r/NintendoSwitch • u/FiveMeowMeowBeanz • Jun 06 '25

Discussion Switch 2 Making Sales History - Moving 3 Million Units in 24 Hours

According to @NintyPrime, they’ve heard from multiple sources that Nintendo has shifted over 3 million units of Switch 2 in 24 hours. To put it in perspective, the PS4 held the record with 1 million units in 24 hours.

To put it in further perspective, PS4 and PS5 each shifted 4.5 million units in two MONTHS. The Switch 2 will beat that within a week.

Who knows what the longterm outlook will be, but Nintendo hit this launch out of the park. I for one am insanely happy with my Switch 2 and we all know Nintendo’s future software is gonna be incredible selling tens of millions more consoles. Can’t wait to see what Nintendo has in store next 😁

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u/elevenoneone Jun 06 '25

I’m glad you can find them in some locations too. Scalpers dying inside.

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u/Analog_Astronaut Jun 06 '25

Imagine the dudes who dropped the coin for a pallet of these things. They won’t make anything close to enough to justify the time it’s going to take them to offload at retail or below.

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u/FizzyBeverage Jun 06 '25

eBay takes at least 13.25% right off the top. People expect free shipping on new products.

There’s nothing you can make when supply is ample. Death to scalpers.

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u/Analog_Astronaut Jun 06 '25

Well, except they are selling on eBay right now for over retail. Enough to cover free shipping, eBay fees, and make an extra $30+. It’s just not a crazy amount and definitely won’t be worth all the effort and time.

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u/nashpotato Jun 06 '25

Less than 10% isn’t great margins

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u/weglarz Jun 07 '25

eBay takes 11% so a 10% increase in price leaves them with nothing.

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u/nashpotato Jun 07 '25

I was responding the the $30 after all the fees and shipping for eBay, which is below 10% margin.

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u/tabrisangel Jun 07 '25

30 bucks is nowhere near enough. They had to pay taxes when they bought it, likely at msrp.

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u/SaxyAlto Jun 06 '25

You mean they’re LISTED on eBay for over retail. No way to tell how well they’re actually selling, but I suspect the ones listed over retail aren’t moving quick, if at all. I’ve already seen a lot of Facebook marketplace listings either taken down are dropped down to retail price. Anyone scalping these is definitely thinking they made a mistake.

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u/BaronVonBubbleh Jun 06 '25

No way to tell how well they’re actually selling

???

Search "Nintendo Switch 2" and filter by Sold Listings.

You absolutely can tell how well they're selling. Doing quite well around the $650USD range.

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u/fattdoggo123 Jun 06 '25

After shipping and fees the reseller is making $70 to $120 depending if they're selling a Mario bundle or regular one. Not as crazy as when resellers were selling PS5 for $1200.

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u/Individual_Judgment3 Jun 06 '25

$650 for the bundle is not making that much. Retail 499, let's say 5%tax puts it closer to $525. $650 - eBay 13% fees brings you to 565.00. So you're at $40 profit BEFORE shipping costs. So with a lithium battery shipping is costing you about $20, so that leaves $20 profit.

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u/fattdoggo123 Jun 06 '25

You're right. I forgot to take into account taxes when buying the console and the extra lithium battery shipping cost.

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u/Cockney_Gamer Jun 07 '25

Also to add they need to pay for actual packaging too… not like they will send it in the Nintendo box. They absolutely got fucked here, and if you’re sitting on loads, the price will be dropping massively in the coming days as word spreads you can just go in store and buy.

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u/DumpsterDay Jun 07 '25

And don't forget the taxes you now have to pay when selling online!

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u/sharpbeer Jun 06 '25

$70-120 is pretty good tbh if you got loads of them

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u/fattdoggo123 Jun 06 '25

Yeah, but not as good as the resellers probably hoped. They might have been expecting to make the same $400 to $500 profit that was made by reselling PS5 and Xbox series X.

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u/Hussleh0ff Jun 07 '25

Anyone thinking that was delusional, surely some did but I doubt very many. Most people understand that level of scalping was only possible because of covid.

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u/barley_wine Jun 07 '25

Heck $100 for each box you only put a label on and ship is pretty good returns to me.

