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This happened to me in 2017 in Mario Odyssey purchased from Walmart, just a single piece of plastic inside of a properly shrink-wrapped case. The return counter said he had seen it many times before already. How has Nintendo not cracked down on their manufacturers allowing this for almost 8 years?
Edit: It would take nothing more than a window in the front case paper to show the game chip inside, not exactly rocket surgery.
It's not necessairly manufacturers, you can shrinkwrap shit really easily. Lots of scammers do it, so they don't get checked when returning.
Exactly, it's not on Nintendo to fix, this could be happening anywhere in the chain.
Could be within the stores or their suppliers, or it could be returns from end-customers.
My personal bet would be scammers buying games with cash, taking the games and then shrink-wrapping the box before returning them for a cash refund. And then they flip the cartridges on eBay or whatever.
Another good reason to buy the games w/ the case. I do it so it's easy to give to a friend/coworker, but I keep the cases in a storage box and use a cartridge case.