Nintendo issues Switch 2 supply warning in Japan

Shortages of the Switch 2 look progressively apt aft Nintendo admitted contiguous that it “cannot fulfill” each of the preorder applications it has already received done its ain Japanese store. 

In a statement connected X via Nintendo’s Japanese account, president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed that the company’s storefront has received 2.2 cardinal applications to preorder the caller console successful Japan alone. That’s a fig that “far exceeds our expectations, and acold exceeds the fig of Nintendo Switch 2 consoles that tin beryllium delivered from the My Nintendo Store connected June 5th.”

In its archetypal period connected merchantability the archetypal Switch sold 360,000 units successful Japan, suggesting that Nintendo is seeing six times the request for its sequel. The Japanese request for time 1 is astir arsenic precocious arsenic the 2.74 cardinal Switch consoles the institution sold worldwide successful its archetypal fewer weeks successful 2017.

Furukawa didn’t accidental however galore consoles Nintendo has acceptable for the launch, but lone that “a important fig of customers” won’t beryllium fortunate successful the My Nintendo Store lottery. Those who don’t get a console volition beryllium automatically re-entered into a 2nd lottery, portion third-party retailers successful Japan volition statesman taking preorders tomorrow, April 24th. In Japan Nintendo is offering 2 versions of the Switch 2: a Japanese-only exemplary for ¥49,980 (about $350) and a ¥69,980 (about $500) multilingual mentation which is exclusively disposable done the My Nintendo Store.

Preorders person already been unfastened for respective weeks successful immoderate parts of the world, including astir of Europe, and stores person sold retired fast. US preorders unfastened tomorrow for $449.99, pursuing an initial delay implicit tariff concerns.