Nintendo Switch Sold Out At Amazon, GameStop, Walmart, and Best Buy - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 16 January 2017 / 19,547 Views
In only a few days pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch has sold out at Amazon, GameStop, Walmart, and Best Buy.
GameStop revealed it was allocated 500,000 Switch consoles for launch and 250,000 people are now on a waiting list. 1.2 million games have also been pre-ordered at GameStop.
Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime said that two million Switch consoles will be shipped in its first month.
Thanks Metro.
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We told 2 million in March wasn't enough, Nintendo, you need more.
Thank my lucky stars I got my pre-order plus the Special Edition of Breath of the Wild!
The real test is how it will do weekly.
I've a couple games preordered, but wasn't able to get the console; hope they get more ready or I'll have a very sad March 3rd lol... the prospect of finally holding the new Zelda game and being unable to play it gives me violent urges.
You can always get it on Wii U, there will be plenty of those available :P
Just go really early and wait in a line people. You'll get one if you want it bad enough.
2 milion ww and 500k for Gamestop makes sense. Isnt Gamestop responsible for like 80% of the US consoles sales? Maybe 700k total for the US, 500k for Europe and the remaining for Japan + RotW? It would make sense.
It's to be expected really.
Switch is going to destroy the 1mill sales of the ps4 and make it look kinda lame
Gamestop wouldnt lie about the numbers, so its either the 2 millions are for a single region or that Nintendo said to everyone 2 millions but said to retailers that they were open to ship more if needed.In any case, if this keeps selling out around the world, i think its likely that Nintendo increases the shipment.
Good find there. Hopefully we get some confirmation.
Keep in mind that Reggie is over Nintendo of America, not Nintendo worldwide, so that may support he's referring to just one region.
Gamestop operators in a lot of countries, so it's not necessarily just US numbers.
Gah, I hate it how you can't edit comments. Obviously I meant 'operates' and not 'operators'.
