Switch 2 Pre-Orders Expected To Sell Out "Day One" Due To Limited Unit Allocation

Yeah, sounds like it won't be so easy to get up and show up one hour or 30 minutes before the store opens to get that pre order in.

Can't they put a limit on how many units you can pre-order then? To prevent scalpers from taking them all?

@VoidofLight I would probably just try going to the store whenever pre-orders go up and just wait in line.

So Furukawa lied about taking precautions to make sure demand is met this time around?

I hope everyone who wants to play with the Switch 2 will get one.

I hope scalpers doesnt ruin it for others. And even if they do, please dont buy from them.
For me its def a day one.

Haha also, imagine the chaos if Nintendo announced "release date is...... Now at your local game store"

April 9th would be the worst possible day for me. Hopefully it’ll be sooner.

“Will you be attempting to secure a Switch 2 when pre-orders go live?”

Yes.

It's going to be really interesting to see how tariffs affect prices of things like consoles. And how much leverage something like the price of a toy will have in the hearts and minds of certain (super principled!) folks.

There will be shortages after initial stocking, but I’m expecting re-supply to happen pretty regularly so I don’t think it’s time to panic at all

pre-orders selling out on day one? Well.. that's not new.

I trust Nintendo. Since this will be the greatest launch of all time I doubt there will be shortages, especially in Europe. The higher cost will discourage some, plus the ample inventory, plus PS5 and Switch competition. It will break records, but I doubt it will sell out.

You don't need a crystal ball to make these predictions.

@The-Chosen-one

'Haha also, imagine the chaos of Nintendo announced "release date is...... Now at your local game store"'

Sega did exactly that with the US Saturn launch and we all know how that turned out.

May go day one in the UK and pre-order.
Will wait and see the day one release games.

I have no interest in old PS4 games or remasters of Nintendo games.

If a new 3d Mario or DK platformer is day one I’m there.
But it won’t be if the console releases in say June 2025.
The new 3d platform game will be October or November 2025.
It is so easy to read Nintendo with this one.

Wasn't there an article a while back (rumouring) saying Nintendo was prepared for their biggest console launch in history and guaranteed consumers a unit day 1 if they wanted one? I'm so done with rumours at this point, this has been the most frustrating console launch for me and I've been gaming since the NES, I don't know, maybe I'm just getting too old lol

I'm hoping to pre-order day 1 but I want to avoid Amazon given recent problems with new consoles going missing from them.

There are a couple of retailers that take your money on pre-order that i like and so they may be an easier bet, I have also always had a good result with Smyths toys here in the UK.

But if they go live on the second I'm at work so it might all get tricky.

@JS_Comics
I feel the same and I’m getting old.
I was buzzing about Switch 2 day about 2023 and little in 2024 but as time as gone by the launch and console seem way overdue and technology ie PS5 and now Pro has so moved on and probably will even more in 2 years time.
Switch 2 is about 2 years overdue and it will be the be same old Nintendo, which is great in someways when they release new big AAA in house games like a new 3d Mario game, but they take so dam long and long build ups.

Then in between the big in house Nintendo AAA games it will be old PS4 ports like RDR 2 for example and remakes running at probably 60fps.

If you are a single console gamer just Nintendo then that is great but if you are a multi console owner like me and have been for years then it has a very dull effect as a console.

I was even more excited when the Wii U released, which I had day one.

@Medic_alert
Smyths toys are really good.

@Joker1234 Sadly that isn't possible for me. Have classes in the morning of that day, so I can't just make a pre-order the moment the store opens.

Making sure you feel the pressure.

That retailer have limited allocation, but it doesn’t mean Nintendo will if you order direct. I imagine Nintendo will keep the bulk of stock for sale through their site. And why not, more money in their pocket

It's a desirable tech product. The scalping bots will swarm on them and there'll be hundreds of thousands on ebay for £1000+ within seconds of pre-orders opening.

I'll have a go at getting one, but I expect them to be all gone within seconds.

