{"id":92223,"date":"2025-07-25T19:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/92223\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T19:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:59:13","slug":"you-can-now-easily-buy-a-switch-2-without-jumping-through-hoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/92223\/","title":{"rendered":"You can now easily buy a Switch 2 without jumping through hoops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps we\u2019ve been thinking the same thing, you and I. That there won\u2019t be a long-standing drought of Nintendo Switch 2 availability after all. The console has been easy to buy online from several retailers this week, including Best Buy<\/a>, Target<\/a>, and Walmart<\/a>. Amazon<\/a>, which didn\u2019t sell the Switch 2 at launch, is currently selling it by invitation only.<\/p>\n

The console\u2019s messy preorder process<\/a> and spotty launch availability made it feel a little like late 2020 all over again, when the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Nvidia RTX 30-series GPUs launched in extremely limited quantities due to component shortages. However, Nintendo appears to have adjusted the right dials to boost production quickly enough to meet US demand. The company reportedly delayed the Switch 2\u2019s planned late-2024 launch to build up stock, according to Nikkei<\/a> (translated by VGC<\/a>). If that\u2019s true, that decision seems to have paid off for customers.<\/p>\n

The increased flow of consoles seemed to coincide with the launch of Donkey Kong Bananza<\/a>, Nintendo\u2019s latest Switch 2 exclusive. By then, the Switch 2 had already set sales records, becoming the fastest selling game hardware in US history, according to details from marketing firm Circana<\/a>. Nintendo sold 1.6 million units<\/a> within its first month in the US alone (it sold a record 3.5 million consoles<\/a> globally in its first four days). That\u2019s impressive, considering how much skepticism there was about whether its high $449.99 price<\/a> ($499.99 if you want a bundle with Mario Kart World) would turn away would-be buyers.<\/p>\n

If stock were still tough to come by, we\u2019d be anticipating some kind of update on the matter during Nintendo\u2019s upcoming August 1st earning\u2019s call<\/a>. But, thankfully, people across the country can now just buy one online without stressing about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perhaps we\u2019ve been thinking the same thing, you and I. That there won\u2019t be a long-standing drought of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[529,171,393,394,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-92223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gaming","11":"tag-nintendo","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114915650351164452","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}