Walmart cancelling Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door pre-orders (UPDATE: Luigi's Mansion 2 HD as well)

If you pre-ordered a physical copy of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door from Walmart, you might want to take a minute and check on that pre-order, as it might be cancelled.

Walmart is sending emails to customers telling them that their pre-order for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has been cancelled. Walmart is offering those impacted $25 off their next purchase through Walmart, so at least there’s a little something to ease the pain customers will no doubt feel.

In their email to customers, Walmart specifically says that “Nintendo will only be offering this item in stores.” We’re not exactly sure what that means or if it applies to more than just Walmart, but it’s a strange situation nonetheless. This dovetails with the recent news that Amazon was also cancelling Switch game pre-orders, and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was a victim in that wave of cancellations as well.

We’ve reached out to Nintendo for comment on this matter and the post will be updated if/when we receive a statement.

UPDATE 2: The exact same situation is happening again, but this time with Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD. Walmart is offering a discount code that takes $25 off your next purchase over $45 as an apology.