Nintendo of America Boss Doug Bowser Insists Nintendo Will Have Enough Switch 2 Units to Meet Demand in the U.S.

How hard volition it beryllium to get a Nintendo Switch 2 successful the U.S. astatine motorboat and during the remainder of 2025? According to Nintendo of America brag Doug Bowser, the institution believes it volition person capable units to conscionable user request "through the holidays."

Speaking to IGN successful an interrogation to sermon the opening of the Nintendo San Francisco store, Bowser said that portion it’s seen a “strong” affirmative absorption to Switch 2, it has a program to person a “continuous travel of product” for 2025. Switch 2 launches connected June 5.

“[Nintendo President] Mr. [Shuntaro] Furukawa past week announced that we'll person 15 cardinal units successful our forecast for Nintendo Switch 2 and 4.5 cardinal units for Nintendo Switch during the fiscal year,” Bowser said.

“That forecast was truly driven by wanting to match, if you will, what we accomplished with Nintendo Switch successful the archetypal 10 months of its release. As we look astatine our plans present successful the U.S., we bash judge we'll person accumulation and proviso that volition let america to conscionable user demand. We cognize there's been beardown affirmative absorption to Nintendo Switch 2 aboriginal connected and we've seen that done our preorders, but we bash person a program to person a continuous travel of merchandise that'll beryllium disposable done the holidays.”

That’s bully quality for anyone hoping to get a Switch 2 successful the U.S. this year. It’s just to accidental preorders for the console person been rough. After a hold owed to tariffs, Nintendo Switch 2 preorders went unrecorded connected April 24 with the terms of the console inactive fixed astatine $449.99 — and they went astir arsenic good arsenic you'd expect. Meanwhile, Nintendo has issued a informing to U.S. customers who applied for a Switch 2 pre-order from the My Nintendo Store, saying merchandise day transportation is not guaranteed owed to precise precocious demand.

Bowser’s latest comments, though, suggest those who person enactment their sanction down for a Switch 2 volition get one. Check retired IGN's Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order usher for more.

Meanwhile, there’s been each sorts of interest astir tariffs and whether Nintendo whitethorn beryllium forced to rise the terms of the Switch 2 and its games successful response. We asked Bowser to what grade helium could perpetrate to Switch 2's $450 terms tag for some motorboat and beyond?

Responding, Bowser kept things vague, but did suggest Nintendo had “made a commitment” by announcing the Switch 2 astatine $450 and the Switch 2 with Mario Kart World bundle astatine $500.

“Well, we made a committedness by announcing the pricing of some the azygous SKU astatine $449 and past the bundled SKU with Mario Kart World astatine $499,” Bowser said.

“And we truly thought it was important that we established that terms point, adjacent aft further tariffs were announced, to springiness consumers that comfortableness that they would beryllium capable to acquisition astatine that terms point. Obviously, it's inactive a precise fluid concern and it's hard to find what whitethorn beryllium happening successful the upcoming months oregon weeks. But our committedness is to find ways wrong existing marketplace conditions oregon changing marketplace conditions to marque our products, including Nintendo Switch 2 hardware, arsenic obtainable arsenic we perchance can.”

Check retired IGN’s interrogation with Doug Bowser successful afloat for much connected the Nintendo San Francisco store and the Switch 2.

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].