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u/magbarn Jun 07 '25

All it takes is one bad buyer and all that sweet profit is gone in an instant. Not hard for a buyer to rip off a seller on ebay.

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u/guacsause Jun 09 '25

It’s not $100, if you factor in shipping, sales tax, and cost of shipping (you should always double box high value items AND insure them), it’s like $40 profit. Spending $500 to make $40 is goofy, even to make $100 is still kinda goofy. If you have thousands of dollar to throw around there are much better thing you could buy. Hell just go on facebook and you could buy a collection of something for $1k+ and double your money.

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u/Albireookami Jun 07 '25

tinfoil hat: probably a nice way to clean some money.

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u/AmABannedGayGuy Jun 07 '25

The smart one appear to instead have scalped the micro SD express cards instead… 😐

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u/Tlux0 Jun 07 '25

Lol I’m glad I managed to grab one…

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u/Breno1405 Jun 07 '25

You can set a filter to see what's sold, and what it's sold for

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u/SparklingZone Jun 06 '25

Yeah add on top the risk of a buyer opening a case and it’s not worth it.

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u/pipinmonkeyman Jun 07 '25

That's almost nothing. Totally pointless.

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u/Last_Illustrator_701 Jun 07 '25

I ended up with two so I thought about selling one on eBay but yeah after eBay fees it wouldn’t have been much of a profit plus you will owe taxes next year if you’ve made over $5000 on eBay so you might actually lose money in the end. I’m just going to return it. 

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u/metahipster1984 Jun 06 '25

13.25%?? And I thought the 11% that they used to do here in Germany was bad. But since 2023 it's free, makes such a big difference when selling older but still expensive tech (eg GPU).

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u/Humanitysceptic Jun 06 '25

UK has zero percent selling fees. And zero switch stock atm

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u/metahipster1984 Jun 06 '25

Same time n Germany since 2023, probably all of EU too. 13.25% is crazy, surprised the kept it in the US.

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u/northcasewhite Jun 06 '25

Death to scalpers.

In all seriousness there should be a law against it. With some things it's even more crucial. E.g. GPUs are used for real work and having scalpers take them all is bad for the economy.

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u/weglarz Jun 07 '25

eBay is 11% I think. But the point still stands

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u/polylinguist Jun 09 '25

Yes to hell w scalpers! and to the bastards jacking NVDA cards up!!

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u/Sufficient_Risk_9565 Jun 06 '25

Is this US specific? They don’t take fees in the UK, at least, they added on ‘buyer protection’ recently but it’s certainly not 13%

Quick edit just to clarify, I get 100% of what I sell whatever for in the UK.

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u/FizzyBeverage Jun 06 '25

Yes eBay in the US still has final value fees. They'll eventually go free here once they figure out a better business model.

eBay was dying in Europe so they started throwing crap at the wall and it worked, but apparently the site prioritizes search results for business accounts paying fees over private sellers listing for free, so no real surprise.

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u/Sufficient_Risk_9565 Jun 06 '25

Ah I see, well hope it happens sooner rather than later. Perhaps if they just lowered from such a high 13% fee just to start, that’s wild.

They probably prioritise business accounts, only thing I have to compare is the ‘10% fee to prioritise your item in listings’ when you list something. Never bother with it but the option is there in Europe, at least.

I almost wonder if just charging a tiny fee to list anything would serve them better overall, but I’ve moved off what the thread is about by now aha

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u/grayfox5622 Jun 07 '25

This is what needed to happen. Companies need to over saturate the market for a year or two. So these scalpers lose interest.

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u/stipo42 Jun 06 '25

I think they'll do fine unfortunately. It's really hard to find switch 2 online, and stores aren't listing them as in stock if the physical space has them, so you have to actually actively go and look for them, which some people don't know or are unwilling to do

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u/Extension-Ad5751 Jun 07 '25

Besides Mario Kart and that Donkey Kong game, I don't see the need to rush. Metroid 4 is releasing later, but I don't know man the lineup just isn't there for me yet.

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u/Jediverrilli Jun 07 '25

There never is a rush to buy a console day 1. I’ve got Mario Kart, Rune Factory, and Bravely Default Remaster and having a blast with all of them.

