Shortages of the Swap 2 look more and more probably after Nintendo admitted as we speak that it “can’t fulfill” the entire preorder purposes it has already acquired by way of its personal Japanese retailer.
In a assertion on X through Nintendo’s Japanese account, president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed that the corporate’s storefront has acquired 2.2 million purposes to preorder the brand new console in Japan alone. That’s a quantity that “far exceeds our expectations, and much exceeds the variety of Nintendo Swap 2 consoles that may be delivered from the My Nintendo Retailer on June fifth.”
In its first month on sale the unique Swap offered 360,000 items in Japan, suggesting that Nintendo is seeing six instances the demand for its sequel. The Japanese demand for day one is sort of as excessive as the two.74 million Swap consoles the corporate offered worldwide in its first few weeks in 2017.
Furukawa didn’t say what number of consoles Nintendo has prepared for the launch, however solely that “a big variety of clients” received’t be fortunate within the My Nintendo Retailer lottery. Those that don’t get a console will probably be mechanically re-entered right into a second lottery, whereas third-party retailers in Japan will start taking preorders tomorrow, April twenty fourth. In Japan Nintendo is providing two variations of the Swap 2: a Japanese-only mannequin for ¥49,980 (about $350) and a ¥69,980 (about $500) multilingual model which is completely accessible by way of the My Nintendo Retailer.
Preorders have already been open for a number of weeks in some elements of the world, together with most of Europe, and shops have offered out quick. US preorders open tomorrow for $449.99, following an preliminary delay over tariff considerations.