President Shuntaro Furukawa said 2.2 million people applied for Nintendo Store pre-orders in Japan, and said ‘we deeply aplogize’ for failure to meet demand
Nintendo’s president Shuntaro Furukawa has apologized in advance for the company’s failure to meet demand for the Switch 2 in Japan after 2.2 million people applied for the My Nintendo Store pre-order lottery alone.
In a post on X (translated by VGC), Furukawa said that this “astonishing” number “far exceeded our prior expectations and greatly surpasses the number of Nintendo Switch 2 units we can deliver from the My Nintendo Store on June 5.” As a result, “a significant number” of customers would miss out, he said.
“We deeply apologize for failing to meet your expectations despite our preparations,” Furukawa said. He added that unselected applicants would be carried over automatically to a second lottery, but cautioned that there would still not be enough Switch 2 units in this second batch to meet initial demand.