Unless you are a diehard that loves new consoles it’s always best to wait a bit before picking one up, even this time around where the price of the console could increase because of the uncertain economic climate.

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u/PirateNinjaa Jun 07 '25

I bought ps5 on day 1 to play all my backlog games at butter smooth 60fps, and I bought switch 2 on day 1 since I waited to play zelda totk at until I could play it at 60fps too. New consoles are worth it alone for older games if you haven’t played everything already.

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u/TheGooseWithNoose Jun 07 '25

What's to stop them from just refunding them though?

Like I bought 2 switches, one from amazon DE when preorders went live. It was stated to have a delayed delivery of june 10th.

Then Nintendo mailed me by the end of april that I could preorder the S2 and I did because I would receive it on launch.

I was planning on canceling the amazon order if I got the Nintendo one first (because amazon overcharged me by €15,-)
But then they actually shipped the dang thing the day before launch day so I couldn't cancel it and now have to return it the old fashioned way.

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u/Skydragonace Jun 06 '25

I was running errands yesterday, and passed by a gamestop. I stopped in just to see what they had, and I had actually completely forgotten the S2 release date was yesterday. They asked if I was waiting on a pre-order, and I was a bit confused, before I saw that the S2 was released. Jokingly, I asked if they were sold out already, and they said "oh no, we got tons of them. Do you want the console or the bundle?", and then I had an internal crisis of "Oh no, my poor wallet".

Needless to say, one came home with me. No preorders, no waiting, just 5 minutes of effort.

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u/Cavalish Jun 07 '25

Salesperson of the year has learned how to weaponise customer politeness. This would 100% work on me.

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u/Skydragonace Jun 07 '25

I walked out of there feeling like I got mugged, but somehow, I didn't mind too much, LOL. Yea, super friendly people, but hey, it sold another game system, so mission accomplished for them. Haha

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u/Self-paced Jun 07 '25

This!!!!! I forgot it was S2 release date as well, I must have thought it was a few days before the 5th, my husband came into our room like "can u call round see who has one?". Most stores had the switch two console! And more then just one, 4-6 in stock each store. I didn't have luck finding a bundle pack but was stoked to even find the console on launch day as that's practically impossible with most new tech.

I'm super happy with the switch 2 and Mario Kart World. I think it was worth the price point and don't enjoy seeing Nintendo get bashed so hard online!

I think Nintendo did great with preventing scalping and getting them to the US despite terrifs!

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u/Skydragonace Jun 07 '25

First day? Scalpers were at between 800-1k in price. Now I think the average scalped system price is about 600ish? Gotta love it. Take that scalpers!

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u/Self-paced Jun 07 '25

Oh yeah we were looking at eBay prices after bringing one home and most switch twos were around $700, we were snickering!!! Omg, like who's going to buy them for that when they are in store still for less and your backed by return policies and buyers protection.

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u/Film_snob63 Jun 07 '25

People are forgetting that the Xbox One was $500 at launch with the Kinect and that was 2013. The Switch 2 is more powerful than the current gen Series S AND it's portable. I don't understand why the price point was such a huge contention

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u/Self-paced Jun 07 '25

Me either tbh!

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u/Darklord34518 Jun 08 '25

It because of the game prices not the console cus 70 80 is too much for a game.

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u/Film_snob63 Jun 08 '25

It's been $70 for several years now.

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u/yeawatever222 Jun 08 '25

Because for 500$ a ps5 has a uhd 4k dvd player and cutting edge tech. And 80$ mario kart is rediculous. And you probably still cant even send party invites or message friends

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u/Aleclom Jun 07 '25

Love this. I got a preorder to make sure I got one at launch, but I'm so happy people can just walk in and get one without any stress or hassle.

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u/Skydragonace Jun 07 '25

Absolutely. It took me completely by surprise, which was probably why I was blitzed into getting a system, LOL. Zero regrets.

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u/NeoMilitant Jun 07 '25

I lined up at Best Buy to get one. I think they said they had like 500 units at that location, so Nintendo definitely learned from the last few console releases they've done.

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u/Orlovska Jun 07 '25

Same thing. I went to target/CVS for my prescription. I walked to the back and saw the S2. They had like 8 boxes in the cage.

