Shortages of the Swap 2 look more and more possible after Nintendo admitted immediately that it “can not fulfill” all the preorder purposes it has already obtained by way of its personal Japanese retailer.
In a statement on X through Nintendo’s Japanese account, president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed that the corporate’s storefront has obtained 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 sold 360,000 units 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 bought 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 major variety of clients” received’t be fortunate within the My Nintendo Retailer lottery. Those that don’t get a console shall be robotically 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 obtainable by way of the My Nintendo Retailer.
Preorders have already been open for a number of weeks in some components of the world, together with most of Europe, and shops have bought out quick. US preorders open tomorrow for $449.99, following an initial delay over tariff issues.