A number of would-be customers across the pond in the United States have experienced unexpected Switch 2 cancellations.
Posts on the likes of reddit and social media platform X show several patrons have had their Switch 2 orders cancelled from retailers such as Walmart and Target.
“Just checked because I [saw] a post on X from Wario64 and it was about [making] sure payment is and all is good to go for when they are ready to ship.. I [checked] and my order got cancelled two days ago,” reads one reddit post titled Target cancelled my order. According to replies, the original poster is not the only one this has happened to.
Another post – Did anyone else’s Switch 2 preorder get cancelled out of nowhere? – shared on the Walmart subreddit said the same thing. “I just got an email saying it was canceled due to a payment error even though it was the same card I preordered it with,” it reads.
Even more examples of these Switch 2 cancellations can be found on X. “Walmart you have failed me for cancelling my switch 2 preorder when my payment method is valid and has funds available, give it back,” one poster wrote over the weekend.
While Walmart and Target seem to be the main retailers in the US to have cancelled Switch 2 orders, GameStop has also been namechecked online, although the problem doesn’t appear to be as widespread.
These reports follow last week’s news here in the UK, which saw retailer GAME admit it had cancelled a number of Switch 2 online pre-orders, with just days to go before the highly anticipated console’s release. At this time, GAME said it was aiming to “reinstate as many affected pre-orders as possible”.
The Switch 2 is set to release later this week, on 5th of June. Eurogamer’s former EIC Tom Phillips has already been hands-on with Nintendo’s upcoming console. You can read his Switch 2 impressions here.