...and US shoppers are out of luck
In the US, fans would have been excitedly looking forward to Switch 2 pre-orders beginning at all retailers on April 9 but then came the news on Friday that Nintendo was delaying all US pre-orders amid the recent tariff uncertainty.
As a result, all US retailers have not gone live with stock at all, and have changed messaging to 'coming soon' or similar. The pages are all worth keeping an eye on but we don't expect to see any US action anytime soon.
As a result, we're all about the UK stock situation...
The current state of affairs
So, where do we sit now?
For those in the UK, as soon as the presentation last week finished Switch 2 pre-orders started appearing without warning. Some folks were able to take advantage and throughout the rest of that first day, there were flutterings of stock here and there.
As of right now, however, no retailer has any stock, however, but it is clear that UK Switch 2 pre-orders are officially, definitely, very much open and out in the wild. Now it's a matter of hoping and looking and refreshing for stock at all the retailers, and trying to use a bit of nouse to predict when we might see more.
As for the US, however, things are, well, quite different...
Hello!
Hello and welcome to our live rolling coverage of the Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order situation!
The team and I will be doing our darndest to provide you with all the latest updates on stock in the UK - where pre-orders are open but inventory is hard to come by - as well as any news on the delayed US pre-orders.
Let's get stuck in!
