Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order date leak points to early April


Pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 will open on Wednesday, April 2 — if you believe retailer Best Buy Canada, which announced that pre-order date in a blog post (and then quickly pulled it) on Thursday. A new report from Insider Gaming, citing documents from an unnamed “large U.S. retailer,” says pre-orders for Switch 2 will open a week later, on April 9.

Nintendo itself hasn’t announced when pre-orders for Switch 2 will go live, so it’s unclear if the company will start taking pre-orders the same day it holds its Nintendo Direct: Switch 2 showcase (April 2), or if it will give us another week to consider the next-gen system’s merits. Polygon has reached out to Nintendo for comment and will update when the company responds.

While Nintendo hasn’t announced a release date or price for its new system, Switch 2 is expected to launch in early June, meaning that pre-orders would likely be open for about two months.

Anticipation for the Switch successor is high, and Nintendo is reportedly stockpiling a large number of Switch 2 consoles to meet that demand. That demand may fluctuate based on how much Nintendo will charge for Switch 2, but that’s something we’re bound to know soon enough.



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