1) It can be a scam

2) It may just be some cheap knockoff (description may give it off)

3) May be a person paying to have the switch preorder without having to shell out so much money. for example, you pay me $10 and i'll get you a switch preorder for regular price

4) they're secretly santa claus 

No I quite thoroughly enjoyed Wii U. I enjoyed it so much I bought 2.

No joke though if I do get a switch I'm super gluing it to the dock.

lol Fair enough.

Aah, that makes sense.  Guess it always pays to read the fine print.  Seems kind of messy, though.

I don't know about moving the Switch but it's definitely going to move... something.

I'm in the same boat (been playing their consoles since the mid 80's) but feel the complete opposite way about the Switch. It's the closest we've gotten to a core console since the Gamecube imo. Just because it's also portable (if you want it to be) doesn't really change that for me. I view it as something of an added feature. No one is making anyone remove it from the dock. You can buy the pro controller and play just about every game with it. Everything about this console feels like a return to form imo. 

Good news for me, I preordered three, looks like I'll have a free switch + plenty of spare cash when I flip the other two.

Desperate Nintendo fans pockets get awfully deep, awfully fast.

Some stores here in Down Under are closing pre orders and the next shipment being on April. Nintendo made a right move to make it quite expensive for them hardcore players.

I'm glad you feel this way. But to me it feels like they gave up and took a blatant grab at the casual crowd while continuing to ignore the user base that have supported them for decades. Ever since the Wii they have been looking for the next gimmick that will put them over the top instead of making a wide variety of quality games and experiences. And the peripherals. Always with the peripherals. Even back in the day. Lets say I wanna play FF: Crystal Chronicles on GCN with my friends. I need 4 GBAs, 4 GCN to GBA adapters. Or to get the most out of many different games I needed something else entirely. I bought Xenoblade Chronicles, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of a new world, and Skyward Sword. All 3 needed different things. I wanted to play Tales with a GCN controller like I did with the original. Instead I needed Wiimote and Nunchuck. Then for Xenoblade Chronicles, I needed the Classic Controller, and for Skyward Sword, the Wiimote and Nunchuck I bought at launch was worthless since I needed the Wiimote Plus add on or a entirely new controller.

Now its Joycons with Joycon grips, and joycon chargers and pro controllers all at outrageous prices. And watch. 3 years from now we'll have a 'New' Nintendo Switch with Joycon Plus controllers that have HD Rumble Plus which renders all the launch peripherals obsolete. Its tough to have to buy all this crap just to play Nintendo games. GCN was probably the last console they made where you didn't need a ton of crap to play most of their games.

Meanwhile they ignore the things that made PlayStation a success which was consistency and having more than one purpose. And they continue to do this with Switch. Nintendo thinks of 50 different peripherals to sell but won't put Netfflix on a tablet that every other tablet in the world has. Stuff like that is disappointing. I won't be surprised in the least if a week after launch, there is a massive selloff of Switch machines when they buy Switch, and Zelda and realize that there isn't anything there after they beat Zelda.

Not surprising, hopefully the hype will last throughout 2017!