DashReindeer
Lead Community Manager, Outpost Games
They should be,as the Amazon/NoA feud seems to be a thing of the past. Amazon has been selling Nintendo hardware directly for awhile now.
But we have absolutely no idea when these pre-orders are going to go live on Amazon's site right? Every time I've been told I could get something Nintendo related on Amazon, the site gets so much traffic that the product page crashes and I completely miss out. If I rely on getting this from Amazon and fail there, am I SOL in general? It honestly seems like a riskier strategy than just waiting at a brick and mortar store for it to open up and making sure I'm the first in line to sign up for the pre-order...
If pre-orders go live on Amazon immediately following the conference on the evening of the 12th, then great, I'd hope I'd be able to snag one, but otherwise, why are we confident this will work for everyone?