Seriously /v/, how the fuck do you get a Switch at standard market

call around try to find one in store
there's bundles online too, though you're not just buying the switch with it. i got mine for 400 with arms and a memory card

go to a small town

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I know its crazy, but you have to go OUTSIDE and TALK to people.

>>383053686
I have been out for two days going to every store that could sell consoles and have found nothing but people saying "out of stock".

>>383053069
http://www.istocknow.com/live/#device.0=switch&nostock=on&brands=7%2C18%2C3%2C27%2C24%2C26%2C20%2C22%2C11%2C23%2C2%2C16&stores=retail&lowzoom=0&position=37.661913730236%2C%20-92.02563329302598&zoom=4

>>383053979
Then when you click those you get out of stock often. I suspect many simple don,t update regularly enough.

>>383053069
Local listings, people are selling them off daily after finishing Zelda.

I preordered mine day one.

>>383054247
care to provide some ? Yet to see one that wasn't hilariously overpriced

USE

FUCKING

AMAZON

YOU

NIGNOG

>>383054423
Every amazon store I have checked is out of stock or overpriced.

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>>383054423
Yeah, Amazon's got great prices.

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>>383054334
My entire area has them for minimal markup, typically no more than $10-$15. This one has zero markup.

Everyday I see endless listings of these things.

>>383053887
Did you ask them when they restock? I got one since they told me the exact day.

Go to ebay and get lucky.

Got mine with Breath of the Wild, the guide which I don't give a damn about, and another $20 game which I'll probably never play, for $350, which is still under MSRP, not even considering sales tax, for the system and Zelda, which is all I actually cared about.

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>Live in Canada
>Switch releases, lineups around the block, sold out everywhere
>Close to an EB games while I'm out and about
>pop in and ask if they have any switches
>Employee finds one behind some boxes in the backroom
>It's a red and blue one
This was the day after launch.

>>383054892
Fuck scalpers

Jesus

>>383054173
I got a 5 minute update at a gamestop, called them and went down to pick one up.

It seems to work.

>>383055320
Its not even marked up.
Console is $400 + $53 tax + environmental disposal fee.

But yeah, most scalpers can't sell them, so a lot of them relist with lower prices to make a $20 or so cut.

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Bought one on opening weekend

>>383053069
I did it like three weeks after it launched. Nigga, its not hard, just set up an amazon alert.

>>383055601
Anyone who buys a console at launch is retarded.

>>383053069
Why would you want one though?

I literally just pass one in Toys R Us, Target, and Walmart nearly every day I am in one of them.

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>Managed to get a preorder for Switch before launch
>Fell for the Nintendo meme yet again
>Played Zelda for a week and it was overrated as fuck
>Switchc has been collecting dust except for the 2 days or so I played Mario Kart cause I felt like I need fucking anything to hold off the buyers remorse

>>383055762
I have zero problems with it and other people are now complaining about not gettting one, I think I'm doing just fine

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>>383055915
I'm happy with mine

>>383055762
Seems to be paying of pretty well.
I've enjoyed it since launch, but I also have more than one gaming console,

>>383055248
>>383055752
I'm actually regretting not getting it earlier.

>>383055820
Splatoon splatfest is around the corner and I have no Switch to play it.

The walmart down the street has a bunch of them.

I work at a target. We get a shipment of around 5 every week and a half or so. You can check the website to see if we got them in stock that night or not. If you want one, you have to be there right at opening because literally every time we get some in, the same group of resellers come in as soon as the store opens and buys them all up to sell on ebay.

>>383056642
That's honestly the main reason I got a switch on launch, since the testfire was in March. Most of my friends have a switch, but a few want one now that there's some games for it.

>>383053069

>go to best buy
>ask employees what days the shipments arrive
>go to store at open on those days
>repeat until they get a switch in their shipment
>???
>profit

>>383056826
But if you know it's them buying the same thing, can you not forbid them from buying for real customers?

Someone should make a custom firmware to use the Switch for mining. Switches could pay for themselves if current trends continue.

>>383053069
>check store online
>they have hundreds in stock
so hard

>>383057146
>Check their actual sites
>out of stock

wew lad

Literally
Z E R O
E
R
O
In my entire city.

