Nintendo Switch 2 Screen Punctures Ruin Launch Day for Fans Due to Store Receipts Stapled Into Console's Box

Nintendo Switch 2 owners are opening consoles with punctured screens owed to store receipts being stapled into the beforehand of the console's box.

Photos from a drawstring of Switch 2 customers amusement however staples tin easy penetrate done the console's packaging, which consists of a bladed cardboard container and a flimsy integrative envelope containing the main Switch 2 unit.

"GameStop stapled the receipt for maine and my friends' Switch 2s to the box. FML," wrote 1 instrumentality past nighttime aft getting location from excitedly picking up their console astatine a midnight store opening. "Genuinely insane present I'm gonna person to hold 3 months for the restock."

Many images showing the occupation see receipts from the aforesaid Staten Island subdivision of GameStop, which appears to person stapled receipts to overmuch of their midnight motorboat Switch 2 stock. A video of the midnight motorboat posted by 1 attendee shows a agelong enactment of customers waiting astatine this peculiar GameStop subdivision — galore of whom present look to person been impacted successful the aforesaid way.

"Midnight merchandise went atrocious for me," different affected customer, whose console surface has besides been punctured by staples, wrote connected reddit. "It's seeming similar everyone determination had the aforesaid happening done to their boxes arsenic well. Over 100 radical were determination tonight."

"Hello! My Switch 2 has staple holes successful the screen," a 3rd instrumentality with a damaged console wrote connected societal media successful an effort to interaction GameStop and Nintendo. "They stapled the receipt to the container astatine 1756 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY 10303 and it damaged the screen." GameStop and Nintendo are yet to springiness the instrumentality a response.

@gamestop Helo ! My power 2 has staple holes successful the screen. They stapled the receipt to the container astatine 1756 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY 10303 and it damaged the screen. @NintendoAmerica pic.twitter.com/aqxPtRgNEs

"Me and my homie present (we ne'er met before) were unluckily astatine the aforesaid GameStop and this happened to maine and different buddy!" yet different instrumentality wrote connected reddit. "Think the full pre-order batch is wholly f***ed."

IGN has contacted GameStop and Nintendo for comment, and asked if proposal tin beryllium passed connected to retailers informing them of the imaginable contented erstwhile handling Switch 2 stock.

While GameStop has been criticised by those affected, fans person besides expressed astonishment that Nintendo itself had not done much to support the cardinal portion of Switch 2 — the main unit, including its surface — wrong the console's packaging.

"I'm not gonna hatred connected the employees excessively hard, but it seems similar it was packaged without thought," 1 instrumentality with a damaged Switch 2 wrote. "Why person the surface facing up with hardly immoderate protection. I mean they are inactive idiots for stapling it."

The Switch 2 is packaged with its main portion astatine the beforehand of the console's cardboard box, and its surface facing outwards. (From unwrapping my ain Switch 2 console this morning, I tin corroborate determination is amazingly small to support the surface from damage.)

"I knew this would happen," different instrumentality wrote connected societal media. "It was a weird determination by Nintendo to person the surface beryllium face-side-up astatine the precise apical of the container with lone the bladed cardboard to support it. You're going to perceive astir a fewer damaged screens successful the coming days. They are astatine hazard conscionable being stacked successful shipping."

IGN has contacted galore of the fans present near with a Switch 2 that has been damaged, done nary responsibility of their own, connected the time of the console's launch. One GameStop lawsuit told america they would beryllium backmost astatine the store erstwhile it opened aboriginal contiguous to instrumentality the console. It seems apt they won't beryllium alone.

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