Nintendo president reveals genius plan to stop resale of Switch 2
Somehow, Nintendo had never thought of its new strategy that will prevent scalpers from taking advantage of the Switch 2, and it's so simple that you can't help but marvel at the genius.
Nintendo, gaming, and tech at large has a scalping problem that many are finding near impossible to tackle with any success.
Sony's anniversary edition of the recently released PS5 Pro is the latest in a long, long list of gadgets that have fallen prey to the scalping market, and the consumer market is growing tired of the trend.
Nintendo's history with scalping is specifically well documented, with the infamous 2007 Christmas Wii shortage at the forefront, but the company has been accused in the past of limiting stock to create artificial scarcity, which plays into the hands of scalpers.
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It's perhaps never been more apparent than with Super Mario 3D All-Stars, which was released for just five months before being discontinued both physically and digitally.
The tides have shifted perhaps in the world of Nintendo, as they've baked up a new ground-breaking strategy for the Nintendo Switch 2's release that looks to curb any threats of scalping.
As reported by VGC, Nintendo's foolproof plan for avoiding this issue with the Switch 2 is to simply make enough copies in the first place. Don't worry, we also wonder why it's taken them this long to come to that conclusion.
The company's president, Shuntaro Furukawa, argued that they plan for a situation where customers don't have to turn to resellers to get their hands on the console, and instead can simply head directly to retail to pick one up.
He also pointed out that previous semiconductor shortages - which affected production of almost all electronic products - are no longer an issue, and thus production can scale to what they feel is necessary to meet demand.
Now we've just simply got to wait for them to officially announce the console, which at the moment will be no later than the end of the current fiscal year, or March 2025 in simple terms.
Counter to the extremely disappointing sales performance of the Wii U, the Nintendo Switch has proven to be extremely successful for Nintendo.
It currently sits as the third highest-selling console of all time, with 146.04 million units sold at the time of writing.
Whether its successor performs as well is still yet to be seen, but you'd imagine that Nintendo have learnt a lot from the mistakes made with the Wii U, and the Switch 2 hype is immeasurably strong right now.