2.2 million people applied for the Switch 2 preorder lottery on the Japanese My Nintendo store alone

[Mar1217]

Mr.GameCrazy said:

TallSilhouette said:

Caved in and decided to preorder in case trade war BS raises the price again in the future. Had Best Buy, Target, and Walmart ready to go. Best Buy was useless this time around (bought my PS5 at launch from them). Target jerked me around for 40 minutes with hundreds of attempts to check out before they canceled my order outright. I was about to call it a night when I suddenly reached the front of the digital line at Walmart. Once there they handled the order like pros. Looking forward to hopping on the track in early June.

Same. I tried Target first, but it wouldn't let me buy it and kept giving me errors, so I ended up using Walmart, and I got it! I did have trouble at first, but after using my PayPal account to buy it, it worked!

Honestly, I don't think I'll ever preorder a console again. It was really stressful. 😅

Phew, that's the first reason I did not want to bother to try getting a preorder online. It seems more a hassle than just hoping to your nearest brick&mortar store(if available) and asking for said pre-order availability.

That's how I got mine, easy peasy.