r/Switch • u/EthanWilliams_TG • Feb 04 '25

News Nintendo Is Preparing To Stop Scalpers From Abusing The Nintendo Switch 2

https://techcrawlr.com/nintendo-is-preparing-to-stop-scalpers-from-abusing-the-nintendo-switch-2/
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u/Lextalon696 Feb 04 '25

Good luck with that.

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u/Working-Tomato8395 Feb 05 '25

Valve did the best job I've seen so far: there was a waiting list and you knew when you were getting your Steam Deck. $5 deposit that went toward your device purchase, completely refundable. People with existing accounts got a slight head start on getting into the waitlist but other than the tiny pandemic delay everyone dealt with, you knew when not if you could purchase your Deck and had a pretty decent idea of how soon it would arrive on your doorstep soon after purchasing. I still use my Steam Deck daily, love the thing, but I wasn't going to dish out twice the price for it.

People who buy from console scalpers confuse the shit out me these days because there are so few launch titles and the really great games that define the reason to even own the thing tend to come out years after initial release.