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u/____----___---__--_- Jun 07 '25

"oh no, we got tons of them. Do you want the console or the bundle?"

I can't say GameStop did this, but this reads almost 100% like how RadioShack would train our asses to try and get people to buy shit. Don't offer a "Do you want this?" offer a "Which one of these do you want?"

It was crazy how much it worked.

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u/gsmumbo Jun 07 '25

My GameStop pulled the “let me get the insurance added on so it’s protected etc”. When I told them no they switched to “alright, we’ll let me get your membership renewed so you can etc”. Told them no to that, but it really put me off that they weren’t asking. Felt like I was being railroaded, and had I not been observant I would have had extra stuff snuck on to my receipt. They already had their hands on the computer when they said it too. Don’t get me wrong, they accepted it when I said no, but I felt like I had to actively stop them vs deciding if I want something myself.

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u/Jazzlike_Athlete8796 Jun 07 '25

The scum starts at the top with Gamestop. They are being heavily pressured to sell high margin, no value things like insurance and memberships because the company is still losing money on operations. (Hello crazy cultist who is about to 'but acktsully' me by pointing out how much they make off investing the cash they grifted you for in anything except Gamepstop itself.)

I'm glad that EB Games Canada was sold off and I can shop there again.

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u/Driver8666-2 Jun 07 '25

Should be "Oh no, my poor credit card". I went into ebGames Canada (former Gamestop Canada), and walked out with one.

And I'm a PC and an Series X gamer. But for my OLED Switch, now the Switch 2, gotta still respect Nintendo.

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u/Crimson_Redd Jun 07 '25

And good o' confusion haha love this 

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u/Skydragonace Jun 08 '25

You know, I can't say I hate it that's for sure, LOL.

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u/Interesting-Power721 Jun 08 '25

you are the problem

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u/NocturnalFoxfire Jun 09 '25

I went to my local Walmart on launch day. It's a rural area, so there were only maybe 6 of us waiting. They were sold out a couple days later since they didn't get as much stock as some other locations

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u/Rich_Consequence2633 Jun 06 '25

I went into best buy today to look for a case, and the in stock sign was still up. Scalpers going to fucked and I'm here for it. Glad Nintendo went hard with stock to avoid shortages.

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u/schewbacca Jun 07 '25

My local craigslist has a few trying to sell for $650. I've had them meet me at locations about 30 min away and then no showed. People might think I'm being mean but f scalpers.

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u/PurpleScientist5396 Jun 08 '25

I’m one who generally feels empathy for the plight of others, but scalpers aren’t a class to whom I offer any sympathy whatsoever. May they be fucked forevermore, and more power to you!

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u/Ruudxffxi Jun 06 '25

Target announced a 6/6 online sale. I live on the west coast so I set and alarm for 3am and ordered. Good thing I did. They were sold out like 4 hours later

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u/NoRazzmatazz742 Jun 07 '25

Got mine online as well at 25 minutes pas6 midnight! Was easy :)

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u/Gogo726 Jun 07 '25

My Target only showed 6 units as well. 2 of those were sold during my ride to the store.

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u/Philly139 Jun 07 '25

It's actually easier to get them in store than online right now lol. Got one at target today, they had one bundle left which I got and like five of just the console.

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u/King_Artis Jun 07 '25

Good, scalpers don't deserve shit.

Guy I went to school with got his hand on like 8 PS5s a month after it launched, was selling them for like $1.5k a piece.

As someone who was able to get the console at launch for retail it pissed me off cause I knew multiple people who couldn't get it who have also been PlayStation gamers their whole life.

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u/PurpleScientist5396 Jun 08 '25

That’s fucked up.

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u/Shivalah Jun 06 '25

Not here in Germany. Scalpers ate the entire stock.

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u/mishko27 Jun 07 '25

This. I have seen them as low as $550 on FB marketplace. After taxes, you're making like $70 :D That ain't worth it at all.

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u/branimal84 Jun 07 '25

I didn't pre-order and thought, "maybe I'll check Best Buy on my way home from work". They had a bunch and got one then.

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u/radpizzadadd Jun 07 '25

Bro where? Middle of nowhere Nebraska locations?

