{"id":434,"date":"2025-04-08T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:56:15","slug":"uk-switch-2-fans-dont-bother-going-to-game-stores-for-your-pre-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/uk-switch-2-fans-dont-bother-going-to-game-stores-for-your-pre-order\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Switch 2 Fans, Don&#039;t Bother Going To GAME Stores For Your Pre-Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You won&#8217;t get one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/game-wont-have-in-store-switch-2-pre-orders\">Eurogamer<\/a> indicates that Switch 2 pre-orders at GAME retail stores in the UK simply won&#8217;t be a thing, with the firm instead possessing a &#8220;small allocation&#8221; of consoles available via its official website.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s yet another indication of how GAME is downsizing its operations after numerous controversial decisions over the last year or two. Most GAME stores have now been moved to concession locations within Sports Direct, another brand firmly in the grip of the wider Frasers Group retail conglomerate.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/uk-switch-2-fans-dont-bother-going-to-game-stores-for-your-pre-order\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You won&#8217;t get one. A new report from Eurogamer indicates that Switch 2 pre-orders at GAME retail stores in the UK simply won&#8217;t be a thing, with the firm instead possessing a &#8220;small allocation&#8221; of consoles available via its official website. It&#8217;s yet another indication of how GAME is downsizing its operations after numerous controversial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}