Nintendo Switch customers are reporting that some not too long ago bought Switch video games have arrived with the sport cartridge lacking from contained in the field. Even odder, the cartridges seem to have been swapped out for… googly eyes.
Over the vacations, posts in regards to the weird phenomenon started popping up on social media. A number of gamers have shared photographs of freshly unwrapped Switch sport circumstances holding a lone googly eye within the spot the place the sport itself ought to be.
“The Grinch obtained us this 12 months,” reads one Reddit put up that includes a photograph of a Tremendous Mario Celebration Jamboree case with a lone googly eye within the house meant for the sport cartridge.
It is not clear how widespread the problem is, neither is it clear who the wrongdoer is. Some players suspect that warehouse workers someplace alongside the availability chain are snatching the cartridges (probably with the intent to resell them) and changing them with a googly eye so the load of the lacking cartridge goes unnoticed, or for the aim of creating positive the field sounds prefer it nonetheless has a sport inside it when shaken.
Although the precise supply of the lacking sport cartridges stays unknown, a number of feedback and posts point out buying a Switch sport from Walmart and discovering nothing however a googly eye inside, suggesting one of many retail large’s warehouses would be the supply of the issue.
One Reddit consumer says they’ve fallen sufferer to the googly eye switcheroo a number of instances.
“Purchased Tears of the Kingdom at a Walmart in Arizona, and this occurred to me,” they wrote. “Walmart refused to refund/exchange, blaming Nintendo. Needed to twist their arms a bit, however Nintendo ultimately gave me a digital copy of the sport. Just lately, I went to Walmart to purchase Pokémon Violet. I requested if the clerk would watch me open it as a result of I informed them about what occurred with TotK. Bro was beside himself once I cracked it open to disclose one more googly eye. They swapped out the sport for an additional (which we additionally checked).”
Neither Walmart nor Nintendo have commented on the problem. For now, a problem at Walmart warehouses or distribution facilities appears to be the likeliest wrongdoer. However it’s additionally potential that Santa merely ran out of coal this 12 months.