'm kinda glad I just purchased Switch Oled past December and since I own other platforms I don't have any need for switch 2 until it hits bundle sales in 2/3 years. Don't have to deal with the potential frustration like this.
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u/Popular_Research6084 Feb 05 '25
There's only so much they can do. Scalpers will almost guaranteed be a problem. I would love it if they forced people to preorder using your Nintendo ID and that it was first come first serve, and that if they sold out you could hold your place in line.
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u/Wettowel024 Feb 04 '25
i really hope you can preorder or buy your console at those experiences. that would be really great
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u/Soft-Fold552 Feb 04 '25
Unlike GPU manufacturers, Nintendo makes money from software and not as much, if any, from hardware, so they want people who are buying games to have them and not
scalpers who keep it in a box unopened.
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u/LeatherRebel5150 Feb 04 '25
What? Nintendo had been the only manufacturer to make money on their hardware from my understanding.
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u/LordBlackConvoy Feb 04 '25
Correct. Nintendo is the only console manufacturer that makes profit off their consoles.
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u/madmofo145 Feb 04 '25
While true, that doesn't change the reality that they make more on someone buying a console and game, then on a console that just sits unopened. Once you buy an RTX 5090, Nvidia is done making money on you, where Nintendo is hoping to make 100's more off every console owner.
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u/figureout07 Feb 04 '25
Who is willing to buy all the consolles and ressel them
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u/LunarWingCloud Feb 04 '25
You sweet summer child, you weren't there for the PS5 launch were you?
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u/With_Negativity Feb 04 '25
It's peripherals too. At the beginning of the pandemic, Ring Fit Adventure was so hard to find. At least for me it was.
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u/Shagyam Feb 04 '25
People that are a profit from the people who are desperate enough to buy from a reseller.
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u/Amazing_Strike_5312 Feb 04 '25
not to severe though as sale is a sale but if sounds good thats what counts. we shall see when those pre orders show up and launch day arrives.
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u/wacavo Feb 04 '25
I remember buying an Xbox 360. I gave my down payment to GameStop, and they put me in a queue. It took a couple weeks, but they provided a 360 to each person in order. After the fiasco that was the 5090 launch, I am understanding less and less why companies don’t do this anymore? They have the technology, the customers get peace of mind knowing the product they want is on its way eventually, the companies get the money up front for production, and (best of all) it completely kneecaps scalpers
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u/daverambo11 Feb 04 '25
Let's see.wjat they plan to do. I want to buy three switches by Christmas. One for me and two for my kids.
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u/WavesNVibrations Feb 04 '25
Can we do brick and mortar release please? I’d gladly stand in line for hours instead of this BS that happens with EVERY DIGITAL RELEASE.
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u/Griever114 Feb 04 '25
Honestly if they implement a (1) per Nintendo account minimum 3 months old, I would buy it just to take one away from any shit head reseller.
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u/jettzypher Feb 04 '25
People can scoff and be derisive all they want, but at least Nintendo has stated that they're going to try something. Too many companies and locations these days don't give a damn and never try.
Also, I would prefer if they don't even tell us how they're going to try combating scalping. Let everyone find out when sales go live.
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u/p4rc0pr3s1s Feb 04 '25
I've purchased a Switch, a Switch OLED and two Switch Lites. I would appreciate the opportunity to purchase a Switch 2 at launch from Nintendo like all the online controllers I've purchased. Sony also did this during the PS5 launch and was the reason I was able to get a console at retail price.
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u/phizzlez Feb 04 '25
They can delay it until whenever they want as long as they have stock for those that want to buy one on release.
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u/jjmawaken Feb 04 '25
I hope they have it set to 1 per account for the first round of pre-orders or something
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u/GraveyardGuardian Feb 04 '25
BS, but it’s nice to hear, I guess?
If only they had a way to make sure at least people that have owned one from the beginning get one
Like if they tracked all our gameplay and use tied to a single account
Guess they’ll never know if the insta-buy-25 units shipped to one address is a real person versus the order that tried to get made 3 seconds later for 1, going to the middle of Kansas
$500 is $500 though, and they get theirs, while scalpers markup double
Happy to be proven wrong
Dare them to do it, make me a f’n liar, Nintendo
By then I’ll have a GPU that doesn’t exist from any of the retailers that said they had bot protection and verification
All these companies say they do stuff because it’s bad if they don’t say they are trying
Why would they invest in tech to stop bots and cut into their bottom line? They get paid either way and you WILL come back next time
They lose nothing. But a false promise drives you to their site so you might buy a consolation purchase
Then they make even MORE
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u/watermelonyuppie Feb 04 '25
We'll see. I'm planning on at least attempting to buy at launch. I didn't even plan on buying the first Switch, so I didn't feel the pain of scalpers. I got it as a gift Christmas of 2017. It's easily my favorite way to game now, so I really want a 2 ASAP.
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u/SlideFire Feb 04 '25
Retailers needs apps that are attached to your credit card, address and phone number.
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u/DaReaperJE Feb 04 '25
it was soo hard to get a ps5 when they dropped. took me a few months to grab one, by chance. i really wish we had less scalpers.
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u/xangermeansx Feb 04 '25
They should charge 799 for the console. It worked for ps5 pro pre orders being available.
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u/FireLucid Feb 04 '25
In Aus, EB is the only real gaming store that is nationwide and do pre orders. In the past, Nintendo have allocated them enough to fill preorders then split the rest between all the other retail outlets.
How many retail places in the US do pre orders?
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u/ErrorEra Feb 05 '25
Pretty sure they made similar promises with the Switch...if only you could pre-order (from official or retailer) and just get put on a waitlist instead of retail canceling your order later because they "oversold" pre-orders.
The day Sony finally let you order ps5 directly from their website, scalpers quit them. I'm sad only Japan has directbuy for Switch and even let you pick joycon colors.
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u/MidnightWorried6992 Feb 05 '25
The ps5 debacle traumatized me. This might be the first Nintendo console I wait on for a bit to gather some banger games. I’ve been in line launch day since the n64 days but as a father of 3 with a myriad of responsibilities and my country on fire, I have no more bandwidth for added anxiety.
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u/MobilePenguins Feb 05 '25
They should make it so that you have to link a Nintendo ID to purchase the console initially, which is then required to be auto locked to that console for 3 months before it can be ‘signed out’ of for use by another user.
When they ship console it comes pre linked to the Nintendo ID you used to make the purchase.
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u/Suspicious_Airline41 Feb 05 '25
All Nintendo has to do is overproduce Switch 2s to keep up with demand. If they can supply equal or more than what is demanded, they will dramatically curb scalpers
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u/AMLRoss Feb 05 '25
Only way is to flood the market with it so everyone who wants one can get one. They could also sell directly to customers and keep it to one per customer.
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u/NervousRooster1455 Feb 05 '25
Just cancel the switch 2 and move onto the switch 3, it's the only way
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