You may recall that, last month, there were some issues with retailers cancelling online pre-orders of the remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Walmart, for example, sent emails informing those who pre-ordered the game online that their was cancelled. When the game’s release day arrived, however, it was discovered that retailers like Walmart shipped out the pre-orders anyway.
Well, Walmart seems to be doing it again. Those who have pre-ordered Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD online are getting emails from the retailer informing them that their pre-ordersare being cancelled. Yet again, the email says that “Nintendo will only be offering this item in stores”. You can see a tweet relaying the news down below.
Nintendo has been so weird lately with preorder in regards, usually after a direct they put a list of the first party games you can preorder with the overview and etc, and we still haven’t received that on the eshop I also check the Japan and Europe as well and there’s no information there as well.
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Dang. Walmart and Amazon (ESPECIALLY Amazon) cannot keep their heads on straight with these new releases, jeez. What’s with this? They’re losing out on so much business probably. I heard somewhere it could be because of contract negotiations, and places like Amazon wanting more money pergamee and probably losing out on stock because of that.
I think I’m swapping over to just buying my 1st party games from the My Nintendo Store from here out. And maybe Target, since I’ve had some trouble with Best Buy before. This is like the 3rd time those two stores have screwed up their pre-orders, so I think it’s a safe bet to avoid them from here on out (not like there’s a choice with Amazon lol)
At first I thought it was just stock issues, but Target GameStop and Best Buy are all comfortably selling pre-orders? Kinda crazy weird when the other two chains are so big. You’d figure they’d be able to handle something like this better.
Yeah I’ve been buying my physical games from the Nintendo store ever since they started selling them. Orders over $50 get free shipping and that’s all Nintendo games by default, so it’s perfect lol.
There’s always been a bit of a divide about physical vs digital sales in regards to how much of that money actually goes back to Nintendo (and by proxy the dev teams), and I’d like to assume that buying from the online store bridges that gap. Perfect for a collector like me who still wants to support the game devs as much as I can
A very funny comment! LOL. Like!
But why though
This right here is why you don’t preorder games.