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Well, it's a day gamers have been waiting months for. Pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 are underway, but not everyone got their hands on one
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Most retailers sold out instantly, with many websites even crashing because of the overwhelming demand
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Fox News' Kendall Green talked to customers outside the Nintendo store in Midtown and has a look at the rollout
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In other countries, they sold out within the first couple minutes, so I was kind of not surprised for it to happen
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Kevin Bellum and his brother are among the thousands of gamers swarming to Nintendo's store in Midtown
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fueling the surge of pre-orders for the new Nintendo Switch 2 coming out later this summer
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Switch always releases games that never disappoint, like the Mario Party Jamboree, Mario Party games in general
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The demand for the new $450 console forced website crashes among major retailers overnight
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leading customers to sold-out alerts within hours of going live. Todd and his sons were pretty bummed it happened so fast
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We tried last night to pre-order it, so we popped in there today to see if they had anything, and they said no
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You were hoping to get one today. I was hoping. Now I'm devastated. It just very fun and active and I just like that fun feeling of when you playing it Though we more than a month away from the console June 5th launch date there hasn been this type of hype surrounding a console since the release of the PS5 in 2020
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This matches, if not, eclipses that in terms of the type of demand that we're seeing
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We actually had a live blog going on Tom's Guide since last night
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just trying to help people find the console with links out to all of the retailers
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and I could say it's been one of the most traffic stories of the entire month so far
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Part of the high demand, he says, stems from customers' worries tariffs could impact the price of the console
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and concern Nintendo would charge more for the game over the next few weeks
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similar to price hikes for some of its accessories. So for those who didn't get your hands on the Nintendo Switch, chances are all hope is a loss
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Those in the gaming world, they say sold out typically just means sold out for now
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Don't be discouraged if you see something as being sold out, because if you wait a few minutes, stock can come back in
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especially during, like, a big restock event that's going to be happening over the next, like, few weeks or so
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We're going to see if we can get it somewhere else. So Target, Best Buy, we'll see what we're going to do
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In Midtown, Kendall Green, Fox 5 News