>>383057035
As long as they have the money, we can't really refuse the sell. They aren't technically breaking any rules, just being scumbags. The guys at electronics like to annoy them by trying to sell them cell plans every time they come in though.

>>383057146
>check store online
>they have hundreds in stock
Post link.

There's one in my city, but it's at MSRP and it's fairly easy to get one $20 or even $30 below MSRP if you wait a week or so for an online store shipment. I could also go to a larger city and easily pick up a few more at MSRP. Eastern Europe.

>>383053069
my local best buy had some in store about a week ago

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>>383057227
woah

>>383057426
www.google.ca

>>383057532
woah what planet is that?

>>383057538

>shit is not fucking stocked anywhere at all
>meanwhile if you go into any store on earth you could buy a ps4
>"WHY ISN'T SWITCH SELLING.... NINTENYEAROLDS WILL NEVER RECOVER OWNED...."

>>383057532
and a good allahu ackbar to you too, sven

Sadly i don't read cuck

>>383057538
The Wii U never ended up in a bargain bin, though. Has any Nintendo console since the Virtual Boy?

>>383057672
It's Finnish

>>383053069
look around. The walmarts in my city are empty but I found a bunch in a more ghetto wal mart in the next city

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>>383053069
Best Buy around me's got a surplus at market price, but I ain't buying one til Fire Emblem Warriors comes out, so I might as well wait for Black Friday. Fuck Breath of the Normie.

>>383056013
Seems like you would've been better served buying a NeoGeo pocket.

>>383057916
Piss off Sex Genie, your thread is gone BTW :^)

>>383058045
How do you figure

>>383057916
Actually, first four are perfectly valid arguments - look at sales numbers for Pokemon on the 3DS vs. literally any other game, look at the Christmas shopping crazes, and look at the air shipping in March or Nintendo actually declaring that the shortages are not artificial fairly recently. However, "Nintendo Switch" is the best name Nintendo had in years.

>>383057916

>proving my point

Just like clockwork :)

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>Check every local store that could possibly have a Switch
>Nothing
>Until a glimmer of hope, Target has exactly ONE (1) Switch
>They won't hold it
>Roll around at the speed of sound all the way there
>It's gone

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>>383057773
>can't tell swedish from finnish

>>383057916
>t. SEETHING

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Use fucking Amazon, just check in frequently. Pic related, I purchased today and the same seller had Switches for $290. This was literally just like 3 hours ago, OP.

I got my Switch the same way like 3 weeks ago.

>>383058232

They lied to you, anon. It was never there.

>>383057754
>shit is not fucking stocked anywhere at all
>>383057532
>I-I-IT DOESNT COUNT
>I-I DONT UNDERSTAND REE

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>>383057952

>Breath of the Normie
>Fire Emblem Warriors

Thats fucking rich.

>>383057773
You're doing a great job fitting in sweetheart.

>>383058247

Mongol is undistinguishable from cuck for the untrained white man eye, Sorry, Subotai

>>383057538
>>383057916
>>383058324
>VGChartz
>Wojacks
wew lad
Console warring is fucking pathetic desu

>>383058374

>image of 3rd-world country's store in a place where literally nobody can afford it
>haw haw this will prove that the switch is easy to get a hold of and that people just don't want it!

>>383056013
Is there any way to make the home menu show games in more than one row, or is that a different screen?

>>383058541
pretty sure that's a different screen.

>>383057538
where can you still buy new wii u's?

>>383058316
Hope you actually get it.

Get an Amazon Prime free trial and wait for there big sale next week.

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>>383058678
Yes I bet you are pissed your thread is gone

How's BOTW BTW Sex Genie?

>>383057786
Gamecube sorta? They were $100 by the end of 2003, but it was an official price drop.

>>383058723
Thanks Anon, I hope so too. It's been hours and my order isn't cancelled yet. Really cool bargain if he honors his obvious mess up.

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>>383058678
Nah, you're a fucking faggot :)
Console warring is fucking gay lmao

>>383058485
>american education

>>383059051

If it's not America, it's 3rd world. Sorry anon.

