If you’re so worried about the that you’re hovering your mouse over the buy button months before its official announcement, you can relax a bit. Nintendo is promising that they’ll beat the scalpers simply by making enough Switch 2s to go around. The legacy Japanese game maker told investors their main strategy for ensuring customers don’t turn toward scalpers is flooding retailers with enough consoles at launch.
During an held late last month, as transcribed using Google Translate, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said the company would produce “sufficient numbers” of the sequel Switch. As first reported by , Furukawa further mentioned there may be extra efforts to combat the scalpers in different regions. The biggest boon for scalpers around the time the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X first hit store shelves was the semiconductor shortage during the height of the COVID pandemic.
It took Sony until 2023 to declare with the PS5’s supply chain. Though Nintendo’s popular portable console also felt the sting of manufacturing cutbacks, the company’s president stated that shouldn’t be an issue. He said, “There were times when we were unable to produce hardware.
.. at this point, we do not believe that the shortage of parts will have a major impact on production.
” While you can’t scalp concert tickets without drawing the ire of the IRS, console scalping is legal, at least in the U.S. Scalpers often use bots to drain retailers of their online stock befor.
