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Switch owners are reportedly opening games to find a googly eye staring back at them rather than a cartridge


Imagine the scene, you've just got your hands on that physical Switch game you've been waiting for, but you are instead met with a googly eye.

Watch on YouTube The reports of this eye-sore phenomenon made the rounds with more vigour over the festive period, but it has seemingly been happening for a little while now. "This is what I found when I opened my brand new sealed copy of Echoes of Wisdom from Walmart," reads one reddit post from several months ago, with a picture of the offending eye. Manage cookie settings IGN recently reached out to a number of those who claimed they had received googly eyes instead of their expected games, however no one contacted was able to shed much more light on the situation.

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