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>>383059065
How's that "I don't emulate Nintendo trash" mindset treating you?

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>>383053069
You can do better, OP. Just pirate it.

>>383053069
go to a store and buy one. not that hard

>>383059065
>60 million consoles sold
>No game on the PS4 has sold more than 16 million
kek

>>383053686
haha epic post /b/ro

>>383058324
>PS2: 155 million
>PS3: 84 million
>PS4: 60 million

Look, mom, I can do this as well!

Do keep in mind that a lot of the handheld Nintendo owners will hop on to the Switch (but not all, unless a $200-tier model appears), and for handhelds, Nintendo numbers look more interesting:

>GB/GBC: 118 million (GameBoy is at least 64 million of this)
>GBA: 81.5 million
>DS: 103 million
>DSi: 41 million
>3DS: 66 million

I think the Switch can easily get to 20 million. Possibly up to 40 million, but I wouldn't expect much more.

>>383059389
Mainline Pokemon on Switch will sell gangbusters regardless, especially if there's a bundle.

>>383059461

>came bundled with vast majority of consoles sold

Go to any store that sells used games and they'll have a shitload of copies of Uncharted 4 because nobody fucking wants it.

>>383059461
>Sonybabies clinging desperately to their cinematic experiences
lmbo

>>383059604
It's very unlikely the PS4 will surpass the PS2. Too much competition from PCs for that to happen. It might surpass the PS3, though, but by a slim margin.

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>>383059207
Oh look no response. Pussy must have fled after getting caught red handed by falseflagging too hard

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will be my first console since ps3

literally on bought it for breath of the wild

>>383059596
Yes. For the last twenty years, Pokemon games have managed to consistently pull in at least 6 million games (including "sequels" and "third editions"; not counting those, at least 12 million) since the very beginning in 1996.

>>383059751
Yea pretty hard to surpass the ps2 sales at this day and age.

Not that anyone should even care about sales unless they've invested money in certain companies

>>383060050
I-It gives bragging rights, though! T-that's how I feel more confident in my purchase!

>>383053887
>call a store
>ask if they have any instock
>none instock? when do they expect to get a new shipment?
>repeat until someone gives you a day
>be there when the store opens

>>383055490
The console is supposed to sell for $300

>>383059879
>Request Cancellation

it's not too late

>>383059596
Nintendo hates to bundle Pokemon games. At best they'll do a limited edition console with a pre-installed Virtual Console Red and Blue.

>>383060094
My choice of console sold more than yours!

Just wait for the super switch pro/hd/advance

You guys think they're going to release a better hardware iteration of the Switch akin to the PS4 pro and XboneX?

>>383060515

Nintendo only really does this with handhelds, so I kind of doubt it.

>>383060515
I don't think so. Most likely just a new designed model one at some point

Now I'm not a shill, but wouldn't you agree that, based off of strong sales data and critical buzz, the PS4 is unquestionably the way to go?

It already has PSN, the world's LARGEST online console community, I mean, if your friends are already on it, why aren't you?

Honestly I think I'm gonna pick up a Pro for myself today, (and, let's be honest, it's not like you're going to find a better console on shelves).

>>383060515
It will be either
A. Bigger
B. Better battery
C. More powerful
D. 4k

>>383060638
anon...

>>383060638
Switch is a handheld, dumbass

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>>383060638
Let me tell you a secret. Switch is a handheld console first and furthermost in Japan.

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>>383060789
>4meme

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>>383060756
>Sony ponies are practically indistinguishable from Toddposting now

>>383060756
>$60/year

>>383060789
Why bigger?

>>383060638
They did it with consoles too for a while. One could argue the Wii, internally, is a GameCube Pro with motion controllers. The Wii U was a GameCube Pro X with a tablet controller.

>>383061065
Did it with the 3ds and 2ds

>>383061024
what are you, unironically poor?

>>383061294
And DSi, but the normal units are fairly small there - and, on the Switch, an XL version would also require XL Joy-Cons.

>>383060962
?

>>383061294
The Switch is already XL-sized. Why make it even bigger?

