Absent only makes the heart richer. If the idiom is correct, it means bad news for Americans looking to get Switch 2. Nintendo fans in the U.S. and Canada will be the last chance in the world to book a Nintendo Switch 2 on Thursday, April 24 at 12:00 a.m. ET. Even booking through my Nintendo store’s anti-lower “priority” console lottery may not guarantee your first crack on the new handheld board released on June 5, Nintendo itself said.
While some complain about the Switch 2's $450 price online, Nintendo has apologized to people in Japan who may not switch on the release date. Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said in a post on X (read via machine translation) that Japan alone received “a large number of applications” because its lottery sold the Switch 2. About 2.2 million people in the country have registered “far more than the number I can deliver from My Nintendo On My Nintendo On on Nittendo [release day] June 5. ”
Furukawa said:
Just Japan My Nintendo Store Receives 2.2 Million Lottery Sales Applications
Those who are not selected will automatically make the next lottery sale.
Even if the second lottery is sold, they can't accommodate every app!
This is hype! pic.twitter.com/smukmpbbid– Switch 2 Stock (fan account) (@switch2stock) April 23, 2025
The country will have a second drawing for booking a Switch 2 ticket, but Furukawa also wrote: “We are unable to fulfill all the applications we received.” The company is crashing into production for Japan. “We plan to continue to produce and ship a large number of Nintendo Switch 2 units in the future,” said the Nintendo president. The priority for Nintendo Switch 2 buyers will be sent on May 8 and after.
At least Nintendo holds a limited relationship on the stock plan, although this may not help people overseas. In other countries that have made 2 reservations, the demand for new handheld computers is “completely crazy”. The quote was provided by Charlotte Massicault, the head of game at French retailer FNAC. Massicault told Frandroid (read through machine translation) that the first weekend of booking reached a “historical level.” The retailer claims it opened its pre-orders on April 2, the same day Nintendo fully announced the Switch 2.
French retailers seem relatively confident that Nintendo will avoid shortages in the country. Any product release as big as Switch 2 will have different requirements. In countries like the UK (Switch 2 pre-orders) that went live on April 7, the stocks were completely sold out on Amazon (no US page for Switch 2) and retailers like Eeasere and Argos. This does not mean that the United States will encounter the same fate, although it is a factor in whether Nintendo has enough vision to guess the demand for different regions.
Back in the period of its initial Switch launch, Nintendo sold about 360,000 units in Japan in the first month of its release. Today’s data suggests that older game console manufacturers are demanding much more than the first handheld computer, but that’s not the Apple that Apple compares. Nintendo lists America as its largest sales area, and the United States is eager to snap up the share of any customer provided by Mario Maker. According to Nintendo's latest sales data, the original conversion sales in the Americas were 54.5 million original conversion sales, while the sales in Japan were 34 million. The company does not provide country decomposition data, although the entire European region accounts for 36 million units of sales throughout the life of the conversion.
Industry analysts almost disparately claim that the Switch 2 will be a big launch. Analysts who spoke with Gizmodo have previously said Nintendo worked harder than most companies to produce enough console units for launch. Other industry insiders claim that Nintendo may have shipped about 137,000 units to the U.S. earlier this year, ahead of reservations for Trump with Global Supply Chain and Global Supply Chain and Shunted the Switch the Switch the Sweets 2 Prederder 2 Prederder 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Prederfer 2 Preder. Still, it's just a few numbers compared to the number of handheld handhelds that Nintendo can only sell in June.
In Nintendo's last financial earnings report, Furukawa said his company learned its error from the original Switch's launch stock loss. He further claimed that Nintendo is working to meet “as many needs” of the Switch 2. He also hedged, saying: “We believe it is not easy to increase production capacity quickly, so based on our previous experience, we are preparing to be able to respond as quickly as possible.”
Ticket bookings are made at 12 a.m. ET, midnight at Walmart, Best Buy and Target, and 12 a.m. ET. GameStop will start selling Nintendo's handheld at 11 a.m. ET with its overly good trading policy. If your heart will get a console on the release date, you may need to stay up late to secure your position. Or, better yet, avoid hubbub and buy one when you come back, although it may take some time.
