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Wyrdness on 21 January 2017

https://shigerunews.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/nintendo-switch-sold-out-in-minutes-in-japan/

http://thisgengaming.com/2017/01/21/nintendo-switch-has-incredible-demand-in-japan-online-in-store-pre-orders-sold-out-in-minutes/

Pre-orders made available at 9am and apparently had sold out in online and high street stores with in 5-15 minutes, wonder how Splatoon 2 will perform over there compared to the original.

Edit: Another thread on the same topic is around please lock

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JRPGfan on 21 January 2017

Its like 250$ there, and they love handhelds.

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Hynad on 21 January 2017

JRPGfan said:
Its like 250$ there, and they love handhelds.

EDIT: I see you mean by converting 29.980 Yen to USD. Then we get 261$.

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Darwinianevolution on 21 January 2017

If there's a place where Nintendo can't afford their usual hardware droughts, it's Japan. A healthy japanese userbase will convince a lot of japanese devs to support this early on.

You know it deserves the GOTY.

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