>>383061437
Do you honestly think anybody is honestly going to release a gaming tablet with 4k?

>>383061392
So unironically poor I'm considering buying the console which costs more in a store and lacks a cheap used games market instead, go on.

>>383060756
online on consoles is shit. especially when nowadays you'd have to pay monthly free for everything.

just name a few games that are somehow worth of paying extra.

get one from germany, i here they aren't selling well there

>>383061459
>>383061430
Because they can? Selling new accessories.

Ive bought 7 and resold 6 so far. Picked one up today threw it on ebay. Easy at least $100 everytime

Its really not that hard to buy one online. Ive gotten 3 from amazon, 2 from walmart, 1 from best buy and 1 from gamestop all for msrp

>>383061647
I don't think there's enough of a market for a larger version of the 6.2" tablet that the Switch is, as opposed to an XL version of a 3-4"-screen console.

>>383061530
Yes? You don't?

>>383053069
Why doesn't Nintendo do something to stop scalpers

>>383061738
Probably go up to 10

>>383061742
Just get a Surface Book

>>383061697
If you knew anything about reselling you'd know that selling a $300 console for $400 isn't a net gain of $100. It's $20 if you're lucky.

>>383061843

Not their problem.

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>>383061112
You could at least try to argue the top loader NES, new-style SNES, and Wii Mini.
Those took years to come out with the Wii Mini at the shortest interval taking just over 6 years.

>>383061958
wow how do those housewives make a living off that???

>>383061998
That's fucking stupid.

>>383061917
Ok

>>383061958
If you knew anything about selling, youd know that it cost $330 for the switch and ive been reselling it for $470+ each time. Having a seller rating helps a ton on amazon and ebay. I also get those sweet rewards points that get me credit on my bill.

The market is going to crash soon tho.

>>383062096
I don't think mere stylistic redesigns count. I mean, the PS2 Slim, the PS3 Slim and Super-Slim, the Xbox One S, the PSone, the PS4 Slim. Many, many consoles get these.

>>383061392
People who are wealthy are wealthy because they know how to properly manage their money - not because they blow it on useless crap. It's the principle of it.

>>383060262
he's canadian

>>383062193
>reselling it for $470+ each time
Prove it.

>>383062223
lol it's called being house poor look it up lol

>>383062223
Trump says hi, so do faggots on instagram

the switch is literally just handheld neo geo emulator with mario kart and zelda on the side
i like it

>>383060756
Okay unironically PC is objectively better than consoles unless you care about exclusives enough to spend $400 on an inferior product

>>383062147
No one makes a living off of scalping, it's supplemental income at best.

>>383062201
By that argument, the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X are also stylistic as they can only play the games the original models do anyway.

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How many you want OP?

>>383061998
It is their problem. People hoarding consoles means less people buying games. But there's not much they can do about it besides increasing production enough that there's no motive to buy from scalpers. It's up to retailers who they sell to and how many they let them buy.

>>383053069
Best Buy. We get them in just about every other week.

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>>383053069
Go outside.

>>383055248

This didn't happen, a retail employee wouldn't even go look.

Fucking liar, go die and take your worthless fucking parents with you

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>>383063010
>$399.96

I was working retail at the time of release. I was first one in the store, first one to get a Switch. And at 10% off MSRP, at that. Sucks to be you guys that can't find one.

>>383056013
good taste, nigga.

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>>383063010

>$399.96

>>383062830
Only over 100+ left. Damn I need to get one while I still can

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>>383056013

I'm having fun too anon

>>383062532

>spending 800$ to play minecraft

You can play it on the switch, though.

July 21, when Splatoon 2 comes out, go looking for one early. You'll most likely find one because they hoard stock for big releases.

>>383063010
>IMG_20170618_204635.jpg

yawn

https://boards.fireden.net/v/search/filename/%20IMG_20170618_204635.jpg/

>>383053887
>call store
>hey any switches in stock?
>no, sorry
>do you know when you'll be getting more?
>yeah we get shipments on tuesdays, try then
>ok
tuesday comes
>call store early in the morning
>hey any switches in stock?
>yeah we just got a shipment in
>cool can you put one aside? I'll be in shortly
>sure no problem
>thanks

>>383063336
minecraft is better with mods

>>383063330
How is Shephy and Spelunker?

