GameStop Bungles Nintendo Switch 2 First Day Preorders

Well, that could have gone better. After a night (probably a nightmare for many) of trying to acquire a Nintendo Switch 2 from retailers like Walmart, Best Buy, and Target, GameStop was the last hope for many prospective customers to snag one for launch day. Preorders were supposed to go live at 11 a.m. ET on April 24, however the retailer’s site and app shit the bed almost immediately when the time came. Almost immdiately after preorders opened up to customers, the GameStop site was inundated with a massive number of requests. Users, including several of our Gizmodo staff, received a Cloudflare error 502 for bad gateway. Currently, if the GameStop listing for Switch 2 loads at all, it shows a grayed-out box listing the handheld as “Not Available.” However, I can personally attest that at one point I reloaded GameStop’s page and saw a red box with a “Not Available” sticker. Clicking on it, I was taken to a page where I could buy the console. I received an order number, but I still h ... Read full article.