Nintendo Issues Inevitable Switch 2 My Nintendo Store Warning to U.S. Customers, Says Release Date Delivery ‘Not Guaranteed’ Due to ‘Very High Demand’

The inevitable Switch 2 release-day transportation informing from Nintendo to its U.S. fans is yet here, aft the institution said it would conflict to conscionable request successful Japan.

An update connected release-day transportation was published connected Nintendo’s website informing those who’d registered their involvement successful buying a Switch 2 from My Nintendo Store that it could not warrant transportation by the June 5 merchandise date.

As a result, invitation emails whitethorn get after the Switch 2 comes out. However, Nintendo said it volition corroborate your shipping day upon purchase.

“Thank you to those of you who person already registered your involvement successful purchasing from My Nintendo Store,” Nintendo’s connection read.

“We're thrilled by the enthusiasm for Nintendo Switch 2! Due to the precise precocious demand, we volition beryllium moving diligently to fulfill orders arsenic merchandise becomes available, but transportation by June 5 is not guaranteed. Your invitation email whitethorn get aft the Nintendo Switch 2 launch. We'll corroborate your shipping day upon purchase.”

Nintendo is present saying you whitethorn person a amended accidental of getting a Switch 2 astatine motorboat by pre-ordering astatine a third-party retailer — a concerning proposition fixed Switch 2 has already sold retired pursuing pre-orders going unrecorded overnight.

“If you privation to summation your accidental of obtaining a Nintendo Switch 2 strategy astatine launch, delight sojourn our participating retail partners above,” the connection said, pointing to a GameStop nexus (Switch 2 is presently sold retired astatine GameStop).

“If you privation to proceed waiting for your invitation from My Nintendo Store, nary further enactment is required aft registering your interest.”

The conflict fans had to pre-order Switch 2 connected April 24 coupled with this informing from Nintendo suggests the next-gen console volition beryllium precise hard to bargain astatine slightest successful and astir launch.

Earlier this week, Nintendo issued a informing to its customers successful Japan, saying a “significant” fig would miss retired connected pre-ordering a Switch 2 nonstop from the company.

In a connection issued to X / Twitter, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said the institution had seen 2.2 cardinal radical successful Japan unsocial use for a pre-order of the Switch 2 from the My Nintendo Store. This “extremely ample fig of applications… acold exceeds our expectations, and acold exceeds the fig of Nintendo Switch 2 consoles that tin beryllium delivered from the My Nintendo Store connected June 5,” Furukawa explained.

According to a FAQ posted to Nintendo’s website, the archetypal batch of invitations volition spell retired starting May 8, 2025 for the My Nintendo Store successful the U.S. Additional batches of invitation emails volition past beryllium sent “periodically” until purchasing connected My Nintendo Store is opened to everyone.

Initial invitation emails volition beryllium delivered connected a first-come, first-serve ground to “eligible registrants who conscionable the precedence criteria.” Invitees volition person 72 hours from the clip erstwhile the email is sent to implicit their purchase.

Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order invitation precedence requirements:

• you indispensable person been the 1 who purchased immoderate Nintendo Switch Online membership
• you indispensable person had immoderate paid Nintendo Switch Online rank for a minimum of 12 months, and
• you indispensable person opted successful to stock gameplay information and person astatine slightest 50 hours full gameplay hours.

Last week, Nintendo announced that Switch 2 pre-orders would statesman successful the U.S. connected April 24, 2025, and that the archetypal terms of $449.99 and motorboat day of June 5 would stay the same. Alongside the basal console terms remaining the same, Nintendo confirmed the Switch 2 + Mario Kart World bundle would stay astatine $499.99 and pricing for some the carnal and integer versions of Mario Kart World ($79.99) and Donkey Kong Bananza ($69.99) would not alteration astatine launch. But Nintendo raised the terms of Switch 2 accessories amid the ongoing tariff turmoil.

Nintendo had primitively planned connected opening pre-orders for Switch 2 connected April 9, but it made the determination to hold them arsenic it needed clip to "assess the imaginable interaction of tariffs and evolving marketplace conditions."

If you're looking to pre-order a Nintendo Switch 2, GameCube controller, oregon different accessories and games, marque definite to support an oculus connected our Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order guide, which volition enactment updated with quality and info. You tin besides find retired much astir however to summation your chances of getting a caller Nintendo Switch 2 console connected time one.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].