Here’s how you can preorder the Nintendo Switch 2 (or try to)

After years of rumors, Nintendo has finally announced a merchandise day for the Switch 2. The long-awaited successor to the Switch volition beryllium disposable on June 5th for $449.99. It volition beryllium disposable for preorder successful the US from prime retailers starting connected April 9th, arsenic some a standalone console oregon bundled with Mario Kart World for $499.99.

As predicted, the Switch 2 features a larger 7.9-inch LCD display, with enactment for 1080p solution and HDR, 256GB of built-in storage, and up to 6.5 hours of artillery life. The Joy-Cons are bigger, too, and present magnetically connect to the console alternatively of relying connected a brace of sliding rails to drawback into place. They besides connection mouse-like functionality with prime games, and the close Joy-Con sports a “C” button, which tin beryllium utilized for in-game chat features, screensharing, and different actions.

As for games, the Switch 2 volition motorboat with Mario Kart World, on with third-party games similar Split Fiction and Cyberpunk 2077. The console will besides beryllium backward-compatible with archetypal Switch games and enactment enhanced versions of prime titles, including The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

Below, we’ve rounded up each the preorder accusation you request if you privation to beryllium 1 of the archetypal to get your hands connected it. We’ll beryllium updating this station regularly arsenic much accusation becomes available, truthful bookmark this leafage if you’re keen connected learning much up of the launch.

How to preorder via Nintendo

The lone confirmed retailer arsenic of present is the My Nintendo Store, which comes with a drawstring of eligibility requirements — 1 of which requires you to registry your involvement successful beforehand of April 9th. To bash so, you’ll request to motion successful with your Nintendo relationship and take which console configuration you similar (and which accessories). Then, you’ll person an invitation email erstwhile it’s clip to bargain it, assuming you’ve satisfied respective different conditions.

As of close now, the preservation process is constricted to Nintendo relationship holders successful the US and Canada who are astatine slightest 18 years old. Invitations volition beryllium valid for 72 hours and volition beryllium “prioritized connected a first-come, first-served basis,” according to Nintendo; you’ll besides request to person purchased a Nintendo Switch Online rank for a minimum of 12 months and person logged 50 hours of gameplay connected the archetypal Switch arsenic of April 2nd, 2025, to beryllium eligible. What’s more, you indispensable person opted successful to share gameplay information with Nintendo (you tin spot if you’ve done truthful in the privateness section erstwhile logged into your account).

Once invitations person been sent to relationship holders who person met these criteria, Nintendo says it volition nonstop invitations to “remaining eligible registrants” connected a first-come, first-served basis. Unsurprisingly, the invitations volition beryllium nontransferable and sent to the email code you utilized portion registering your involvement with Nintendo. Console and accessory purchases volition beryllium constricted to 1 per eligible account, astatine slightest during the archetypal invitation period, with the archetypal batch of invitations going retired connected May 8th.

Additional invitations volition travel periodically, though Nintendo hasn’t specified details beyond that.

How to preorder elsewhere

As mentioned above, Nintendo is the lone retailer frankincense acold that has provided immoderate penetration into however preorders volition enactment erstwhile they unfastened connected April 9th. That said, you tin already motion up astatine Best Buy and GameStop to person notifications astir the upcoming console and games. Presumingly, this volition besides see preorder details erstwhile they’re available.

Like with erstwhile launches, we expect that Amazon, Target, and Walmart volition each person constricted banal of the console, arsenic well. But contempt Nintendo “taking risks” to guarantee it tin conscionable demands, reports indicate that US retailers mightiness not person capable Switch 2 consoles to conscionable preorder demands. With immoderate luck, Nintendo’s stringent preservation requirements volition thwart immoderate imaginable scalpers.