This speculation only helps fueling FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out.

You mean, according to a scalper that wants to earn money

This all doesn’t influence me. I’ll buy it if its available and otherwise I have a massive switch 1 backlog and can hold out a little longer. I think most of you all also don’t have to buy it day one from a scalper for more than regular price, right? Be strong 💪

@VoidofLight That's awful. I hope you can manage to get one before launch because that's no fun not being able to pre order one because of scalpers.

@Onosume I'm definitely trying to be in line once the doors open for pre-orders. I feel like a lot of people will have so much trouble pre-ordering online especially if you can't go in store.

@Joker1234 Here's to hoping. I kinda hope that most of the stock went to Nintendo's online shops. Either that, or my store in my town is going to have a better chance if I ask in person.

Luckily I already have mine pre ordered with Shopto (UK)

@VoidofLight I honestly can't remember the last time I even went out to pre-order a system tbh. I still haven't gotten a PS5 and I'm not sure whether pre-orders in store have changed or not lol. Do game stores still have large crowds for pre-orders or has the number decreased?

Well that’s just immensely disappointing. Sony and Microsoft botched their console launches too. Nvidia messed up RTX 50 series GPUs and AMD followed suit with RX 90 series. Seems like the only company that’s actually competent at supplying enough stock is Apple. Every other tech company always falls flat on their face.

@Oracles_fanboi Nintendo have no control over what retailers do regarding preventing scalpers so maybe a big part of that will be limiting how much goes to retailers and Nintendo selling more directly which they can control.

@X68000

Lol i actually missed that, i was never interested in the saturn.

From sega i only had dreamcast. Dreamcast was really good only not enough games that kept me interested. The 16 bit and saturn i only played at my friends house.

@Joker1234 No clue. Never pre-ordered a games console before. The last one I got was a PS5, and I bought it from a scalper back before Final Fantasy XVI released.

think I will wait until after the summer. same as with games in general i dont need to play/own it day one

@JohnnyMind I would think you'd be one of the most capable of waiting for a while if you have to, given your huge number of mid-process games you're balancing already!

@OldGamer999 I am a single-console player and have rarely felt like I'm missing out, though it has happened once or twice. Mainly with Eldin Ring, though by now I'm not even sure if I would bother with a port since the hype passes and I realize I've had plenty to play without it.

@OldGamer999 yep, i got my PS5 and my X1X from them day one, no issues at all.

@Dee123 That is true. My thinking is that Nintendo is either going to release their stock in waves, or make sure that stores are stocked with enough. I don't really trust the words of one company over the other- but I'm trying not to get my hopes up either.

@Dark_Isatari
I used to try being a single console owner
But not one console totally satisfied.

Nintendo do have their amazing in house AAA exclusives and so do Sony and with say the PS5 you also get the new big AAA from the third parties.
Xbox, they do have exclusives but as we know they going through transformation so who knows what games are going on what consoles.

@Medic_alert
Never forget when the PS5 preorders went live at Amazon, my son who was doing A levels at school and in class.
Took a toilet break I think at 9am when Amazon preorders went live in the UK and he got one 🤣

As for Switch 2, I shall wait and see the Nintendo big AAA games on release day before I preorder. But I think the one I’m after, new Mario 3d platform game will be October or November 2025 and will not release on Switch 2 launch day if in June or July.

As much as Mario Kart if on launch day will probably be great I will wait until the in house AAA games releases get going.
Not gonna be playing old PS4 games on a Switch 2 no point, I’ve played them.

Personally hoping it's April 9th for the preorders go live. That's when I get a pre-scheduled day off from work. I don't want to have to use PTO on April 2nd, either to watch the Switch 2 Direct or to go out and preorder the system. I'm trying to not only save my PTO, but build it back up (especially the sick time, which I completely burned through late last year and early this year after coming down with both norovirus and COVID within weeks of each other; and I only get one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked). So April 9th works out for me better.

