Nintendo appears to have achieved the impossible and created enough supply to meet the incredible Switch 2 demand. However, there will be a lot of Nintendo fans in Texas this week who will have to go without after a delivery truck carrying almost 3,000 Switch 2 consoles was raided and all of the stock inside was stolen.
A delivery truck was on its way from Nintendo of America in Washington to Texas with 2,810 Switch 2 consoles that were meant to finish their journey in various GameStop stores, but they never made it. According to the driver, the consoles only made it as far as Colorado, reports CBS News, as several pallets of Switch 2 consoles were stolen.
$99.99 is an absolute bargain.
At $500 per Switch 2, more than $1.4 million worth of Nintendo stock has been hijacked and is now unaccounted for. How exactly this happened without anyone noticing remains unclear. The driver claims they didn't know just how precious the cargo in the back of their truck was and only knew that they were transporting toys and games across the US. Clearly, someone knew just how valuable the stock in the back of that truck was and...