Nintendo president confirms 2.2 million pre-orders in Japan alone, far more than the number of Switch 2 consoles available at launch.
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Consumers in Japan prefer the cheaper Japanese language-only Nintendo Switch 2, resulting in a higher lottery success for the global model.
But of course, it's around 30% cheaper when compared to the global model. That kind of price difference really makes it hard to ignore. Even I would be interested in getting one, and I barely speak Japanese.
For some, Target's website crashed from heavy traffic, while others had better luck with Best Buy and Walmart's virtual queues.
At one point I had 5 tabs on my browser with different stores. I was in a line queues in all of them and still came up short. I'm shocked at Best Buy the most. I had luck with them mutiple times in the past. Not this time. They were the worst offender. I'll get the system eventually but I ain't going through that again anytime soon. 😆
I got on the waiting line on Walmart and it took an hour of trying and finally lucked out and got one.
@Jin_Sakai People needed to stay in line on Walmart. After an house I got one. Hopefully they don’t cancel.
I tried to buy straight from Nintendo. I signed up for the prebuy.
I got an email yesterday saying I could buy it after launch. After they talked all that shit about avoiding scalpers.
@_SteakDeck_
“People needed to stay in line on Walmart. After an house I got one. Hopefully they don’t cancel.“
Yea the waiting screen was dumb it showed no indication you’re in line so most people give up. I waited an hour and finally got in and was able to purchase one. I had to click the pre order button 100 times before it went thru though. Lol
I actually secured 3 pre-orders of the MK World bundle... No, I'm not scalping them. Just had to grab one for my Cousin and possibly my best friend as well if he wants it. Since their jobs would assuredly get in the way of them even attempting a pre-order.
Easiest by far was just going to Gamestop in person when they opened up today. Got there like 5 minutes before they opened and they still had a few left after I left. Got the other two at midnight from Target's app and Walmart queue. I also wanted insurance that one of my online orders wouldn't get cancelled or something.
Actually the situation in Japan is VERY unique and different to America.
Every single retailer is doing lotteries....meaning you apply to get one and if you are lucky you get an invite. Usually it takes about a week or so to find out.
Also Japan has 2 models. The Japanese only model for ¥50,000 and the "international" model for ¥70,000. The expensive model is only available directly from Nintendo.
Luckily I won the lottery for the international model. Since you are only allowed to apply for one, most Japanese gamers are applying for the cheaper model making it much easier to buy the expensive one.
Every. Single. Time. Nintendo can't meet demand, things always end up "exceeding their expectations." You'd think they would have learned their lesson by now. But of course not. 🙄
Great to see the cave in to $80/$90 games. s/
I just want to buy it at launch, and put it away until it’s hacked.
Somehow, I'm not surprised, I would have been surprised if they had enough to meet demand from the get-go. I remember when they released the New Switch version, even then, I struggled to get one (it took me a month or two before I finally got it, unfortunately not in the colour I wanted though). I didn't even jump on it right away either.