Well, I don't plan on pre ordering. I'll take my chances on launch day. If I don't manage to get one, I'm patient, I'll wait until it's back in stock. Not gonna buy from a scalper, that's for sure.

@OldGamer999 to be honest, I just like new hardware and new Nintendo hardware is often the most fun of the lot.

In the end I know there will be something I want to play from Nintendo on it so might as well have it.

I'm super intrigued by the backwards compatibility implementation too. If we get proper upgrades that will make me very happy because while I loved the Switch concept at launch, some games were nigh on unplayable on it to me.

@LikelySatan why would tariffs impact Nintendo? They moved most of their manufacturing out of China years ago.

Might have to try one of my local game stores, as I highly doubt they are going to sell out there. Online will definitely be my first attempt though

Wonder if this is true, or if it’s a marketing ploy to get more people to try and preorder, thinking they’re going to sell out fast, give them that feeling of triumph as they get a spot, only for Nintendo to still have plenty of units

So glad I am skipping launch to play my massive Switch backlog for the first couple years. The stress of the Wii launch particularly is something I never want to go through for anything ever again.

I guess we'll see where this ship will land. I'm honestly not so sure if the Switch 2 will sell out immediately; sure it will be popular, but a LOT of people already have the current Switch and probably don't want to upgrade yet.

Personally I think most of us who want to get it day 1 should be fine, really.

Perhaps this is one of the retailers that broke the street date on Switch 1 games like Walmart or Amazon so Nintendo's punishing them by giving a smaller Switch 2 allocation?

I'm going to try and pre order Switch 2 day 1 but I really am not expecting to get it day 1

I've got one secured from CS for launch. I suspect t's not going to be so easy at retail though.

@UltimateOtaku91 I may be wrong, but I paid the "1p" pre order, and I'm pretty sure the small print qas basically "if we have enough"... so I would say it's not a guarantee.

If you were "pre ordering" within the first hour or so of them opening, and they do it as a first come, first serve basis though, you should be OK.

Unless they've sent secondary emails that I'm not aware of?

Just friendly precaution!

I still say they need to let NSO/NSO+ subscribers order directly so they avoid scalpers and guarantee an order even if it doesn’t ship/arrive on launch day.

Steam does it. Sony finally did it 6 months or so into the Ps5 launch. MS had the finance option/pre-order for S/X.

If they can all do it, so can you Nintendo! Please help us fans avoid retailer hell….

Wednesday won't be good for me because I work that day so I probably won't be able to get a Switch 2 preorder unless preorders last longer than a few hours.

@AstroTheGamosian ugh Noro was wicked this year! I luckily avoided it, think I’m some how resistant….. but my spouse gets it every year like clockwork, and this year it sent her to an urgent care+ facility to get IV hydration and a boatload of Zofran so she’d stop puking….

@Slideaway1983 Yeah that's the one I did, i think I did it the day after it went live so I'm hoping not many people knew about it and I'm high up in the list.

So much for "having enough" on launch lol

Wait wait wait wait wait.

A Nintendo system selling out AT LAUNCH?

What black magic is this? What dark god did we offend to make this astonishingly strange state of affairs happen? THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE

I will try a get one but with scalpers bots out there I know it won't be easy.

we don’t know if this is happening for real, this is a report, it’s not confirmed

Honestly I’m considering not preordering and waiting. I remember when the original Switch first came out many Switch had dead pixel problems.. maybe best to wait and have any problems or bugs iron out🤷‍♂️

claims aren’t proof until they’re confirmed

@dskatter Wii U did not sell out 🤷‍♂️

@Dee123 we don’t know it’s true, i’m not defending the company or anything, just not instantly believing everything i see, because this is could be a way to make more fomo

and i’m pretty sure there’s going to be more than one place to pre-order, i understand that, which is why, i seriously doubt this

@Oracles_fanboi we don’t know that, so why are acting it’s true

I can foresee a PS5 situation all over with Switch 2.

analysts are expecting this to be one of the biggest launches of time, i seriously doubt nintendo is going to mess it up

@Uncle_Franklin we don’t know the future

@Uncle_Franklin nah..

