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

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The situation seems to be much the same for other retailers; apparently one store was allotted 320 units for launch, yet one customer who preordered there says they were number 6000 in line.

A smaller store had 125 consoles, but so far over 900 preorders.

https://www.gonintendo.com/contents/47913-japanese-retailers-see-massive-switch-2-stock-allotments-but-demand-still-far