Nintendo Switch 2 Preorders

[Felly]

Anyone try to get one last night? What was your experience like? Did you get one or were you unlucky?

I actually forgot about preorders until I saw notifications on my phone about it while I was at work. Forgot again until a friend messaged me on Discord and reminded me. I ended up hopping in the virtual queue on Best Buy around 12:40am, decided to hop in the Walmart virtual queue shortly after, both lines for the Switch 2 + Mario Kart World bundle. During all this, I could've probably secured one with Target, but ultimately decided not to since it'd have to be shipped to me and I didn't want to risk it being stolen if no one was home to retrieve the package when it arrived. Best Buy's line booted me out around 1:14am even though I hadn't touched anything, so I hopped back in line. Walmart took me to the page to preorder shortly after that, but it wouldn't let me add it to the cart, and by the time I was able to, it was out of stock. While I was fighting with Walmart to let me put it in my cart, I decided, on a whim, to just enter the virtual queue on Best Buy through the app on my phone because I'd seen on Reddit that it seemed to be working for people. Got up to give Walmart's site a break from refreshing and trying to add the item to my cart, grabbed my phone, logged into the Best Buy app and entered the virtual queue, stepped away from my computer for a couple minutes and took my phone with me, and came back to try Walmart again to find out it was out. Best Buy sent me to log in and took me to the page to preorder (after making me change my password), and I was surprisingly able to secure a preorder around 1:50am. The queue on my computer still had me in line till I refreshed the page after securing the preorder on my phone.

Whole process was kinda wild but fun. I wasn't hard set on getting a preorder because I knew I could get one eventually if I waited and was patient, but I figured I'd go through the process for fun. I figured if I didn't get one through Walmart or Best Buy with the virtual queues, I was going to try GameStop first thing when they opened in the afternoon, and if that didn't work out, I'd just wait to get one and just get a PS5 as a birthday present to myself instead of the Switch 2. Guess it was just early birthday luck that it happened to work out in my favor lol.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I didn't have the money to get one and I also had to be up at 2 in the morning for work so sadly I didn't get a preorder. I want to try and get a Switch 2 this year however! I want to get the Mario Kart bundle.

 

[The Cat Lady]

I plan on getting a Switch 2, however, I usually wait till it's been out for a little bit (at least) before I get a new console and I usually do this for 2 reasons.

One, I want to make sure that they will produce enough games for that console to warrant me getting one. I don't want to spend all that money on a console and only be able to play a game or two. I want enough games to justify the price.

Two, while I'm checking to see that that they have enough games, I'm making sure that they get any bugs or kinks worked out of them first before getting one.

 

[Felly]

I plan on getting a Switch 2, however, I usually wait till it's been out for a little bit (at least) before I get a new console and I usually do this for 2 reasons.

One, I want to make sure that they will produce enough games for that console to warrant me getting one. I don't want to spend all that money on a console and only be able to play a game or two. I want enough games to justify the price.

Two, while I'm checking to see that that they have enough games, I'm making sure that they get any bugs or kinks worked out of them first before getting one.

I dunno if you're a Switch owner currently, but the Switch 2 is actually backwards compatible with (most) Switch games! Some of the games have upgrade packs to allow for more features with the Switch 2, but don't appear to be necessary to purchase to play them on the newer system. Doesn't seem like there's too many Switch 2 exclusive titles right off the bat though, which was one of my considerations in getting one at launch. I've been considering upgrading from my Switch Lite anyways, so this has been my excuse to do so.

The bugs makes sense too! Hopefully there's no major bugs at launch and just small, day 1 patches, but I can definitely understand waiting. I told myself if I didn't get a preorder that I'd just wait to get one, maybe around the holidays, and probably would've considered purchasing a PS5 instead.

 

[The Cat Lady]

I dunno if you're a Switch owner currently, but the Switch 2 is actually backwards compatible with (most) Switch games! Some of the games have upgrade packs to allow for more features with the Switch 2, but don't appear to be necessary to purchase to play them on the newer system. Doesn't seem like there's too many Switch 2 exclusive titles right off the bat though, which was one of my considerations in getting one at launch. I've been considering upgrading from my Switch Lite anyways, so this has been my excuse to do so.

The bugs makes sense too! Hopefully there's no major bugs at launch and just small, day 1 patches, but I can definitely understand waiting. I told myself if I didn't get a preorder that I'd just wait to get one, maybe around the holidays, and probably would've considered purchasing a PS5 instead.

That was one of my questions......was the Switch 2 going to be backwards compatible? But I'm still interested in seeing what they'll make for the Switch 2 anyway. They may not do a whole lot at first but there will be some titles eventually at some point (or I would assume, anyway).