Still can't get a Switch

[lupi]

I've been able to walk into my best buy and see them in the display case for the last 2 months.

 

[Ackmed]

Wife wanted her ring cleaned, turns out a prong was bent. So took 4 hours instead of 5 mins. Went across the street to the mall to kill time, checked one Gamestop, no Switch. Checked the other, they had 6. He said he didn't know they were getting them till 830 last night. Got it, an extra controller, Zelda, and Mario Kart. Someone finally had one. My LG 65" OLED is a little over kill for the Switch, but still looks pretty amazing. Haven't customized the video settings at all yet.

4 hours ended up costing me a bit though. Dillards had their 40% end of the month sale, got 3 pairs of shoes, two jackets, more clothes, ugh. Then a purse in another store. Was supposed to be a quick stop for a ring cleaning, ugh. But someone finally had one. And I bought what is probably at least the 12th copy of Mario Kart in my life time. I hate going to the mall, its a trap.

 

[Batmeat]

I got an extra one at the nintendo store. Neon joycons and NIB.

If anyone wants it I just want what I paid for it. Thought it was going to my sister and my nephews. She put the hard no on that lol.

ARMS has been better than I expected but Mario Kart is epic. Preordered Splatoon 2 after playing these switch games.

Finally GOT ONE!!! Special Thanks goes to drbrock for it too.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

If anyone is still looking for one Gamestop seems to have them in stock. Nineteen Gamestops within 20 miles of my house show the Switch with Gray Joycons being in stock on their webpage.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Yes, the switch seems to finally be starting to be in stock at most places. All the price gouging frenzy of reselling them seems to have dropped off over the last month, and those people have stopped buying every switch they were allowed to buy at the stores.

 

[purbeast0]

Wouldn't you look at that ... supply has increased a couple months prior to Mario coming out.

Coincidence?

 

[sdifox]

If anyone is still looking for one Gamestop seems to have them in stock. Nineteen Gamestops within 20 miles of my house show the Switch with Gray Joycons being in stock on their webpage.

Why are there 19 gamestops within 20mi of your place?

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Why are there 19 gamestops within 20mi of your place?

Because they have oversaturated the market? I don't know how they're still in business.

 

[KentState]

Why are there 19 gamestops within 20mi of your place?

Really close to that many where I live. Google maps shows over 20 within 20 miles of where I live. Then again the northern Atlanta area has a ton of population.

 

[purbeast0]

Why are there 19 gamestops within 20mi of your place?

21 within 15 miles of where I work.

 

[Oyeve]

21 within 15 miles of where I work.

94 for me.

 

[Fallen Kell]

I have 21 within just 10 miles....

 

[zerocool84]

I've seen them in stock now everywhere I go so it seems like they are finally catching up with stock.

 

[gorcorps]

I've seen them in stock now everywhere I go so it seems like they are finally catching up with stock.

Good

I really like mine, and if more people jump on it and the userbase expands maybe we'll see a little more 3rd party support.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I've seen them in stock now everywhere I go so it seems like they are finally catching up with stock.

Hopefully it becomes easy enough to find that Nintendo bundles Zelda or Mario Odyssey with the system as a Christmas promotion to drive sales back up.

 

[Sonikku]

Hopefully it becomes easy enough to find that Nintendo bundles Zelda or Mario Odyssey with the system as a Christmas promotion to drive sales back up.

Wouldn't matter. Bundles save you money no longer. Now all they do is include all the items for the exact same total cost as buying them separate. I long for the days when getting a Super Nintendo with two controllers and Super Mario World together was a better value than going with the bare bones "Control Deck" and buying it all separate.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Wouldn't matter. Bundles save you money no longer. Now all they do is include all the items for the exact same total cost as buying them separate. I long for the days when getting a Super Nintendo with two controllers and Super Mario World together was a better value than going with the bare bones "Control Deck" and buying it all separate.

First party games get bundled in all the time for free to help drive console sales. It's a great way for a company like Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo to keep up a price point by offering buyers $60 of extra perceived value without costing the company more than a couple of bucks for the box art and the disc/cartridge. If Switch sales start to slow I think you'd see Nintendo bundle BOTW, Arms, Mario Kart 8, or Splatoon 2 with their systems to keep them at $300 while driving sales way back up.

 

[gorcorps]

First party games get bundled in all the time for free to help drive console sales. It's a great way for a company like Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo to keep up a price point by offering buyers $60 of extra perceived value without costing the company more than a couple of bucks for the box art and the disc/cartridge. If Switch sales start to slow I think you'd see Nintendo bundle BOTW, Arms, Mario Kart 8, or Splatoon 2 with their systems to keep them at $300 while driving sales way back up.

After a couple years maybe, but remember... this is the FIRST holiday season for the Switch. Do you really think they'll have to bundle anything on a new console, during its first holiday season, when stock has already been so hard to find? I could see a mario kart bundle next year, but not this year.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

After a couple years maybe, but remember... this is the FIRST holiday season for the Switch. Do you really think they'll have to bundle anything on a new console, during its first holiday season, when stock has already been so hard to find? I could see a mario kart bundle next year, but not this year.

No, I don't think so. But I was hoping so. I was hoping the stories about them being in stores now might indicate Nintendo overestimating the demand and overproducing for the rest of the year. Then we could see a bundle.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Well, they are on track to easily sell 11 million units this year, and can possibly hit 16-17million depending on the holiday sales, possibly even surpassing the 18million number that the WiiU sold total...

 

[JujuFish]

After a couple years maybe, but remember... this is the FIRST holiday season for the Switch. Do you really think they'll have to bundle anything on a new console, during its first holiday season, when stock has already been so hard to find? I could see a mario kart bundle next year, but not this year.

I can see stores doing their own bundles for Black Friday.

 

[purbeast0]

I believe Mario is going to sell very well and sell a lot of systems. It's finally a true successor to Mario 64.

 

[Ichinisan]

My local Target has a lot of them right now.

 

[XavierMace]

Walmart, Gamestop, and Best Buy all had them in stock out here in AZ.

 

[KentState]

I have been replaying Zelda and wow does the Switch version play so much better. I borderline hated the game on the Wii U at launch with all the slowdown but haven't really seen that issue once. I know the game has been patched but it feels completely new.