{"id":1687,"date":"2025-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2025-04-28T03:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T03:22:05","slug":"the-secret-to-how-i-pre-ordered-a-nintendo-switch-2-bundle-readers-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/the-secret-to-how-i-pre-ordered-a-nintendo-switch-2-bundle-readers-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret to how I pre-ordered a Nintendo Switch 2 bundle \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A reader explains the unlikely method he used to pre-order a Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> Mario Kart bundle and why it\u2019s the only real option at the moment.<\/p>\n

I have pre-ordered a Nintendo Switch 2<\/a>, but it was not an easy thing to do. Although a big Nintendo fan I didn\u2019t meet the criteria for a pre-order invite, because I don\u2019t use Nintendo Switch Online much and that has pretty much sealed my doom as far as Nintendo is concerned.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really blame them. I approve of them trying to get the consoles into the hands of fans first and foremost, not scalpers<\/a>, but I was hoping that they would switch over to allowing ordinary people to pre-order after a while. Maybe they will but they haven\u2019t yet, although I guess we are a month away at the moment.<\/p>\n

The problem is I wanted the Mario Kart bundle<\/a>, because no matter what everyone says about the general price of the games the bundle means you get Mario Kart World for half price and that\u2019s got to be a bargain in anyone\u2019s book. The thing is the bundle only last till the \u2018autumn\u2019 and there\u2019s no clue as to when exactly it\u2019ll stop being sold.<\/p>\n

Hearing that the Switch 2 is breaking pre-order records in Japan is great in theory, because I want Nintendo to do well, but if they don\u2019t even have enough stock for their home territory what hope do we have here? Especially as they\u2019re probably trying to dump as much stock in the US as possible at the moment, before something even worse happens with tariffs.<\/p>\n

That means the UK and Europe is going to be way down the list of priorities, as usual, and I\u2019m actually kind of surprised they didn\u2019t announce a delay for the release date here. Although I guess that wouldn\u2019t have been very good optics, seeing as none of this is our fault.<\/p>\n

These sort of situations aren\u2019t unusual with a game launch but the weird thing is that it\u2019s always the game companies that get blamed, as if they wanted to lose sales by not having enough consoles to go around. It was like that with the PlayStation 5 and I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll be the same with the Switch 2.<\/p>\n

The scalpers are always the same too and I can\u2019t lie, but I did look on eBay to see if there was one I could use. But I don\u2019t trust any of them. There\u2019s no guarantee they\u2019re going to get a Switch 2 when they come out and then even if I got my money back I\u2019d be even further behind the curve in actually getting a console.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really hard to say what will happen after June too, because consoles don\u2019t usually launch at that time. Normally you\u2019d expect a ton of stock just in time for Christmas and then quite a wait until more comes in and things get to any kind of normality.<\/p>\n

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