BREAKING NEWS! GAME's supply of Splatoon stolen in lorry heist!

[Gemini-Phoenix]

I agree. A lot of sites are already citing the Splatoon + Inkling Squid Amiibo figure as "rare" before it's even released, so I can definitely see a resale market there for the Amiibo by itself.



I think it was part of a larger shipment of Nintendo games destined for GAME's distribution centre warehouse from Nintendo, or which this game made up the bulk of the delivery due to being a new release this week. The truck most likely contained other more high value goods like 3DS's or Wii-U consoles, plus cases of other 3D and Wii-U games or Amiibo figures which are more in demand.

There's also no telling where this truck was stolen. I assume that Nintendo's HQ is in Germany, and that it was on-route from a factory in Germany to GAME's distribution centre here in the UK. Even if the Splatoon + Amiibo CE's were ditched, the thieves could still have themselves a nice haul of untraceable games and possibly consoles to sell on eBay, or unseal and trade in at shops for other items such as Xbox or PlayStation consoles, which in turn can be sold on. Somewhere down the line these stolen Nintendo games will be laundered