I am going to try to pre-order online as soon as I can (probably from Best Buy), but it may be very unlikely that I’ll be able to get one. It would be nice if Nintendo did direct pre orders with a limit 1 per paid NSO / NSO expansion account.

I am also mostly interested in it for a new 3D Mario which may not be day 1 anyway. I am not super interested in Mario Kart 9 right away. I still want to get the console in my hands as soon as possible though.

to be honest, i understand the hype, but i think we’re getting kinda desperate at this point

I remember the PS5 preorders were supposed to go live on a certain date, and they went live like a day before that.
I'd rather take my chances with a Switch 2 shadow drop since I've got three potential retailers within 2 miles of me.

@dskatter You jest, but I was really happy to just be able to walk into Walmart at midnight and walk out with a Gamecube on launch day 2001. No one was interested. They just had a big stack sitting in the electronics dept.

Compare that to Wii and Switch, which were hell to get around launch.

not the kind of thing I'm worried about.
if I don't get one on day one it doesn't matter.
I got a backlog of like 100 games.

@Dm9982 I totally agree. Maybe the right of first refusal for current switch owners with NSO? Pre-order code given a day in advanced.

good luck everyone! i got to get cash in my account haha, but at least i have it from selling my playstation. i hope nintendos plan to battle scalpers works out! its gonna be like the hunger games on april 2nd 😝

NEWSFLASH: High in Demand Limited Stock Item Will Be Difficult to Come By

Uh, thanks captain obvious.😁

If they didn’t sell out day 1, I would be shocked.

@umbreon_sylveon I mean I wouldn’t say no to that, but honestly I’d just be happy with a guaranteed ability to order at MRSP. No battling scalper bots or anything. Just go directly to Nintendo store, log in, and order directly. Also a guaranteed to arrive within the first 3 months. Happy enough with that, as I battled for months with Ps5 and finally gave up. Got an Xbox within 3 months of launch, and kept trying for Ps5 until right before Sony started sending links to Psn subscribers. Too little too late. Ended up getting a Steam Deck last year instead and can play all the Ps games I wanted to portable now.

If they sell out after a day, that's fine. But if I literally only have 2 minutes to get one, I will be livid.

I 100% expect the preorder situation to be a complete disaster. It was for the PS5, and it will be again for the Switch 2. Scalper bots will win the day and bring websites to their knees like always. I am not looking forward to it.

There are two ways to fight scalpers efficiently, but I doubt Nintendo will use either of these methods:

1. You have a preorder period, and queue up the people who preorder, they might not get the initial shipment, but are guaranteed to get one.

2. Or they jack up the price high enough that scalpers cannot jack it up further. Then as more units arrive at retailers, the price lowers.

If I can't preorder one I'm confident I can simply get one at the shop on launch day. It has never been as much of an issue over here in Germany as it regularly seems to be in the US.

@VoidofLight gamestop i go too will limit one console per person for instore preorders so i should be fine getting mine preordered.

Man, I showed up the day of launch to my local gamestop to grab a Switch. That place has since closed so I wonder what I'll do this time.

@Chlocean unless you find another one nearby since gamestop only keeps ones that are profitable open like the one i go too.

@RiasGremory Man, and the only reason I was able to show up without a preorder was because mine was practically abandoned and unprofitable 😭
I'll have to check nearby towns and actually preorder this time. Solid idea.

@X68000
I never heard of Saturn...
We went from hearing about Genesis to 32x to off-handed (years after release) Sega CD to DreamCast.
This was back on Long Island.
Hell, we didn't even have LaserDisk in stores. Player or Disks!
Somehow, though, our school did... But not many at all.

I don't get paid until the 3rd, so hopefully, pre-orders open a day or two later, but I highly doubt it.

Since all these stores are always bagging on Nintendo, maybe Nintendo should just open pre-orders on the eShop!
That'd be the best way to combat scalpers!

