Switch is sold out everywhere. 100%

Selling double price on eBay.

Perhaps the people are busy playing Zelda?

Nintendo launches arent like their competition. They ship less in an effort to gain buzz off of scarcity. Sony doesnt use scarcity to create buzz, they create buzz by selling to as many people as they can. Its the exact opposite. 

Agreed. The Switch is nice though. Im waiting until E3 to see if I should get the Switch or the Wii U version becaause I feel like Nintendo is holding some cards much like Microsoft. 

I got mine at midnight release.
Then the whole day after, my friends were trying to find one, they were sold out everywhere and the only ones available were from scalpers off Amazon for $600.
We went to Wal-Mart, they didn't have any systems on available for purchase.

My boss, who's a big PlayStation fan and hated the Wii U and was generally unfavorable towards Nintendo was hounding me for weeks, "Give me your Switch! Give me your Switch!"
Some people I talk to on the street who see me and my friends playing 1-2 Switch (not as bad as I thought it'd be, in fact, I'm actually enjoying it a little bit) were asking "Is that the Switch?! Man, I wish I could get it!"
There has been a lot more excitement and buzz around the Switch than compared to the Wii U. (Though that isn't saying much.)
I don't know if it's a Europe thing, (that's the impression I get based off the comment section here)
But in U.S. and Japan, it's flying off the shelves in the first 24 hours.

the scary thing is, yes it did sell out.... but one can argue that the ps4 might have done just as well during the big switch launch week...... the ps4 is outselling the switch on amazon....

Yeah I agree.  Price cuts and key games can do wonders for a system.

Was it? Now I look stupid :P. Still the logic still applies! It will eventually find success, but it just lacks a library. the difference with this and WiiU is Nintendo's full development team is focusing on one console this generation, rather then having to focus on a handheld + homeconsole, they only have to develop for switch now. 

I just got back from my local Walmart to pick up a CD Box I had ordered. I go to the pickup counter and she says, "If you're here for Nintendo Switch, we're all sold out," before I had even said anything!

So it's hot here at least...

At least here it hasn't had a lot of buzz, online newspapers were talking more about zelda than the switch. It trended on twitter yesterday though. I live in Chile and here the thing is like 500 bucks so I guess market size is almost irrelevant, but I remember a lot of buzz for the ps4 launch at least.

I guess USA and Japan is where the thing is hot

Well I personally love zelda on my Wii-U but like mentioned before.

People will buy the switch, play zelda and either they didn't own a wii-u and play mario kart but the next system seller is splatoon and nintendo has plenty of work to do to make the online better.

Splatoon could be a more "lasting" title especially with mario kart as a back up but Zelda isn't a game most people will play for months.

Either way the launch has been extremely quiet and some stores even had stock of the console up untill this morning in my country, thats really suprising. Nintendo is gonna have a hard road especially if the Scorpio hype is going to start and E3 from both Sony and Microsoft will proberbly be more exciting then Nintendo's

Unless... there is a metroid or something :O