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Walmart Joins Amazon And Has Started Canceling Thousand-Year Door Pre-Orders

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Josh Coulson

Published May 17, 2024

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Walmart has been emailing customers with Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door pre-orders to let them know their orders have been canceled.
The decision appears to be a Nintendo edict with Walmart telling customers the game will still be available in-store on release day.
This comes a month after various Switch pre-orders, including ones for Thousand-Year Door, were canceled without explanation on Amazon.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Amazon started canceling pre-orders for upcoming 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch games last month without explanation. Those games have remained unavailable on Amazon ever since, and now Walmart has followed suit. Online pre-orders for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door at the big box store have been canceled, just like they were on Amazon a month ago. Walmart has been emailing apologies to those affected to let them know the game will be available in store when it's released on May 23.

being sent to customers whose Thousand-Year Door pre-orders have been axed. While there's no firm explanation as to why this is happening, the email implies that this is a Nintendo decision, stating that Nintendo will only be selling the ga﷽me in stores. Wal😼mart is also offering $25 each to all customers affected which can be used to get money off their next order.

Amazon canceled pre-orders for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Endless Ocean: Luminous, which has since been released, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Luigi's Mansion 2 HD. The remastered Luigi's Mansion game is , but if you have pre-ordered the game through the site, you might want to keep a close eye on your inbox in the coming days and weeks. If you planned on pre-ordering Luigi's Mansion 2 HD but you haven't yet, maybe do so through Walmart since if it gets canceled, you could get a $25 discount on your next order for your troubles.

Best Buy And GameStop's Paper Mario Pre-Orders Are Safe, For Now

If you're now looking for somewhere else to pre-order a physical copy of The Thousand-Year Door with only a week to go until release day, despite Nintendo's want to not sell pre-orders through Walmart and Amazon, they are still available from Best Buy and GameStop through the links above. Hopefully with so little time until the game launches, Nintendo won't cancel pre-orders anywhere else. You'd have to think sales of the game will be affected by Nintendo doing this without explanation so close to release day.

There are a couple of theories as to why Nintendo is doing this. One is that Nintendo is fed up with scalpers buying up stock of games and this is how it plans to counter it. While that will certainly work, if it is the case, a little planning and communication would be nice. Another theory is Nintendo has underestimated how many people want these games and it doesn't have enough stock of Thousand-Year Door and Luigi's Mansion 2 to fill pre-order demand.