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Were You Able to Secure a Switch 2 Preorder?

Yes 464 34.42%
 
Not Yet, But Hopefully Soon 118 8.75%
 
No, Will Buy One Down The Road 363 26.93%
 
Not Planning on Getting One 402 29.82%
 
Total:1,347
JWeinCom on 25 April 2025

Yup. Walked into Gamestop at 630 or so yesterday and was able to preorder it without much issue.

I'm actually not super jazzed about the launch titles. I'll enjoy Mario Kart I'm sure, and I'm looking forward to the additional mode for Kirby forgotten land. I'm also looking forward to bravely default. But none of those are really must haves for me.

I'm most looking forward to Kirby Air Riders but sadly that's not a launch title.



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Cobretti2 on 25 April 2025

You can still order it in Australia lol:
https://www.ebgames.com.au/featured/nintendo-switch



 

 

The_Yoda on 25 April 2025

I didn't get an invite from Nintendo and looks like I may have waited too long in the USA.... I am the only no but hopefully in the poll



axumblade on 25 April 2025
The_Yoda said:

I didn't get an invite from Nintendo and looks like I may have waited too long in the USA.... I am the only no but hopefully in the poll

Since GameStop is doing a lot of their pre-orders in person, it seems like some of the stores have more availability than online. Might be worth a call to your local stores?





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DroidKnight on 25 April 2025

2-3 months ago I converted my World Point Awards into 5 $100 Amazon gift cards to snag one. I'll have to wait a bit longer, lol.



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JWeinCom on 25 April 2025
The_Yoda said:

I didn't get an invite from Nintendo and looks like I may have waited too long in the USA.... I am the only no but hopefully in the poll

Nintendo invites are not expected until early May 8 I believe.



The_Yoda on 25 April 2025
axumblade said:
The_Yoda said:

I didn't get an invite from Nintendo and looks like I may have waited too long in the USA.... I am the only no but hopefully in the poll

Since GameStop is doing a lot of their pre-orders in person, it seems like some of the stores have more availability than online. Might be worth a call to your local stores?

Unfortunately also sold out at both GameStops near me ...



The_Yoda on 25 April 2025
JWeinCom said:
The_Yoda said:

I didn't get an invite from Nintendo and looks like I may have waited too long in the USA.... I am the only no but hopefully in the poll

Nintendo invites are not expected until early May 8 I believe.

Well hopefully I get one then, I'll be looking around that time again.

Thanks all



curl-6 on 25 April 2025

Got mine when preorders opened here three weeks ago.

Bagged the console, MK World, a Pro controller, and Cyberpunk, and the first thing I do when I fire it up is heading to the eshop to buy FAST Fusion.

Cobretti2 said:

You can still order it in Australia lol:
https://www.ebgames.com.au/featured/nintendo-switch

Yeah I got mine from JB Hifi with no issues; weird that I'm hearing about it being sold out pretty much everywhere else, but here in our country of less than 30 million people it's freely available.

I feel like we have less of a culture of FOMO and having to have the cool new thing day 1 compared to some other places, like we have no equivalent to Black Friday.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 25 April 2025

BasilZero on 25 April 2025

Yes - it was the last one too at my local GameStop.

I posted about it on the Nintendo thread

BasilZero said:

I got so damn lucky today.

So I stayed up till 2AM and failed to get a pre-order for Switch 2 on Best Buy (app and site), Target (app and site), and Walmart (app and site)

Woke up 3 hours later to get ready for work - ya...had 3 hours of sleep.

Tried to order from GameStop (app and site) at 10AM - didnt work, the site was dead and the app just failed to load.

I was tired from work - was suppose to leave at 4PM but my co-worker didnt feel well and left so I had to cover their shift which ended at 6 PM.

As I left at 6PM from work, a thought ran in my mind, maybe I should call up my local GameStop which is close to my house , walking distance, I always see it when I go on my trail walks during the weekends.

This was around 6:15 PM - before I could ask, the employee started the call saying they were out of the MKW bundles but had the core Switch 2 bundles - only 5 were left. The guy said he doesnt know if they'll be left in another hour.

I kid you not, the drive back home was hell - traffic was blocked up out of all days, people driving at fricken 30 MPH on a fricken 55 MPH road - like wtf. Every damn turn I took, slow ass drivers.

I got to my local GameStop at 7:00 PM, cause the drive took a lot longer than it usually did.

Got into the store, some lady was trading in a game and that shit took forever, asking a bunch of questions - bear in mind, this was my first time going physically into a store for gaming wise in over 3 years and this was my first time shopping at GameStop in over a decade because I always avoided it from experiences with them trying upsell me a used game for new.

The guy at the counter said there was only one pre-order of the Core Switch 2 SKU left - I ordered it , gave a $50 down payment.

So fricken happy! Got lucky because a few other people walked in as I was leaving asking if there were any more Switch 2 pre-orders.

I feel so damn lucky, getting the last one lol.