Nintendo Switch pre-orders have been snapped up at almost all retailers
GameStop, Best Buy, Amazon, Target, Walmart and others are all showing no availability.
Good luck pre-ordering a Nintendo Switch. It appears that cosumers have grabbed up the allotments given to most major retailers, with no word on when - or if - pre-orders will open again before the handheld-console hybrid launches on March 3.
Major retailers GameStop, Best Buy, Amazon, Target, Walmart and Toys R Us are showing the unit as unavailable if you try to pre-order (via Polygon). Pre-orders kicked off on Friday and demand has been incredibly high. EBay has numerous listings for the console, with many going fro twice the suggested $299.99 retail price.
GameStop released a statement saying it was "working closely with Nintendo to get additional Nintendo Switch units."
Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime said the compnay plans to have at least two million units available at launch, and it wants to avoid the supply-and-demand problem that plagued the launch of the NES Classic.
If you were one of the lucky ones that got your pre-order in, you can start planning what games you want to play on it, although you will need to buy those separately as no bundles are planned for the console.
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I have a feeling ebay will have a pretty good stock at inflated prices.
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Got a neon one on Best Buy. Waiting for amazon to go up with theirs for that sweet 5% back
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Amazon already went up at midnight (PST) on the 13th.
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I meant the neon version. They haven't had that one up yet. Just the gray one.
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http://www.nowinstock.net/videogaming/consoles/nintendoswitch/
Set yourself up an alert if you still want to pre-order one. Walmart stock has been going in and out all weekend. Newegg also just put up stock, but sold out pretty quickly. -
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according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/276768/global-unit-sales-of-video-game-consoles/
ps4 sold 4.49m in it's first 6 weeks (last 6 weeks of 2013)
xbox one sold 3.08m in it's first 5 weeks (last 5 weeks of 2013)
wii u sold 2.17m in it's first 6 weeks (last 6 weeks of 2012)
converting those to 1 month (this is of course assuming it was flat per week, not mostly at launch and then a trickle after and so probably makes no real sense, but just for fun):
ps4 sold: 3m
xbox one sold: ~2.5m
wiiu sold: ~1.45m
and that's launching during holiday season, not march. 2m sounds reasonable given that demand seems tepid and how willing people are to buy a console in march, not for xmas. there will be your day 1 buyers regardless, but i would guess demand will be fairly low until mario comes out and people go to buy their gifts
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