Nearly 3,000 Nintendo Switch 2 consoles stolen from semi-truck

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BENNETT, Colo. — A high-dollar heist was discovered earlier this month involving the theft of thousands of Nintendo Switch 2 gaming consoles worth about $500 each.

The theft was reported around 8 a.m. June 8 at the Love's Truck Stop at 1191 S. 1st St. in Bennett, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office.

A semi-truck driver reported that during a pre-trip inspection, he discovered that his trailer had been broken into and several pallets of newly released Nintendo Switch 2 consoles were missing.

In all, 2,810 consoles were stolen. Each one is worth $499, bringing the total loss of the stolen goods to more than $1.4 million.
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ReBurn said:
And all have unique serial numbers and will probably be bricked when unsuspecting buyers purchase them from whoever the thieves sell them to
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No idea if the ERP tracks for to that level for which ever company owned them. They already landed so its out of Nintendo's hands.

Edit: Oh Gamestop, lol. Also why would one store receive thousands of switches, did they mean distribution center?
 
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i want to say it is quite ridiculous, but i once heard there is one case here in my region, there were robbers stealing a truck filled with food seasonings in appx. about one decade ago. well not too ridiculous, but still...
 
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Need to treat these things like digital code cards. Have to activate them at the register.
All consoles shipped bricked until beeped at the register.
 
Guardian Monkey said:
No idea if the ERP tracks for to that level for which ever company owned them. They already landed so its out of Nintendo's hands.

Edit: Oh Gamestop, lol
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The retailer, even Gamestop, would know the serial numbers and could report them back to Nintendo. Not sure Nintendo would take any action as they'll most likely end up in unsuspecting hands, but information from GameStop/Nintendo could help with any police investigation.
 
IAmRei said:
i want to say it is quite ridiculous, but i once heard there is one case here in my region, there were robbers stealing a truck filled with food seasonings in appx. about one decade ago. well not too ridiculous, but still...
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Food seasonings, hmmm, that doesn't sound like a bad haul, but you still gotta take that chit across 2nd ave.
 
How do you even sell these without it looking sus?
IAmRei said:
i want to say it is quite ridiculous, but i once heard there is one case here in my region, there were robbers stealing a truck filled with food seasonings in appx. about one decade ago. well not too ridiculous, but still...
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Yeah..."food seasonings"...

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bender said:
The retailer, even Gamestop, would know the serial numbers and could report them back to Nintendo. Not sure Nintendo would take any action as they'll most likely end up in unsuspecting hands, but information from GameStop/Nintendo could help with any police investigation.
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I assumed this was done at the store or distribution center level not necessarily at port.
 
Guardian Monkey said:
I assumed this was done at the store or distribution center level not necessarily at port.
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They'd still have a manifest of serial numbers from Nintendo. Stores check those in when inventory arrives and when they are sold so even if their logistics are completely fubar, they'd still be able to determine the stolen units through process of elimination.
 
Guarantee that the truck driver was in on it. How tf do you just not notice that all that inventory was stolen until probably hrs later while driving down the road. What a clown and he should be investigated.
 
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bender said:
The retailer, even Gamestop, would know the serial numbers and could report them back to Nintendo. Not sure Nintendo would take any action as they'll most likely end up in unsuspecting hands, but information from GameStop/Nintendo could help with any police investigation.
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Nintendo doesn't seem like a company who is going to have much empathy towards the unexpected buyers of these switches. I could be wrong, but I would put money on these serials being blacklisted
 
Guardian Monkey said:
No idea if the ERP tracks for to that level for which ever company owned them. They already landed so its out of Nintendo's hands.

Edit: Oh Gamestop, lol. Also why would one store receive thousands of switches, did they mean distribution center?
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He could have been doing LTL drops at multiple stores instead of taking them all to one store.
 
StreetsofBeige said:
Do game companies do that? They track consoles shipped on pallets noting serial codes to each skid?
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I don't know how strict their controls are in the supply chain. If they were carrying full pallets that hadn't been previously broken down or restacked they should know the lot and serial number for each console on the truck. When I worked in third party logistics back in the 90's and early 2000's we were tracking individual serial numbers for high value goods from receipt to delivery, but that was for scheduled narcotics and regulated cancer medication, not electronics.

I don't know if GameStop scans the individual serial numbers into inventory when they receive them, but they certainly would scan them at point of sale. It wouldn't be difficult to identify the consoles that never passed through a GameStop POS system if all of them were destined for GameStop.
 
Apple knew exactly which iPhones were in that Apple Store that got looted in DTLA and disabled them all remotely

No reason to assume Nintendo can't do the same the moment those stolen Switch 2's try to connect to the Internet
 
Switch 2 may be like SNES in many ways but its missing the wisdom of Hiroshi Yamauchi.

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During the launch of the Super Famicom in Japan on November 21, 1990, Nintendo faced concerns about potential theft of hardware and software, particularly from the Yakuza crime syndicate. This led them to ship the consoles in secret to avoid attracting attention and potential robbery.
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