@glennthefrog
GameCube sold out and was ridiculous finding one on day one!
Suffolk county, NY

@Spider-Kev I was in Shelby, NC. There was big demand for N64, Wii and Switch at those respective launches. Wii Us and Gamecubes could be had easily from the jump. In retrospect I should've seen both those failures coming.

Will I be preordering day 1? Hell no. I am expecting dire financial pain in the coming months since my country decided to send a convict back to the White House instead of the Big House where he belongs. I have plenty of games on my backlog to tide me over and I hope to reward my patience with Zelda Switch 2 Special Edition that will inevitably release later in its lifecycle. Assuming of course I am able to afford one after the criminals in power are finished taking a chainsaw to the world’s economy.

I've been a day one purchaser for decades, but this time it depends on what the game line ups are.

One very big x factor in all this is the possibility Nintendo allows for preorders directly from themselves.

It is easy to allocate further units to retailers if need be at a later date, even before launch, but there is a possibility they are reserving more units for themselves to make buying direct the best experience. They could also tie purchases to 1-per Nintendo Account, to ensure more fair distribution, something they have no power to force on retailers.

All speculation, of course. We will learn a lot next week, but at the moment we just don’t know what availability actually looks like yet.

@Medic_alert yeah I'm working the 2nd as well and wont get in till late hoping they say precoder tomorrow as Ill be home.

Ill only get to see the direct once i get in in a rerun.

It's gonna be a very popular device, even more so if Mario Kart is a launch title, so yeah nothing surprising about this.

@RiasGremory I hope the Bestbuy near me has the same policy.

@Dee123 America has about as many morons as any other country honestly. We don’t have a monopoly, I promise.

I'll be working at home that day to make sure I secure an order. As long as my fingers are quick enough.

@Koffeeking0407 the fact you current administration got voted back in tells me otherwise.

@Servbot_EJ I did this with Switch and got one just 2-3 weeks after launch. Made for a fun memory too, with me getting the last one in the store and making the clerk say “oh you just answered my phone call for me” before he picked up the phone and said they just sold their last unit.

I still have several hundred Wii/DS/3DS/PS3/Switch games in my backlog. So will put in my preorder for the 2.0 version in 2032.

I still think that a pre-order being sold out is just plain stupid. So what? Let me pre-order for a future SW2 shipment. If people know they have a SW2 coming, less would buy from scalpers, I would hope. I'm not looking forward to stopping at the store every few days to check for a SW2, or constantly checking online stores.

Nintendo understocking a console? Odd, where have I heard this story before?

@Dee123 well you know what they say about opinions. If not feel free to look it up but really, politics have no place on a gaming site.

@DylanMcGrann they did that with the Alarmo. So it's quite possible.

@Dm9982 I must have gone to the bathroom between 20-30 times in a single day. I ended up losing 6.5 pounds of my body weight in the span of 24 hours. The problem was, I couldn't go to the hospital, because they wouldn't have been able to do anything for me. My area got hit hard with it, and the hospitals had a shortage of IV fluids. So they were telling everybody to drink Pedialyte. And let me tell you, that stuff is sickeningly sweet. It kind of reminded me of those Fla-Vor-Ice freeze pops that you would buy in the stores, if you drank the juice inside the tube without freezing it.

And then, just weeks after, I ended up with COVID for the second time in my life. I ended up passing it on to my parents, and they're high-risk patients, so I had to take even more time off to care for them. Where I work, the cap is 80 hours of sick time, and I was capped out; but between the norovirus and COVID, I burned through all of it. And to make matters worse, I only get one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked. I calculate that I won't make 40 hours of sick time until around September. So I can't really afford to use vacation days just to watch a Nintendo Direct or preorder a game console.

I’m not concerned. I will probably try to get one at launch but I’m not spending any time in line. If I get one great. If not I have plenty to keep me occupied until supply catches up with demand.

