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Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders are officially unrecorded at Nintendo's online store — but lone if you've received an invite. As advertised, the My Nintendo Store began sending retired Switch 2 pre-order invites connected Thursday to those who antecedently registered their involvement and conscionable the company's "priority criteria."
If you've been chosen, congratulations! You person 72 hours from the clip your email was sent to implicit your purchase. If you antecedently signed up but haven't received a notice, well, we'll person to spot erstwhile precisely it'll arrive. Nintendo has been accepting registrations since April 2, and it's sending invites to past Switch players and Switch Online subscribers earlier anyone else.
If you conscionable the precedence requirements and signed up connected the earlier side, you should (hopefully) get your invitation earlier astir others. If you signed up later, don't beryllium amazed if it takes awhile for Nintendo to grace your inbox. The institution warned past month that it whitethorn not beryllium capable to nonstop each invites — oregon adjacent present each orders that bash get placed — earlier the Switch 2's June 5 merchandise date.
Beyond Nintendo, the opus sadly remains the same. As of our latest check, the instrumentality remains afloat sold retired astatine Walmart, GameStop, Best Buy, Target and different retailers. This has mostly been the lawsuit successful the US since the Switch 2 archetypal went up for merchantability connected April 24, and it remains unclear erstwhile it'll change.
That said, we're keeping an oculus retired for immoderate astonishment restocks that popular up. If you're inactive hoping to get your hands connected the instrumentality early, we've rounded up each the Switch 2 pre-order listings we could find for casual entree and breached down what to cognize astir buying the console.
How to pre-order the Nintendo Switch 2 astatine the My Nintendo Store
As noted above, Nintendo is lone selling the Switch 2 done an invitation system, which began connected April 2. While it seems improbable you'll person your console earlier motorboat time if you sign up with Nintendo now, we inactive urge doing truthful successful lawsuit banal remains debased astatine different stores. Registration is free, and you'll person your invitation eventually, adjacent if it takes immoderate time.
On that point, Nintendo says it is prioritizing invites "on a first-come, first-served basis" to registrants who conscionable the pursuing criteria:
You indispensable person purchased a Switch Online rank arsenic of April 2, 2025. If you've lone ever been portion of a household program and weren't the paying account, that's a no-go.
You indispensable person been a paid Switch Online subscriber for astatine slightest 12 months arsenic of April 2, 2025.
You indispensable person logged astatine slightest 50 hours of full Switch gameplay clip arsenic of April 2, 2025.
You indispensable person opted into sharing gameplay information with Nintendo arsenic of April 2, 2025. You tin corroborate this successful your account's privacy settings.
You indispensable beryllium a Nintendo relationship holder who is astatine slightest 18 years old.
If you fulfill those requirements, you'll beryllium up successful Nintendo's invitation queue. If not, you'll person to hold until aft the precedence registrants person their emails. Once they do, the remaining invites volition spell retired connected a first-come, first-served basis. Whenever you get your email, you'll person a 72-hour model to buy.
As with different stores, you person 2 models to prime from: the base Switch 2 console for $450, and a bundle with Mario Kart World for $500. Note that you tin lone acquisition 1 console per invite. You'll besides beryllium capable to prime up definite accessories erstwhile it's your clip to shop.
Pre-order Nintendo Switch 2
Pre-order Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World bundle
We received our invitation precocious Thursday evening aft signing up astir an hr aft the registration model archetypal opened. We've posted screenshots of what the authoritative invitation email and buying process looks similar below. (A erstwhile mentation of this usher linked to screenshots from Reddit and the gaming forum ResetEra, but 1 ResetEra idiosyncratic appears to person shared a fake invite, truthful we've removed that.) Broadly speaking, the acquisition is acold little chaotic than it's been astatine different stores. Our confirmation email says that our console volition vessel by June 4.
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How to pre-order the Nintendo Switch 2 astatine different retailers
Unfortunately, the Switch 2 remains sold retired everyplace other arsenic of this writing. To recap the situation: After a two-week delay, Nintendo yet kicked disconnected Switch 2 pre-orders astatine third-party retailers successful the US and Canada astatine midnight ET connected April 24. A mates of (headache-inducing) hours later, banal astatine Walmart, Target and Best Buy had sold out. GameStop began taking pre-orders aboriginal that greeting but rapidly met the aforesaid fate. Some eagle-eyed buyers were reportedly capable to pre-order done Walmart arsenic precocious arsenic April 26, but things person dried up since.
Other membership-based retailers similar Costco and Sam's Club person Switch 2 listings arsenic well, but we haven't seen thing to suggest they volition judge pre-orders. Newegg besides has a Switch 2 leafage but hasn't provided an enactment to bargain conscionable yet. As for Amazon, we presume the Switch 2 volition yet beryllium disposable there, but it's not today, and there's been nary denotation arsenic to erstwhile that mightiness change. (Even earlier the Switch 2 was unveiled, banal of the archetypal Switch and first-party Switch games had been constricted astatine Amazon US for respective months.)
If you're hopeless to drawback a restock, it's a bully thought to make a escaped relationship with the retailers supra and guarantee each of your shipping and billing info is up to day with each. Downloading each store's mobile app and signing up for notifications whitethorn assistance too, though that could get annoying reasonably quickly.
Pre-order Nintendo Switch 2
Pre-order Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World bundle
*As of 1:15pm ET connected Friday, May 9, Amazon has not listed either Switch 2 console bundle for sale. We volition update this nonfiction with nonstop links if they arrive; until then, we're linking to the site's Nintendo-focused hub.
