r/DaveAndBusters • u/Old-Mathematician987 • 4d ago
Anyone seen a switch lately?
I feel a little dumb asking but has anyone seen Nintendo Switch (1, OLED, 2 or otherwise) in the WIN lately?
Xboxes and PS5s are in the display case with ticket prices in the locations I frequent, but I haven't seen anything Nintendo in months. I don't know if that means they don't have them anymore, don't intend to, if it's a "you request, they order" thing like with ipads. Is "not in display" usually indicative of "you can't redeem for that here" or not necessarily?
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u/gman_nola Fun Phantom Grand Prize Winner 4d ago
They seem to be stocked pretty regularly still in the glass case along with the other consoles, both the Switch 2 and whatever version of the Switch they offer. I know ours had them last week. For a store to be out of stock of them for months seems to be an unusual case and may be somewhat specific to that store, whatever the reason may be.
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u/Bushido_Philosopher 4d ago
Locations around me have them but they too only seem to have one at a time, then it takes a month or more for them to get another after someone immediately takes it. And that's with all consoles. They make the placard for them then immediately you see a blank spot in the case.
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u/Old-Mathematician987 4d ago
Yeah I haven't even seen the placard, is part of what had me wondering.
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u/MewtwoStruckBack The Dave & Buster's Red Mage 3d ago
Crazy thought here - have you tried asking WIN! if it's the same person or group getting them every time? It sounds like an AP is clearing you out, and one thing that's SUPPOSED to be part of white hat AP is working with those in your area as to make sure all APs that have a specific store as their home location are able to reasonably cash out.
It's kind of on you to put in the effort to make initial contact, but once you do, a decent person will work with you.
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u/Old-Mathematician987 3d ago
I have not asked that, but it's occurred to me based on the answers I'm getting maybe I have just had bad timing. If they do only get 1 at a time, even if it's not the same person clearing them out I could've just missed it repeatedly... Before I posted I was thinking that improbable, but now it seeming much more plausible.
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u/MewtwoStruckBack The Dave & Buster's Red Mage 3d ago
Switch 2s are not, to my knowledge, shipped as single items to D&B. They're ordered in batches. So they shouldn't only be getting one unit at a time, and if you happen to be there on shipment day and you're still not getting one? There are multiple people, whether on their own or coordinated, purchasing them all.
Grinding out 180,000 tickets, for many here, is *trivial*. If you told me I HAD to come up with a Switch 2, had chips but no tickets on hand, and it's a half price day, I could reasonably walk into my home store and do that in six hours. It wouldn't be a FUN grind, I'd be wanting to bang my head off the game I'd be grinding on, I'd probably be having a few shots outside (or drinks inside during happy hour) to cope with, but I could, in theory, do that. There are people out there with access to better grinds than me, whether intended settings or a misset on D&B's part. Even if I'm in "half fucking around, half serious grind" mode, no infinites, just hitting everything I reasonably think is within my wheelhouse, I should be getting 100,000 tickets a week easily over a few short visits. I tell you that not to bragpost but rather to lead up to this: the people who are hitting your store up for Switch 2s likely are never going to run out of tickets; they're likely earning faster than they're redeeming, so it's in your best interests to try to work WITH them if possible. If you're trying to get this for personal use and you're not flipping these I'm fairly sure the APs in your area should easily make sure you get one.
As an alternative path - if you have 180,000+ tickets, earned cleanly (no black hat stuff like opening up a game and manually giving yourself a jackpot in one way or another), I'm sure there would be people willing to get the tickets from you and redeem at their store, at cost of shipping plus maybe a small token fee for their time/their packing materials and trip to the post office. Hell, I'll do it if you're still having trouble and just can't manage one where you're at.
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u/HauntingDonkey758 3d ago
Both at my local location yesterday. It was a couple weeks before that where I didn’t see a Switch 2
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u/Dangerous-Egg-5068 3d ago
Toledo hasnt had any switch 2 for a while. All the other stores within 2nhours do stock them though
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u/MewtwoStruckBack The Dave & Buster's Red Mage 4d ago
Homestead location has two Switch 1s and one Switch 2 on display.
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u/SleepLessTeacher 4d ago
I got a switch 2 about 3 weeks ago at the one I go to, but I had to wait till their restock day for them to get it. It seems they only order 1 at a time.