We’re loving the Nintendo Switch, with a very well designed console that does its own thing and the simply sublime Breath of the Wild, but what we don’t love is retailers not managing to fulfil orders in time and deliver consoles and games on day one. We’re not terribly big fans of the pre-order culture in the games industry right now, but if people do pre-order, you expect things to be delivered.
Game have often been considered something of a go-to company for hardware purchases, but conflicting reports suggest that they’re struggling to get all the Switch pre-orders to customers on launch day. As you can see, there’s a fair few disgruntled people on the now traditional platform for venting rage: Twitter.
However, Eurogamer have also reported of someone who got in touch with Game’s customer support team and was assured that, while their order was not able to be tracked, it was merely down to the packages not having been scanned. In their case, the order should still arrive today.
Elsewhere, Amazon have also added to day one delivery dismay, doom and disappointment. Eurogamer have people reporting that their copies of Zelda will only be arriving on Monday, and our own Dave is also having his console and game arrive separately, though his game is set to arrive tomorrow instead of after the weekend. Having had our review console without any games for nearly a whole week, I can definitely sympathise.
How about you? If you’ve ordered a Switch, is everything turning up on time, or are you stuck without some or all of what you’ve bought?
via Eurogamer
Mick939
Yeah ive found after about 7 games last year not arriving for release that i wouldnt shop with them again, back to shopping with shopto or amazon for online. I did do my trading there but since they stopped matching cex trade (and cex having brand new new releases for launch day) i cant see myself ever needing to go in game again. Even if amazon prime now didnt exist for same day purchase, sainsburys is around the corner from game and always cheaper…