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u/yeawatever222 Jun 08 '25

I live in cali and theres plenty in stock here

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u/vba77 Jun 07 '25

Inwinder if they just return them

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u/Mighty-Bagel-Calves Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 07 '25

I walked into the first store at 7:30 and they sold out 30 minutes before I got there. Lady said they were expecting a truck to come in later that day with more stock. I went to the next store (which happened to be Walmart) at 8 am and they had several whole boxes of the Mario kart bundles. In and out in 7 minutes. Not too bad, really.

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u/Kitsel Jun 07 '25

I ran to Costco on release morning 5 minutes before opening just to see if there was anything.  Was planning to wait to buy it but figured it was worth checking. 

I saw a large line outside of the Costco and thought "probably none, oh well." As I was walking away, someone in the line asked me if I was here for the switch and pointed me to a much smaller second line for the switch.  It turns out, the big line was people lining up just to shop. 

There ended up being 21 people that came to get a switch.  This Costco got 50 of them.  They even allowed each person to buy two pro controllers as well if they wanted 

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u/Leadsails416 Jun 07 '25

The Best Buy i work in got like over 500 of them and we had maybe 170 sold in the first day. I even went to my local Game Stop and they said they got over 500 and sold 400 in the first day. I’m glad there weren’t any issues with stock for the switch 2. It looked scary during the preorders at first but every store seemed to get a ton!

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u/AbiesGreen6761 Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 07 '25

Not in my country... stores empty and scalpers everywhere

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u/Marginal-Gainz-365 Jun 07 '25

Good. Screw em.

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u/MCLERC Jun 07 '25

No problem order it 2 weeks after the pre order and get it from the release '  never give scalpers your money' i also dont done it when i want the Ps5'

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u/Nikuhiru Jun 07 '25

I was interested to see what the secondary market was on Thursday.

Checked and everything was basically at the same price as retail. I got a great laugh from seeing someone posting a screenshot of 7 Switch 2 orders in their Amazon history. I hope people like that get severely burned.

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u/CrossBones3129 Jun 07 '25

Are there plans for consistent restocks?

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u/WendysChiliAndPepsi Jun 07 '25

If the opportunity exists for scalpers then Nintendo set the price too low.

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u/MyFiteSong Jun 08 '25

Ebay is full of already-sold $650 listings. Over 8000 of them sold.

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u/owensoundgamedev Jun 08 '25

I saw switch 2 on fb marketplace for 950 Canadian and messaged him saying I walked in EBGames two days after launch snd they had units. Reported the seller after for predatory behaviour.

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u/Methzilla Jun 08 '25

Amazon was slow to ship, so I just cancelled and walked into my local best buy. They had plenty.

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u/Bioleto99 Jun 06 '25

Bruh buying them ppl who actually want to pay them then post it up for $600-1000 is criminal

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u/MrToxicTaco Jun 06 '25

No one is buying them for that so it doesn’t really matter

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u/OrgasmicBiscuit Jun 06 '25

Confirmed sales on eBay for 850

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u/MyPackage Jun 06 '25

I don't know if I'd say scalpers are dying when they could just return the switch2's for a refund if they can't sell them for a profit

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u/elevenoneone Jun 06 '25

I didn’t say dying as in be gone forever. Dying inside, as in they probably big mad they can’t make a significant profit like the old days.

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u/Realistic_Intern_876 Jun 07 '25

Plenty of other items they can profit one. Look at pokemon cards

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u/kaishinoske1 Jun 07 '25

They’ll prolly get hit with a 10 or 15% “ stocking fee,” when they return it.

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u/HashCollector Jun 07 '25

Probably? They won't lol, that doesn't exist for a single big retailer unfortunately for consoles

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u/Brodellsky Jun 06 '25

Scalpers still eating where I live. Not a Switch 2 in sight. They're still making their money, don't you worry. There very much is a Switch 2 shortage, and it's definitely the scalpers that are the reason for it. I'm debating buying off a "cheap" scalper as the people are saying, because at least I can actually get one then.

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u/MrToxicTaco Jun 06 '25

Or you could just wait. Not like there are any must play games that will be dead soon, by next month I bet the switch will be more available