This was midnight when Fedor Volkov found himself waiting impatiently in the streets of Moscow for his ride to the house. In his arms a contract Switch 2 square It was held at home that the fans of the control unit were waiting for years to get their hands, but they were still officially sold for sale for more than a week. He was very tense and excited to remember to bring something to hide it.
“I forgot the bag, I forgot everything,” he said My city. “It was the night, like 1:00, I was standing with the Switch 2 box, waiting for the taxi to return, to return to the house. I, like, I hope no one …” says his shirt “Welcome to Hell” and a glass vase that appears to be the white cloves on a book shelf behind him.
He and his friends, Vlad Malikin and Artem Collehets, Hosting Podcast is unofficial Russian games. It is a name, “п к ктра,” translates literally into the heels and culture. Her logo It is the reference of goats. They started only two years ago and will strike the hundred episode, they told me, after this year’s Jeff Kelly Festival. How do these men get a key 2 before almost anyone?
The answer is simple and complex, as they explain. Volkov’s vision begins with a friend of the TELEGRAM RAM about the Switch 2 order to secure it that was scheduled to arrive on Monday before the launch of June 5. When Volkov inquired about the details, one of his acquaintances gave him the name of the seller who had a handful of Switch 2 units coming on a plane from Dubai.
“So I wrote to this man,” he said. “We cannot say his name, sorry, and I wrote it like,” O man, I want to ask for one key to myself to make some content, as you know, I have podcasts, Balah, Balah, Balah, and also for me, for myself, to play video games, not selling it, no, just for myself. So tell me, well, good.
Then the man had a Volkov again after 10 minutes. He already had a man who had an additional 2 key on a trip that would arrive in a much closer. Will Volkov be interested? They settled on the price: about 800 dollars. Grant Volkov with his colleagues in podcast before accepting. He said: “I could not believe that I (you) would really get Switch 2 before its launch, first in the world, that we will empty it,” he said. “Until I saw the box, even touched it with my hand, I couldn’t believe it was real.”
Folkov immediately I started making videosAnd that preceded it quickly Nintendo Vandum is hard On social media. The sequence of preparation and its detailed music theme showed, as well as system settings, including only two topics in the list in Launch: Black and White. He also emphasized that the Switch 1 games on the new device can not be played yet. Because one day correction is required, without reaching Mario Cart World Or another Switch 2 test cart
After a wave of bombshell all leaks, he confirmed what Switch 2 would look like before its official statement, Nintendo was trying to maintain the rest of the lock control unit, to the extent that it is said in it Even most media and content will not be able from creators to the device To review it before going out. However, the company has less than influence in Russia, however, it has officially stopped selling products alongside the other large control unit makers yet. 2022 conquest Ukraine. the Mario maker Cut ties With the controversial CEO of Nintendo Russia in 2023, he began at the end of the regional branch after a short period, and after a short period, and Place Eshop in maintenance mode.
The sanctions and provinces have made it more complicated to be a player in Russia, but a black market for unauthorized imports and a set of digital solutions that provide ways for the masses ready to jump across these hoops. New Apple M4 MacBook Pro It also has emerged for sale in Russia anywhere else. Cohosts Malikhin and Kolomiets refers to the use of Indian and Turkish PSN accounts, prepaid cards from abroad, and even bank accounts prepared in neighboring Kazakhstan as ways to overcome various restrictions. HBO Max is not available in Russia, but they fell in Another of us Thanks to VPNS (the first season was great, but the second season had more rise and landing, they say).
Unlike some dropouts, Volkov did not try to hide his identity. In fact, his face is the first thing that appears in the first switching key before version 2 of the group, the YouTube comments that were scattered with the people joking about “Nintendo Ninjas” that are sent to disappear Volkov and the channel. He said: “I thought about it first, like,” stand, what if they were, like, banning my switching account? He is not planning to log in to the control unit with his current account until June 5.
I mentioned the new ruling that allows Nintendo From the brick, the key to anyone 2 if he violates the company’s service conditions. It didn’t seem worried. “I didn’t sign any ndas. I bought this with my money. I bought, and I did not steal it or something like that. Also, Nintendo from Japan, you know, and they no longer have any official stores in Russia anymore. They no longer have a specialty in Russia.”
This is undoubtedly part of the reason for the completion of one purchase for a weak price of stickers from a man on TeleGram instead of a store as he did with the original Switch Nintendo. And the other, of course, was on the Internet influence in the culture of games that give more prizes than most things, although Volkov, Malekin and Colleates claim that the goal was not to hunt anyone. “It is not as if we want to show that,” said Volkov
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