Walmart reportedly canceled some pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 “The Legend of Zelda” 40th Anniversary Edition and told affected buyers they would get a $519.99 Walmart eGift Card. Some customers also received an Exclusive Reservation that gave them 48 hours to reorder the console.
That is why the Zelda Switch 2 Pro Controller search is spiking now: buyers who thought they had locked in a preorder at $519.99 suddenly found themselves watching for email instead of a shipment notice. The reported eGift Card is said to arrive within 10 business days, making the replacement offer immediate enough to matter but not instant enough to calm everyone down.
The reported remedy matches the console’s listed price, which makes the offer unusual in a simple way: Walmart is not just refunding the canceled order, it is effectively trying to replace the purchase opportunity. Nintendo Life carried the timeline for the eGift Card, while Gaming Route described the offer as a gift card paired with a 48-hour reorder window. Stevivor also framed the cancellations as an error, then noted the reservation and the gift card.
But the fix was not uniform. Not everyone reportedly received both offers, and no outlet established the exact rules for who got the gift card, who got the reservation, and who got both. As of November 3, 2026, Walmart had not published a breakdown explaining the split, leaving customers to infer the pattern from their own emails.
So the immediate news is not just that the orders were canceled. It is that Walmart appears to have created two different remedies for the same problem, and the unanswered question is why some buyers were offered only one while others were given a second chance to buy the console they had already secured.
