The Nintendo Switch 2 was officially announced on April 2. Nintendo was kind enough to reveal its design to us with unexpected precision, presented its games and also lifted the veil on its controversial Price. In recent weeks, pre-orders have also been open, in France in any case, since the United States can only book it since yesterday.
Despite the good news, a shadow hangs all the same above the Nintendo Switch 2: that of the shortage. The same who struck the PS5, the Xbox Series but also the very first Switch in 2017. Are the conditions met so that all players can have their copy of the Nintendo Switch 2 from the day of the launch if they wish? The answer is less delightful than we thought.
Learn errors from the past
In the past 8 years, we imagine that Nintendo has learned lessons from the difficulties encountered during the launch of the Nintendo Switch. It was so far thought that there was little chance that the firm reproduced the same errors and lets a shortage occur because of the scalpers or the lack of fleas.
Several months ago, Shuntaro Furukawa, the president of Nintendo, assured that the current supply chain would be robust enough to meet the planned demand. But how high it will be? This is an answer that we do not have at the moment but that we can start guess. Nintendo plans to produce enough consoles to sell 20 million units in one yearwhich is considered to be a reassuring volume for its immediate availability.
Already chaos in pre -orders
But these projections do not seem to live up to real demand. More than 2.2 million requests have already been recorded in Japan just on the official Nintendo website (not counting the resellers), and in the United States, Nintendo has already warned: No delivery guarantee for the day of the launchand some invitations will only be sent after June 5.
From the opening of pre-orders in the United States on April 24 at midnight, the dream turned into a nightmare for thousands of players. Invisible queues, Interminable anti-BOT verification loops, overloaded e-commerce sites : Partner platforms like Walmart, Target and Best Buy have all won the weight of demand. Some orders were canceled without explanation, and those who had managed to place the console in their basket have sometimes never been able to finalize the purchase.
Barely a few hours after the opening of sales, hundreds of consoles were already sold on eBay more than $ 700an increase of more than 50 % compared to the basic price.
The equivalent of sales of a pro switch
Despite the promises, the figures speak for themselves: demand already exceeds the supply, the scalpers prowl, the servers let go and the players are getting impatient. Unless a last minute turnaround in production or distribution, the Nintendo Switch 2 seems to be a shortage to find out a shortage when it was launched.
Finally, it must still be taken into account that the next console of the manufacturer is not a revolution unlike Switch 1, but it contains all the ingredients that made the success of its predecessor. A large number of players currently on Nintendo Switch will be tempted by the next generation that once their device becomes obsolete or the need for a rise in power will be felt, which should not happen in several months – even years.
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