{"id":49916,"date":"2025-04-25T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/49916\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:20:12","slug":"random-masahiro-sakurai-finds-success-in-switch-2-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/49916\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Masahiro Sakurai Finds Success In Switch 2 Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sakurai<\/a>Image: Nintendo Life<\/p>\n

If you’ve entered the lottery to get a Switch 2 in Japan, then you may well be hearing back from Nintendo relatively soon. Many have been receiving emails from Nintendo to confirm that they’ve been successful in securing a Switch 2 pre-order over the past day, with one of the successes coming from none other than Smash and Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai.<\/p>\n

Highlighted to us by friend of the site and NL contributor Andrew J. Rue, Sakurai tweeted<\/a> just under three weeks ago that he’d entered the lottery to try and get a new console on launch day, 5th June 2025. And in a follow-up yesterday<\/a>, he confirmed that he was one of the winners.<\/p>\n

Sakurai’s surprise is evident on social media, as translated by Rue:<\/p>\n

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“I-I-I\u2026I what\u2026? I won the lottery!!”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u3068\uff64\u3068\uff64\u3068\u2026\u2026
\u3068?<\/p>\n

\u5f53\u9078\u3067\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3059!!#Switch2<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ynoh2TWj1r<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 \u685c\u4e95 \u653f\u535a \/ Masahiro Sakurai (@Sora_Sakurai) April 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rue pointed out to us that Sakurai’s success likely comes from the fact that he’s pre-ordered the multi-language system, which is the more expensive version of the console in Japan, costing 69,980 yen. There is a cheaper Switch 2 available for 49,980 yen, but this is a Japanese language-only system.<\/p>\n

Yes, despite being the director of one of the big Nintendo Switch 2 exclusives in Kirby Air Riders<\/a>, Sakurai has had to join the rest of us in lining up for the new console. No perks there! Although he likely has a dev kit somewhere…<\/p>\n

Anyway, congrats to those of you who’ve managed to secure a lottery win in Japan! There’s been a bit of chaos surrounding the system over the past 48 hours, with Nintendo warning fans about phishing emails<\/a> and the My Nintendo Store going down as the lottery opened<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[source x.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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\"Alana<\/p>\n

Alana has been with Nintendo Life since 2022, and while RPGs are her first love, Nintendo is a close second. She enjoys nothing more than overthinking battle strategies, characters, and stories. She also wishes she was a Sega air pirate.<\/p>\n