Following Nintendo's presentation in Japan and a couple of hands-on press events around the world, the Nintendo Switch pre-orders have sold out in many territories. They only opened late last week and while Nintendo still claims that there won't be stock issues around launch, finding one to buy now at its $300 launch price is not proving easy.
Retailers like Amazon (both .com and .co.uk), as well as Best Bey and Walmart are all listing as out of stock of the upcoming Nintendo console. Gamestop too has announced that it has run out of its entire stock of the new-gen system (as per VG247).
It has pledged to get more units before the console launches, so that it will have some stock on day one, but there don't appear to be any guarantees in place. It is still waiting on Nintendo to give it the heads up in that respect.
There is still stock in some territories, like Australia, so it could be that some stock is shifted around if needed, but Nintendo does still have two months to get its shipping in order and make sure it has a decent number of systems for people to buy.
Nintendo recently stated that it estimates launch sales to be around the two million mark for the first month. If true, that would put the Switch on solid footing, considering in the four+ years since the release of the Nintendo Wii U, it has sold less than 15 million of them.
However stock issues with the recent release of the NES Classic Mini doesn't give people confidence for the Switch's launch. Do you think Nintendo can get its stock problems in order?
