Nintendo Switch 2 Consoles Worth $1.4 million Stolen in Brazen GameStop Truck Heist

Nearly 3,000 Switch 2 consoles person been reported stolen from a motortruck transporting banal betwixt Nintendo of America's office and a Texas GameStop store.

Police investigating the Nintendo Switch 2 theft, discovered portion the operator was mid-route successful Colorado, said the worth of the mislaid consoles amounts to $1.4 million, per section ABC News affiliate Denver 7.

Tracking down the culprit, oregon culprits, whitethorn not beryllium easy, nevertheless — arsenic investigators accidental they are presently unsure precisely wherever the theft took spot on the driver's 1,332-mile journey.

Was this a planned operation, with the motortruck tracked from Nintendo's office successful Redmond, Washington and targeted specifically? Or was this a random theft? Police accidental aggregate pallets of Switch 2 banal were shifted from the truck's trailer — suggesting astatine slightest immoderate level of organisation.

If caught, constabulary accidental those liable could look aggregate felony charges for theft. The driver, meanwhile, has said helium wasn't alert helium was transporting banal of Nintendo's caller console.

The extracurricular of the motortruck containing Switch 2 consoles. Image credit: Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office.

The wrong of the motortruck containing unfastened pallets of Switch 2 consoles. Image credit: Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office.

Local constabulary person asked for immoderate accusation astir the crime, with a extremity enactment disposable connected 720-874-8477.

Nintendo Switch 2 yet launched worldwide earlier this month, and went connected to merchantability 3.5 cardinal consoles implicit its archetypal fewer days connected sale. Despite aboriginal fears implicit banal shortages, Nintendo has managed to support its caller console comparatively disposable — though incidents specified arsenic this won't help.

Still, thieves person been targeting costly video crippled banal for years. Back successful 2020, astir the motorboat of PlayStation 5, Sony's in-demand caller console was being stolen from moving vehicles successful the UK via a method known arsenic the 'rollover'. The Times reported that British gangs had utilized the method dozens of times to swipe PS5 consoles from trucks portion connected the road, with different vehicles utilized to container successful the motortruck portion a thief attached to a enactment climbed aboard astatine speeds up to 50mph, and utilized cutting tools to get inside.

Nintendo banal has antecedently been targeted, too, specified arsenic successful a 2015 incidental wherever an full motortruck carrying banal of Switch crippled Splatoon, arsenic good arsenic assorted uncommon amiibo figurines, was stolen.

Finally, of course, this isn't the archetypal Switch 2 incidental to deed headlines for retail elephantine GameStop, which infamously ruined the midnight motorboat of Nintendo's caller console by stapling receipts into the Switch 2's screen.

Image credit: Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office.

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