Nintendo says invites for its own Switch 2 sales may arrive after launch

In a caller update to its website astir its nonstop income programme for the Switch 2, Nintendo says that owed to “the precise precocious demand” for the console, “delivery by June 5 is not guaranteed” and that “your invitation email whitethorn get aft the Nintendo Switch 2 launch.”

Nintendo has already said that the archetypal invitations for eligible registrations connected its My Nintendo Store website would spell retired connected May 8th. The requirements to beryllium eligible are quite strict, seemingly to thwart scalpers.

But now, arsenic it did for Japan yesterday, the institution is signaling that US request for consoles done its ain store is rather high. If you were banking connected getting a Switch 2 done the platform, you mightiness privation to beryllium prepared to perchance wait.

In its update, Nintendo suggests visiting “our participating retail partners,” but the preorders that person happened truthful far, which kicked disconnected astatine 12AM ET connected Thursday astatine Best Buy, Target, and Walmart, have been messy.

Ahead of those preorders, the database of retail partners connected Nintendo’s website included Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and GameStop. As I constitute this, lone GameStop, which opens online preorders astatine 11AM ET connected Thursday, has a logo connected the page.