I'm not an expert, but I don't know why Nintendo doesn't just can't sell them for the first little while directly through thier site and maybe based (at first) on those who have Nintendo accounts. Like, 1 unit per account for the first run as like, early access and then to retailers for the 2nd print. Wouldn't that help with scalpers?

I don’t know anyone who seriously believes that Nintendo would allow enough supply to meet demand, even if they readily had it. They are the masters or artificial scarcity, gleefully limiting market availability and allowing scalpers to buy as much of whatever they want to create demand.

My backlog for Switch 1 is so extensive I just don’t really care. I also like to hold off on any new hardware due to potential physical bugs or what not. I got my Switch late, in 2021. So I’ve always played games well after release. Rarely have I felt any FOMO at all or like anything was ever “spoiled” and I read this website daily and keep up with news and blogs and streamers all things Nintendo.

So do t worry if you can’t get it day 1! Just have a Switch 1 game or two that you can fall back on if you have to wait a bit.

I'm just gonna do what I usually do when a new console releases, Wait 6 months to a year that way it's got a good amount of games that aren't the previous console's back catalogue and incase they release a new version like an oled version or whatever

The stuff that qualifies as newsworthy nowadays…reporting on the most obvious scenarios as if they’re surprising. 🙄

So to recap:

• There will be plenty of Switch 2s for everyone, and pre-orders will start the day of the Direct.
• Also, Switch 2s will sell out immediately, when pre-orders start a week after the Direct.

Did anyone think otherwise? Even if say they doubled the launch stock compared to the Switch 1 launch no way it would keep up with the fan demand + rabid scalpers looking for an easy pay day.

I never buy new consoles at launch anyway. Eventually the stock/fan demand ratio levels out and hopefully by then you got several games you are interested by then.

@UltimateOtaku91 I pre ordered on shopto for 1p the same day the switch 2 was revealed but I heard it isn't guaranteed

Day 1 pre-order if at all possible for me. You all can sit and play your backlogs on the OG and pretend you don't care, I'm going to play my backlog (and all the new stuff) on the Switch 2. I'm not going to sit here and pretend like this isn't a major Nintendo launch and won't matter to anyone.

@UltimateOtaku91 ah cool. Fingers crossed for you then, bud. I'm unsure when they went live (my emails are saying 16th Jan) and my preorder was the 17th; so maybe the same day! Question now is can I afford it, as I'm currently in a squeeze that I didn't anticipate, and then I have to factor in launch games... I may have to sell some of my more rare S1 games to get one! Grrr.

@Slideaway1983 Yeah that's my concern too, are Shopto going to take the money once the pre order price gets announced or do they take the money at dispatch? If its the former then I may also have to cancel as I probably won't have the money spare especially if pre orders go live properly next week. Fingers crossed its that they take money on dispatch 🤞.

@Jordium_Z It should be a first come first served basis but now I'm thinking those that pay the full amount first will get priority.

@AstroTheGamosian Ouch! Sorry to hear all that! IV shortage doesn’t surprise me with how many people i know that dealt with NV and COVID this few months..:: Yeah the wife lost 12.4lbs during her bout with it. She was retching for 2 days straight basically, and like you spent basically the entire time in the bathroom. We live in central IL, and luckily have Expres Care+ locations which is like a mini ER. They were treating mainly these super sick cases of NV like you and her had.

Glad you recovered tho! After witnessing it first hand, I could easily see this years NV take someone out with dehydration.

Edit - And yeah those Pedialytes are wicked stuff, 🤣. My daughter needed them a few years back (first covid round for us, 4 times so far, ugh.) And outta curiosity I tried it. We had grape, which tasted exactly like a Grape Flavor-Ice, but salted. Uuughh.

@UltimateOtaku91 I use shopto as my predominant store for switch and when I had a disk drive, ps5 - they usually offer the option of both payment methods (now and despatch), but if I remember rightly with the ps5 launch, they either wanted full price there and then or a deposit.

