{"id":117649,"date":"2020-09-04T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/369562"},"modified":"2020-09-04T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:37:00","slug":"nintendo-eshop-policy-change-gives-shoppers-more-time-to-cancel-pre-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/04\/nintendo-eshop-policy-change-gives-shoppers-more-time-to-cancel-pre-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo eShop policy change gives shoppers more time to cancel pre-orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has altered its cancellation policy to let consumers opt-out of digital pre-orders up to one week before launch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo would previously charge shoppers as soon as they&#8217;d placed a pre-order on the Nintendo&nbsp;eShop, irrespective of when their chosen game was launching.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/you_can_now_cancel_switch_eshop_pre-orders_up_to_one_week_before_release\">As highlighted by NintendoLife,<\/a> however, the company has now <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.nintendo.com\/US\/en\/support\/pre_order\">quietly tweaked that policy<\/a> to ensure eShop customers won&#8217;t be charged any sooner than seven days before launch, and will also let them &#8220;cancel pre-orders up until time of payment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The expected payment date [for pre-orders] is no sooner than seven days before the product is released,&#8221; reads the amended policy. &#8220;You may cancel your pre&#8217;orders up until time of payment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can cancel pre-orders by selecting Shop Menu in your Nintendo Account settings then selecting Your Pre-orders, or by selecting Your Pre-orders in Account Information on Nintendo eShop on your device.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a small but notable change that gives consumers more freedom when shopping digitally, and one that&#8217;s timely as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/362508\/Sales_up_at_Nintendo_due_to_significant_growth_across_the_entire_Switch_family.php\">digital sales at Nintendo continue to rise<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has altered its cancellation policy to let consumers opt-out of digital pre-orders up to one week before launch.&nbsp; Nintendo would previously charge shoppers as soon as they&#8217;d placed a pre-order on the Nintendo&nbsp;eShop, irrespective of when their chosen game was launching.&nbsp; As highlighted by NintendoLife, however, the company has now quietly tweaked that policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}