The Walmart Zelda-edition Switch 2 saga has taken another turn. After reportedly cancelling pre-orders a day before launch because it had “oversold” the consoles, the retailer is now said to be sending affected customers $519 gift cards — roughly the cost of the hardware they didn't get.

Some customers also claim the story doesn't end with the gift card: they say they've been able to reorder the system, suggesting Walmart has found at least some replacement stock after the initial overselling mess. For buyers burned by the eleventh-hour cancellation, a gift card plus a successful reorder would amount to a remarkable consolation prize.

As with the original cancellations, the details are coming from customer reports rather than an official Walmart statement, so the scope of the compensation isn't clear. But the pattern fits a retailer trying to clean up a high-profile stumble on one of the year's most in-demand products. Nintendo hardware launches have a long history of retail chaos — this one, at least, appears to be ending with customers made whole or better.