{"id":2770,"date":"2025-03-27T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2025-03-27T18:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:21:13","slug":"nintendo-switch-2-pre-order-details-leaked-but-theres-confusion-over-the-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/nintendo-switch-2-pre-order-details-leaked-but-theres-confusion-over-the-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order details leaked but there\u2019s confusion over the date"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Best Buy are not in Nintendo’s best books (Nintendo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A leak that seemed to reveal when pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> will start may not be as reliable as it first seemed.<\/p>\n

When a new game or console is announced there\u2019s only one thing publishers are interested in: pre-orders. The lack of them, in the immediate aftermath of the Xbox<\/a> One\u2019s reveal, put Microsoft<\/a> into a tailspin they still haven\u2019t got out of, and similar problems have rushed many other companies to panic stations, if a game doesn\u2019t seem to be immediately attracting customers.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s very unlikely to be a problem for the Nintendo<\/a> Switch 2 but the question of when pre-orders will start is a very important question, and it certainly wasn\u2019t addressed in Thursday\u2019s Nintendo Direct<\/a>. Although it may be announced at the Switch 2 focused one next week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very likely the new console\u2019s release date will be announced at the Switch 2 Direct, reasonably likely the price will be, but it\u2019s probably no more than 50\/50 when it comes to pre-orders. And the situation hasn\u2019t really been clarified by a leak from Best Buy in Canada.<\/p>\n

When it comes to consoles, sometimes it takes a few days, or even weeks, for a company to start offering pre-orders but Best Buy accidentally put up a detailed blog stating that pre-orders will open on April 2, i.e. the day of the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct.<\/p>\n

How to pre-order the Nintendo Switch 2<\/h2>\n

That all seemed perfectly believable and the fact that Best Buy quickly took the blog page down, when they realised they\u2019d jumped the gun\/got an angry call from Nintendo, seemed to seal the deal.<\/p>\n

However, respected insider Wario64<\/a> says that one of his retail sources claims the April 2 is \u2018an error\u2019. Although they don\u2019t indicate when the real date is.<\/p>\n

Pre-orders are likely to go up at the same time around the world, at least in major markets such as Canada and the UK, but despite this leak it\u2019s still uncertain when exactly that will be.<\/p>\n

The most common rumour for the Nintendo Switch\u2019s release date is sometime in or around June, so if that\u2019s correct then even if pre-orders don\u2019t start on April 2, it won\u2019t be too much after that.<\/p>\n

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Did Best Buy get the date wrong? (Best Buy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Best Buy are not in Nintendo’s best books (Nintendo) A leak that seemed to reveal when pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 will start may not be as reliable as it first seemed. When a new game or console is announced there\u2019s only one thing publishers are interested in: pre-orders. The lack of them, in the immediate aftermath of the Xbox One\u2019s reveal, put Microsoft into a tailspin they still haven\u2019t got out of, and similar problems have rushed many … Continue reading “Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order details leaked but there\u2019s confusion over the date”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}