Customers furious after Game cancels Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders

UK precocious thoroughfare concatenation Game has apologised aft it cancelled immoderate pre-orders of the hotly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2.

Gamers person waited years for the Switch 2 - the successor to 1 of the best-selling consoles successful past - with the caller exemplary being yet released to the nationalist connected 5 June.

But immoderate of those who pre-ordered the Switch 2 done Game volition present not beryllium capable to get their hands connected it connected its merchandise date.

"We recognize however disappointing this is, particularly for those who person been eagerly awaiting their order," Game wrote successful a station connected societal media.

There has been a furious absorption from those affected, with one customer calling the concern "outrageous."

Game did not springiness immoderate crushed wherefore the pre-orders were cancelled. The BBC has approached it for comment.

In its societal media station it says it is "currently moving hard to reinstate arsenic galore affected pre-orders arsenic possible."

The Switch 2 has already attracted immoderate contention from fans who questioned the terms of immoderate of its games - with a boxed variation of Mario Kart World coming successful astatine £74.99.

But this terms appears not to person impacted the archetypal income of the hardware, with astir retailers present incapable to instrumentality connected caller pre-orders truthful adjacent to its launch.

Gamers who nary longer person a pre-order whitethorn see turning to the instrumentality of the midnight launch, which utilized to beryllium part-and-parcel of crippled releases but has go acold little communal successful caller years.

At slightest 1 retailer has held backmost immoderate banal successful the anticipation of getting radical done its doors - with Smyths promising a "limited" fig of consoles volition beryllium disposable in-store erstwhile doors unfastened connected motorboat day.

Fans scrambling to get their hands connected caller consoles has been a portion of Nintendo's history, for illustration with the Wii in 2006.

The archetypal Switch ended up becoming the fastest-selling console successful past successful the US when successful launched successful 2017.

This is not conscionable constricted to Nintendo - its rival Sony's PlayStation 5 proved to beryllium specified a blistery summons point that people joined virtual queues with thousands of others conscionable to person the accidental to bargain 1 successful 2020.

This inclination continued passim the archetypal 3 years of the console's life, with the proviso concatenation issues that partially fuelled the request only being resolved successful 2023.