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GameStop To Open 1,000 Nintendo Switch Reservations At Random In Stores on Saturday
- Thread starter That Damn Kid
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....the fastest way would be not to hold back stock period and to just let the stores sell the preorders people are already looking for lol
zekeknight
Neo Member
Mr Fahrenheit
Member
This is probably one of the dumbest promotion... event.... things ever thought up, at least by GameStop. I'm guessing the idea is to lure people into the store, $300 in hand, and when they don't win (the privilege to buy an item at full retail?) they'll instead spend it all on used games and power up rewards cards for the whole family.
What happens when you refuse? Can you switch to another prize?
i HeaR MusiC
Member
You guys do realize that it's ProDay and they are trying to get people in the stores right? Crap load of deals that they want to lure people out for. Good for business.
Community Forum
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4,000 stores, so there is on average of ONE preorder for every 4 stores.
Doctor_Thomas
Member
No, Nintendo are just notoriously bad at being able to correctly stock things.
This is a legacy issue they have where they seem to think "less availability, more demand" going back to the NES days.
With the Nintendo Classic Mini Europe a had sick issues. But for the Switch, not so much.
Artificial Demand.
please come back in a week or two after launch. I'm sure we will have some used switches for $10 off!!!!!
I never got an email on this! lol
I know EB used to overextend itself with console pre-orders then there'd be a big wait list and walkins were told to buzz off for a couple of months. I know that happened here with the 360...
I still think that's the best approach though, the only people it negatively impacts are the ones late to the party anyway, and luck counts for less than diligence.
I still think that's the best approach though, the only people it negatively impacts are the ones late to the party anyway, and luck counts for less than diligence.
Fastest is not the same as Fairest.
I dislike shopping at Gamestop too, but people in this thread are just looking for any reason to hate them it would seem. Gamestop probably got word from Nintendo that they'd have an extra 1,000 units and this seems like a very fair way of selecting 1000 more people for preorders. How else would you even do it? Just allot 1 per store? How do you decide which stores are getting left out? Giving 1 more preorder for 25% of your US stores and having multiple people line up for 1 seems bad.
For people who didn't actually read: you go in on Saturday, signup on a list, they'll email/call you if you're selected and you just go and pickup your Switch on the 3rd if you were one of the lucky 1,000.
FarFromAnyGame
Banned
Nintendo fans are so easy to take advantage of.
Doctor_Thomas
Member
Nintendo in Europe doesn't have the same appeal as it does in the US, the NES Classic was just really limited quantities anyway.
I think Switch preorders not doing as well in Europe is something similar to why Xbox doesn't do well in Europe. During the "console wars" Nintendo treated Europe like crap (we missed A LOT of SNES games that appear on essential lists all the time because of the distro channels and multiple languages), so it never really took off the same way as the US. Europe leaned more towards Sega because Sega were willing to put that time in.
Master System sold something like 6.8m units in just Europe, NES shipped 8.6m for the rest of the world outside of the Americas and Japan.
Mega Drive sold 6.9m in just Europe, SNES shipped 8.5m outside of the Americas and Japan.
This is why Nintendo don't really hold the same weight in Europe and a lot of people lack the nostalgia the US and Japan has for Nintendo products (even if I do rate the SNES as the best console ever).
Yep, hold back 1000 pre-orders so they can dangle a carrot on a stick and get people through the door to try and sell them a bunch of other shit they don't want.
mocolostrocolos
Member
Fucking disgusting.
fabricated backlash
Member
Wait what?
WouldYouKindly
Banned
Meh i literally just canceled my switch preorder with them last night ill get one once mario drops. Tgis sounds like a really dumb promotion tho
opticalmace
Member
Sounds like something Gamestop would do..
Well yea, but they sold out all over the world in less than a couple days. This was weeks ago.
Visualante2
Member
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Sammy Samusu
Member
Lol
lifetimeofnot
Member
Its for "pro day." There event where they put things on sale to celebrate people who have pro memberships.
That Damn Kid
Member
So...did anyone actually get one?
zelhawks37
Member
Lol Gamestop. They come up with some.... interesting ideas.
Except if they only have 1000 more to sell, how do they distrubute those as to not have a lot of pissed off people who came in early to get in line and still didn't get one. Or stop any chaos if people realize how short stock each store has and tries to bully their way up front. Or have people accuse them of not even having any to sell and teasing them (with 1000 only there will be a lot of disappointed people and few who actually manage to get one).
I can see why they went with lotto when they have that few available.
7DollarHagane
Banned
It would have made sense if it was 1,000 people selected who registered to be interested in pre ordering a switch console.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Yeah, I'm just going to waste a portion of my day going to GameStop to see if I won the honor of preordering a Switch.
Why not just put them on their site like they've been doing and let people run wild. They have over 4,000 stores, but only 1,000 more.
SlasherJPC
Banned
It's just the logistics of it is dumb and it's only a way to gather more people to get more money in order to have someone randomly win a chance to spend money. It's just utterly ridiculous. Lol
Marty Chinn
Member
How does it work in Europe? Do they let you preorder with no guarantee to get one at launch and you'll get it when stock replenishes if you're that low on the list? The US is more or less sold out of every launch unit from preorders. There's no more preorders available and they don't preorder unavailable allocation.
Forearm Star
Member
They did they're initially preorders when right after the Nintendo event.
This is probably them getting an additional 1000s skus and wanting to give everyone and equal shot at them across all their stores.
They should probably just open up another wave of these 1000 preorders online and just be done with it. Far less headache.
Okami Haundo
Member
Simple answer: they want people to go to their stores and buy a Pro Membership. That's about it. The chance at a pre-order is open to everyone because they just want to bring people into the store. You can't have a sales person push X, Y, or Z thing for an online order.