Over 5000 People Lined Up To Win A Chance Of Buying A Switch In Japan | NintendoSoup

It seems the crazy demand for Nintendo Switch hasn’t lowered at all in Japan. Despite the huge amount of replenishments flooding Japanese retailers in the past two weeks, the record for the longest line to purchase a Switch has been broken. Read more

[Erik7357]

Good luck there guys I think ima wait a year before I try

[indysurfn]

Good hope you have a easier time by then.

[Gazondaily]

Crazy!

[XiNatsuDragnel]

#SwitchforGen9winner

[Fist4achin]

And the first guy in line bought all 10 and turned around to sell them for 3 times the price...

[GameBoyColor]

hard to do that when this is one per customer and in lottery form where line placement doesnt even matter lol

[Fist4achin]

I know. Im just bothered at Nintendo for dropping the ball on the switch. The demand is there and i still cant understand why Nintendo hasnt figured out a solution to keep up with the demand, especially with Nintendos deep pockets.

[indysurfn]

It's Japan not America.

[_LarZen_]

That's insane! :D It's strange that the demand is so high and the availability of the Switch is so low in some countries. Here in Norway most physical stores have it. And online stores have loads ready to be shipped.

[OffRoadKing]

Its not strange at all, its called artificial scarcity.

[pootymcpoockle]

It's well documented that it's due to a parts shortage.

Give up.

[OffRoadKing]

@ PeteyMcPickle

Yeah I've heard all the damage control and apologist stories already. Give up.

[kevnb]

this is the same country where you probably cant even give away an xbox one, so its not that strange.

[indysurfn]

Maybe the people in Japan should take the shipping hit and buy the ones up in Norway. I shop outside the USA all the time. Some times shipping cost is not bad at all.

[Gemmol]

No Sony guys in here ???

[indysurfn]

I'm a Sony Guy....But it is PS4 and SWITCH for me. THen xbox one, then PS3 then PC/tablet/phone

[Gemmol]

you a cool guy, most of the issues come from Sony only fans

im a SwitchPS4 team too, never had xbox one, but had a ps3...... multiconsole fans better, more honest, and less bias, I support you bro

[indysurfn]

Thanks Gemmol, I support you too bro.

[rainslacker]

Huh? Lots of Sony guys are into Nintendo consoles. They share a lot of common types of genres which are attractive to both fan bases.

I've had PS and Nintendo consoles since PS became available.

I have criticisms of how Nintendo handles some things sometimes, but that's not because I'm a Sony guy, it's because Nintendo does questionable things sometimes. It's not the Sony fans that made Nintendo do questionable things sometimes.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

That the minority on N4G

[kevnb]

looks like its going to have a good amount of Japanese support, just like the 3ds.

[indysurfn]

Which means I will get my feel of JRPG's

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

It's actually getting more than the as far as the first year. After 2018 and beyond depends on the amount of exclusive. Atlus released more games on 3DS than all other system combined in the last 5 years If we can see similar output from both Atlus and Level-5 it would be better than the 3DS