Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order details leaked but there’s confusion over the date

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’s only one thing publishers are interested in: pre-orders. The lack of them, in the immediate aftermath of the Xbox One’s reveal, put Microsoft into a tailspin they still haven’t got out of, and similar problems have rushed many other companies to panic stations, if a game doesn’t seem to be immediately attracting customers. That’s very unlikely to be a problem for the Nintendo Switch 2 but the question of when pre-orders will start is a very important question, and it certainly wasn’t addressed in Thursday’s Nintendo Direct. Although it may be announced at the Switch 2 focused one next week. It’s very likely the new console’s release date will be announced at the Switch 2 Direct, reasonably likely the price will be, but it’s probably no more than 50/50 when it comes to pre-orders. And the situation hasn’t really been clarified by a leak from Best Buy in Canada. 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. How to pre-order the Nintendo Switch 2 That all seemed perfectly believable and the fact that Best Buy quickly took the blog page down, when they realised they’d jumped the gun/got an angry call from Nintendo, seemed to seal the deal. However, respected insider Wario64 says that one of his retail sources claims the April 2 is ‘an error’. Although they don’t indicate when the real date is. 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’s still uncertain when exactly that will be. The most common rumour for the Nintendo Switch’s release date is sometime in or around June, so if that’s correct then even if pre-orders don’t start on April 2, it won’t be too much after that. Did Best Buy get the date wrong? (Best Buy) Email [email protected], leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader’s Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page.