How to pre-order Switch 2 accessories and games
Naturally, determination are galore accessories and games up for pre-order alongside the Switch 2 itself. While Nintendo hasn't changed the console's terms since delaying its archetypal pre-order date, it has hiked the cost of respective accessories owed to "changes successful marketplace conditions" (read: tariffs). The new Switch 2 camera, for instance, present costs $55 alternatively of its archetypal $50, portion the Switch 2 Pro Controller leapt from $80 to $85. An other acceptable of Joy-Con 2 controllers is up to $95 from $90, and the authoritative Joy-Con Charging Grip costs $40 alternatively of $35.
Most (but not all) of Nintendo's authoritative Switch 2 accessories are inactive up for grabs astatine 1 oregon 2 retailers astatine a minimum, but banal has go spottier since they archetypal went up for sale. Upcoming Switch 2 games similar Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza, meanwhile, stay wide available.
Mario Kart World for $80
Donkey Kong Bananza for $70
Additional Switch 2 games
Samsung microSD Express Card (256GB) for Nintendo Switch 2 for $60
Joy-Con 2 bundle for $95
Switch 2 Pro Controller for $85
Switch 2 Camera for $55
Hori Nintendo Switch 2 Piranha Plant Camera for $60
Joy-Con 2 Charging Grip for $40
Joy-Con 2 Wheels (set of 2) for $25
Switch 2 All-in-One Carrying Case for $85
Switch 2 Carrying Case and Screen Protector for $40
*As of 1:15pm ET connected Friday, May 9, Amazon has not listed immoderate first-party Switch 2 accessories oregon games for sale. (Some third-party devices and games are listed, however.) We'll update this nonfiction with nonstop links if they arrive; until then, we're linking to the site's Nintendo-focused hub.
More Switch 2 details
The Nintendo Switch 2. (Sam Rutherford for Engadget)
We knew from its initial teaser trailer that the Switch 2 would beryllium bigger than its predecessor and instrumentality a caller attack to its detachable Joy-Cons. The Joy-Con 2s, arsenic they're called, present connect magnetically and see a C button, mouse controls and a built-in gyroscope for tilt control. The console itself is so larger, with a 7.9-inch LCD surface that supports a 1080p resolution, a adaptable refresh complaint up to 120Hz and HDR10. The hardware besides has a built-in mic to enactment a caller diagnostic called GameChat that'll fto you pass with friends in-game. (This is what that C fastener is for.) Nintendo says this work volition beryllium escaped to each Switch 2 users until March 31, 2026, astatine which constituent it'll necessitate a Switch Online membership.
When docked, you'll beryllium capable to play up to 4K connected your TV. Nintendo says it's improved the consoles interior speakers arsenic well. The updated dock has a built-in instrumentality to support the console chill and assistance support show during agelong play sessions. Though we won't cognize exactly however much of a powerfulness upgrade the Switch 2 is implicit to the archetypal Switch until it's released, it looks to beryllium reasonably important leap, fixed that it'll person ports of comparatively demanding games similar Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077.
Elsewhere, the Switch 2 has dual USB-C ports for charging, portion the interior retention magnitude has jumped from 32GB to 256GB. That retention is inactive expandable, but the instrumentality volition only work with newer (and much expensive) microSD Express cards. As seen successful the recent 20.0.0 update for the archetypal Switch, the upcoming console volition besides utilize Nintendo's caller Virtual Game Card system for lending digital games crossed systems, arsenic good arsenic a GameShare feature that lets you share prime titles locally with conscionable 1 transcript of a game.
Tariffs and the Nintendo Switch 2
The Nintendo Switch 2's Joy-Con 2 controllers. (Sam Rutherford for Engadget)
During its astir caller Direct presentation astatine the commencement of April, Nintendo showed disconnected much of the Switch 2 than it ever had before. That included the uncover of its archetypal April 9 pre-order date, successful summation to its $450 starting price. Shortly after, President Trump announced sweeping tariffs connected China and different countries, prompting Nintendo to hold pre-orders successful the US and Canada.
In a reversal, President Trump aboriginal announced a 90-day intermission connected steep tariffs affecting 75 countries, but besides announced that the tariff imposed connected China volition spell up adjacent further (right now, it sits astatine 145 percent).
We present cognize that the archetypal $450 terms for the Switch 2 volition stay the aforesaid successful the US and Canada, but based connected its authoritative statement, it appears Nintendo is leaving the doorway unfastened for imaginable aboriginal terms increases.
We besides cognize that Nintendo started moving immoderate of its Switch console manufacturing to Vietnam successful 2019. The accrued tariff for Vietnam was acceptable to beryllium 46 percent, but that's temporarily connected clasp successful favour of a 10 percent tariff that’s successful effect for the 90-day intermission period.
It has been speculated that Nintendo volition boost accumulation of Switch 2 consoles successful Vietnam truthful it tin enactment connected schedule, adjacent if it sells the console astatine a loss successful the abbreviated term. It appears the institution volition person to earnestly ramp up accumulation to support up with Switch 2 demand: According to Nintendo, 2.2 cardinal radical entered the pre-order lottery successful Japan alone, which is acold much devices than it is expected to present successful that portion connected motorboat day. In total, the institution projects it volition sell 15 cardinal Switch 2 units done March 2026.
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