But of trivia. Switch 2 sells for $690 USD on eBay
https://www.ebay.com/itm/277159382587?_skw=Nintendo+Switch+2&itmmeta=01JX19NYNT3S05MAKQ4ZD5R2A3&hash=item4087fc8e3b:g:YTIAAOSwkbVoN6pr&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1c%2BqbxQnNqtk5r7CY0sDIchlV%2Bak35iwAWsUZfYsiM8t4ZUZZR8gNogMiVfxHQl0RVSgYRKkJZlUuh54ZCWSLGkhWtuGNpxCLu2GXSLJWHFKNULVUNBpHUAWt9hxcWW3iK5Hu1twQg1929FBY9hh0LoteDG3klVtxBRgBJRQUlTc%2BozKCtC50kWqi2p76BWk%2BlE1yXywORhfQytV8dNu1gWkHVcssp4LqQERkPRiniGz7DwqU%2FdeBoML458RS0IlhDEVgcJkQzhF1O1XpXdIiOztYpgxm3EDPm%2Fv%2FLvh4yHBw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4rr16noZQ

I wonder how many they ruined. 🤣 Poor bastards all hype to be done out of it by two tiny holes. 

I just wanted to remark briefly on my buying experience today. After hearing endlessly about how there was going to be a massive shortage, I fully expected to fail in my attempt to get a Switch 2 today since I hadn't pre-ordered, so I opted not to stress myself about it. I took the day off and went to a 7 AM store opening at about 7:05, picked up a Switch 2, and drove home. It was the simplest, smoothest, easiest launch day experience I've had in decades. No mandatory pre-ordering, no getting in line at 8 PM the previous evening or anything like that. All console launches should be like my experience today was. I just wanted to shout out the good people at Nintendo for ensuring the delivery of an adequate volume of systems this time around, at least in my area. Thank you for making it easy for me!

That is false. I am not ignoring or misunderstanding your points, I am literally outright rejecting them, THAT is the part you are struggling to understand here.

The WiiU tablet had Gyro/Motion controls, the WiiU either integrated or supported everything about the Wii.
Many WiiU games supporting the Wii motes, Mario Kart 8 and Smash being prime examples.

Uh-oh, flop confirmed if you got yours that easily.

Oh my lord.. That is nasty.

I loved the look of the wii u and bought one close to release. However it was the performance that was disappointing with often games being much inferior to the versions on PS3 and Xbox 360. There was a wii u game that used to really annoy me, it took ages to load levels and you could hear the optical drive being used constantly in that time where as the PS3 and 360 loaded those sections quickly thanks to their hard drives and caching. Sonic Transformed was 640p and looked a bit blurry on my projector compared to 360 and PS3 etc. I loved it for its Nintendo games but it was a bit garbage for multi-platform games. In the end with the wii u being such a huge failure I would often buy the wii u versions as they were practically giving them away at one point. I think most of my wii u games were bought sub 10 pounds many at less than 5 pounds. It was a bit like the Dreamcast at the end where games were discounted to unbelievably low levels. So it was a failed console  without long term support but made much more bearable by the ridiculously cheap games. I did pay pretty much full price for Zelda BOTW though but did see it after I bought it perhaps 3 months later for a fraction of the price but not as cheap as the others. I think it was about 15 pounds.

Something feels off, things are very quiet, I'm going out of my way to find peoples hype and there is little hype in the air for me to suck on. I'll be passing through town today, I gotta check stock and ask about sales. Looks to be 469 across Ireland, only a few places online are telling me it's not stocked like currys or to turn away from the payment section. Not sure wtf the scalpers at cause they are selling the thing 40 euro over MSRP with just a handful stretching out to 599 and above.

Nintendo want this stock constrained, they want it to be hard to get so if it's stocked under those conditions hmm
I don't even know what that means, I never considered that it would be in stock at launch. Maybe others considered it and thought there was no point fighting for it.

Also, the way it's boxed screams they wanted the controversy of those staple guns or something similar, it's a thin piece of cardboard, nothing more. 

It's not boxed worse than most expensive smartphones and iPads.

Their displays are also directly behind the cardbox, so that you see the display first after opening the box.

Stapling into these boxes is just stupid.

I've never seen a smartphone boxes cardboard you could bend, I have kept all my smartphone boxes since the S2, while there is one brown box where they were going eco friendly that's a bit off they are strong as hell and same for Apples packaging at least up to the IPhone 14. The Switch 2 has a very thin cardboard over the top top with the screen exposed, not even padding or a thin foam. It is packaged so, so much worse and it was inviting the stapler incident, not gamestops fault and completely on Nintendo, I find is suspect and the fact that they could simply flip it over screams planned, controlled controversy that costs them nothing.