So I would imagine until it all dies down, there will be a payment "now". If it goes for 400 though, I'd hope they use reasonable assumptions given economic climate and essentially a shadow drop on pre orders, and say ask for £100. I'd be comfortable with that.

***edit*** with the reorder going live, there was an option to pay on despatch, so I'm certainly not positive... maybe it will be customer by customer as in do they follow through with orders etc. It's hard to say, but there could be that option.

I will pre-order only if I can buy straight from Nintendo. Otherwise I'll buy about 3 or 4 months in. Because I have a feeling the OS will not be ready with features we need for several months. You know how Nintendo likes to roll out things really really slowly.

@Dm9982 Northeastern Illinois for me, about 40 miles northwest of Chicago. We also have immediate care clinics up here (Northwestern Medicine, Advocate, and Mercy), but even then, there's likely nothing they could have done either.

But I am glad I recovered, too. Just wish I could have kept the weight off, though. When I weighed myself recently, I discovered I gained it all back. =(

I think I had the cherry and the orange Pedialytes. I mean, they weren't bad, but it will hopefully be a long while before I ever drink one again.

Now my brother, on the other hand, he ended up with it, too, and he actually did have to go to the ER. Fortunately, they managed to scrounge up some IV fluids for him. So he was lucky. Both of our parents and I, not so much.

I just know that now, I have to basically work all of my shifts at work in full in order to get my sick time back. Again, I estimate I won't hit 40 hours of sick time until September; August, at the earliest. So I really can't afford to take days off unless I absolutely have to.

A little bit surprised there are still so many people who have money to spend (Referring to US) in an era of high inflation, looming additional tariffs and reports of so many American families living paycheck to paycheck with little to no savings. I guess there are still enough people not in this category that gaming consoles like the Switch 2 still gets sold out immediately.

I don't understand why they don't do away with 'pre orders' as they currently are, and convert them to 'wait lists'. I'm not really in the market for a Switch 2, but if I was I'd be happy to pay a small deposit and have it fulfilled when it's ready.

Much better than this checking around, stock trackers, website crashing, scalper paradise that we are currently experiencing.

Or keep both, that way the Cannot-Wait's can try and find one that gets delivered next day, and the It-comes-when-it-comes crowd don't have to think about it.

I would prefer being able to buy mine directly from Nintendo, as I just did with Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition. Seems like making a Nintendo account mandatory and limiting one per customer would ease scalping a bit.

@JumpingJackson yes, I agree with this. Let me buy it and ship it to me when it’s available.

I still remember the terrible experience trying to find a PS5 at launch. It took me 3 months of hitting every restock and desperately putting in my purchase details on websites, only to have my cart come back empty because they sold out before I could finish the order. People were scalping those for 2x or more the price.

@8bit4Life Yeah I had the same madness, and I refuse to do it again. I'm happy to go on a 'can wait' list, so all those eager kids, teenagers who are desperate for one for birthdays can get one first.

@AstroTheGamosian Small world! Springfield area here, just outside of it in a small town.

@Dm9982 Much of my mother's side of the family is from Central Illinois; specifically, the Decatur/Forsyth area. In fact, a couple of them still live there! But I do have an aunt and uncle who live in Springfield. Small world, indeed.

@8bit4Life Not just having a Nintendo Account, but should require a Nintendo account that has been in existence for at least one year and then limit one console per Nintendo Account to purchase directly from Nintendo. They can remove that limitation after the first few weeks of preorders, but at least that would allow real fans to get the first crack at preorders.

Anything sold though traditional retailers is going to be a sh*t-show as it always is.

I hope scalpers don't get it before everyone else

I'm definitely going to preorder, but I hate the stress and chaos that comes with trying to get one, especially since websites will probably be crashing. Knowing that scalpers and people buying multiples while the rest of us try to just get one is so disheartening. I just wish there was a better method than the usual craziness.

@Grimley141 I like the idea of a Nintendo account with a limit of one being a prerequisite for early preorder access. Anything to cut down on scalpers and people buying multiples.