Retailers are expecting that they will run out of pre-order units for the Nintendo Switch 2 on day 1, despite Nintendo allegedly accumulating a large quantity for launch.
That’s according to internal emails and documents provided to Insider Gaming from a large US retailer, who are anticipating they will sell out of the Switch 2 on the same day they open up the pre-orders due to a limited unit allocation from Nintendo.
According to the documents, the Switch 2 is scheduled to release in June, a release month that has already been a widely rumoured and was a highly talked about by developers at this year’s GDC.
However, the documents do add a little confusion as to when the pre-orders go live, especially following the Best Buy Canada “leak” earlier this week that revealed they’d go live on April 2nd.
According to the documents from the US retailer, pre-orders are set to go live on April 9th, one week after the Nintendo Switch 2 direct. The documents include a messaging strategy following the direct to include “Pre-Order Coming Soon” messaging and a Countdown Clock that will end on April 9, with an exact time to be confirmed by Nintendo on April 2.
The documents also included details on a exclusive collectible coin for those who pre-order the console.
Whether or not Best Buy Canada’s “leak” was a mistake or not is unclear, but the company did promptly remove the information after it started circulating online. In any case though, pre-order’s are almost certainly going to live within a week of the direct.
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