Nintendo issues Switch 2 supply warning in Japan: 2.2 million people have applied to buy the new console in Japan so far, which ‘far exceeds’ Nintendo’s expectations.

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• idriss@lemm.ee ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Why the switch when you can have the steam deck? I am confused

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• gwilikers@lemmy.ml ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Am I the only one who thinks its pretty stupid Nintendo wasn’t prepared for 2million+ preorders in their home country?

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• Exusia@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Selected for the lottery sale”

  Goddamn that’s like the ps5. "Be a good little corpo shill and you ought WIN a CHANCE at being *honored * with the opporunity to give a usa $500!

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  • pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Personally I think it’s a much fairer system than letting bots scalp all units on their website. Unless you’d prefer that?

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Japan is super into lottery based sales. Even for things like concerts

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    • pm_me_anime_thighs@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Its a good way to combat scalpers and gives ordinary people at least a chance to buy it without spam refreshing a website only for bots to grab everything anyway.

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is so dumb.

  “We had way more preorders than expected, in order to fulfill our preorders, we will be delaying in store sales until after preorders have been completed”

  that would bd such a simple solution. It’s not like they are out any money either way, and pushing an instore sale date back to make other prior commitments work isn’t a horrible thing, it just means that people who didn’t bother to preorder won’t get it day 1, but most who wanted it day 1 would have pre-ordered it anyway.

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  • testfactor@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They probably don’t have the warehouse capacity to store all those extra units. There’s a lot of logistics involved in housing and shipping 2.2mil consoles, and “just wait” can be way harder than you would think.

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    • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think he meant to just not ship to stores until all the online, pre-release orders had been delivered.

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• emb@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I appreciate them trying to set expectations, but then I also think a statement like this throws fuel on the fire, making more people want to scalp it.

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• SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  More confirmation that waiting a year or two before even considering buying a Switch2 is a good idea.

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• FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How many of those orders are Americans trying to get around import restrictions and tariffs?

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  • Nikelui@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How many scalpers, also?

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I thought you couldn’t get in the lottery without an account for 12 months? I would assume they would know the geolocation of the account and only say the Japanese accounts in this.

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  • primemagnus@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s still got to get it to the US. You can’t circumvent Tarrifs unless you buy the item outside the country and lie at the border.

    Buying elsewhere means when it hits your local customs, you pay the increase there.

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