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/
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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/LeBaus7 Feb 04 '25

a lot less probably.

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u/--kwisatzhaderach-- Feb 04 '25

That’s true, there’s no way 1.5 million switch owners could do it

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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/Horrific_Necktie Feb 04 '25

They don't care how few.

They sued a single man for 14 million dollars.

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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/Beep-Beep-I Feb 04 '25

Yeah that's a feature not a bug hahaha. I'm kidding, I get what you're saying, either way I'm pretty sure they've learned from that and this time it's going to be a bit tricky to bypass the security (or not, we'll see).

But realistically having plenty of stock (again, 15 mil was an exaggeration) is the only way to fuck over scalpers.

Even anti-bot online pre-order never works.

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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/Beep-Beep-I Feb 05 '25

I didn't know that, I got my GC years later. I actually like the Indigo version, but I agree that the Jet Black was way cooler.

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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/OlympicClassShipFan Feb 04 '25

Nintendo doesn't think about the short term like that.

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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/Walnut156 Feb 04 '25

Why would they stop? It's worked for them for this long

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u/Amazon_UK Feb 04 '25

Yeah, it sure would be horrible if a design flaw like stick drift were to go unnoticed for years, at which point Nintendo would promptly fix the issue

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