>>383062830
perkele vittu

>>383063424
does the fact that he's posted it before make it any less of a photograph

>>383063330
wait, how do you have US and JP software on the same account?

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>>383063330
NONE OF THAT EXIST STSOP IT!

>>383063779
switch isn't regionlocked, and you can change your store's region by just putting in a fake address.
protip: oregon doesn't have sales tax on digital goods

>>383063723
in this case yeah?

>>383063779

The switch is a fucking importers dream, I download from both regions and it puts them all in the same place, no account changing required

Don't even need to change accounts, ever, when you choose the eshop it just asks which account you want to access the shop with.

Dream come true

>>383063926
>>383064197
how does it handle your wallet?
like can you use an eshop balance you already have on the japanese shop?

>>383056013
Shock Troopers 1 is better than 2. Just a heads up.

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>>383063010
A

>>383064589
Separate balance between regions provided you're using different accounts for each region.
If you want to use the same account, it won't let you switch to the other region if you have anything left in your balance.

>>383064871
Yeah I don't know why I bought that one...

>>383064589
Don't know, I don't fill up the wallet, I just add enough to cover whatever I'm buying. Definitely recommend to switch your region to a state where you don't pay sales tax though.

>>383064948
FUCKING

>>383065329
>switch your region to a state where you don't pay sales tax though.
Yeah I figured that out for the Wii U

>>383065009
That kinda sucks
I got 20% off nintendo gift cards which is the only reason I decided to buy some games digitally
There's really nothing I want off the Japanese eshop right now but I guess I'd have to make another account as long as I still have a balance on my normal account

>>383053069
Here in the Midwest it's easy as fuck. Just call the store of your choosing like every other day and eventually they'll have one. Just got mine yesterday after deciding I was getting one last week.

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>>383056013
LOOK AT THESE GAMES LMAO!

>>383067429
Where in the midwest, cause I've had fuck all luck in finding one

>>383068016
>most are indie trash and remarks or re-releases
And I am sitting here and still play fnv and bf4

>>383063539
>implying that Switches get restocked more than once a month

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>Have no intrest in a switch
>see them at every walmart
>Want a switch
>Sold out everywhere

Bestbuy in Canada has a prerecorded message when you call saying they can not tell you if they have stock or when they will be getting stock and to check online.

FUCK.

>>383069401
My example was literally the conversation I had with a clerk at EB Games that lead to me buying my switch. They restock them weekly. Granted, he told me they only got 2-3 systems and they weren't sure what colors they were getting when they got them, but they still got them every week.

https://www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding=UTF8&node=13270229011

Good news if you're an amazon prime member and live near an Amazon Books store.

>>383055490
>environmental disposal fee

Of all the Jew shit I've seen, that's among the jewiest

>>383056013
How did you get the menu to look like that?

Did the PS4 have shortages like this four months after launch?

>>383072629
You need to have like 10+ games and then go all the way to the right for an All Software option.

>>383069401
Actually, most stores seem to be getting small shipments pretty regularly. It's just that if you only go to the store once a week or less and whenever in the day rather than at opening, you'll never see them.

>>383072912
It had shortages although perhaps not as strongly as this.The first two months for it were November and December in NA and EU though.

>>383069416
That's general Best Buy policy, to never confirm exact stock over the phone and make you go to the store and check. It doesn't really work for vidya, but for lots of their other products, it's makes sense on their end. After all, if you're already in the store, there's a good chance you'll just buy another TV or laptop or whatever if the one you want is out of stock.

Order on Amazon. I ordered mine on the 1st and I got a "out of stock" notice. They let me place the order anyway and told me I'd get it when new ones arrived. Which was a couple of days ago. I will probably get it Monday or Tuesday.

>>383073553
How do you order from Amazon itself? I can't find that option, just lots of 3rd party sellers with inflated prices.

>>383073735
Don't know. I just used Amazon.uk, but I live elsewhere in Europe. Every store here had it sold out.