Gamers Are Mobbing Nintendo Switch 2 Preorders Worldwide Despite Calls to ‘Drop the Price’

Absence only makes the heart grow fonder. If that idiom holds true, it means bad tidings for Americans looking to get their hands on the Switch 2. U.S. and Canada-based Nintendo fans will be some of the last in the world to have the opportunity to preorder the Nintendo Switch 2 at 12:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, April 24. If you want an inkling of how hectic events will be this week, take a gander at the hysteria of worldwide Switch 2 preorders. Nintendo itself indicated that even preorders through the My Nintendo Store’s anti-scalper “priority” console lottery may not guarantee you a first crack at the new handheld at launch June 5. Though some people online complained relentlessly about the $450 price tag of the Switch 2, Nintendo is already apologizing to people in Japan who may not get a Switch on release day. In a post to X (read via machine translation), Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said it received “an extremely large number of applications” in Japan alone for its lottery sa ... Read full article.