Nintendo has a fantastic idea to avoid speculation with the reserves of the Switch 2: that you are a fan

After waiting, maybe, too much, yesterday was finally presented Nintendo Switch 2. We already have All the details from the new Nintendo hybrid console, but the funny thing is that just after the event, The hangover began. It is when we met the price of the console and the significant price increase of the games, the controversies’Game key cardsand his Retrocompatibility. The other big question was where and when you could book Nintendo Switch 2.

And the answer is that Nintendo opens a fairly restrictive invitation system (and that makes sense half).

Switch 2 by invitation. The launch of Nintendo Switch 2 will occur on June 5. We do not know if the dantesque situation of the first switch will be repeated, With stock breakage every two by three Because Nintendo did not supply and, just in case, the Japanese confirmed in their online store that can be reserved from April 8.

However, that reservation will not be as simple as clicking on the corresponding button and expect to get to us. As says the company itself, “initially only the subscribers of Nintendo switch online that they receive an invitation will have the opportunity to book the Nintendo Switch 2 console in My Nintendo Store. “And it has a lot, but that a lot of small print.

Requirements … curious. Nintendo does not invent anything with this system that we have already seen in many other products. The mobiles of the first years of OnePlus are the clearest example, but there are a number of conditions that we must meet if we want to reserve a Switch 2 on the company’s website. We must demonstrate that we are “fans”, so to speak, fulfilling the following:

• Be subscribed to Nintendo Switch online before March 31, 2025. Therefore, if you subscribe now, you don’t care.
• Having spent some time playing switch titles that have bought. Priority will be given to those who have accumulated a longer game time.
• Share use information with Nintendo.
• Have agreed to share information with Nintendo and receive offers.
• Have agreed to receive emails and advertising messages from Nintendo and not have withdrawn the consent on the day the invitation is invited.

More small print. It is … too much, with some questionable points such as, above all, the last one, but even the small print has even smaller lyrics. For example, if you meet all that, but you have an online family account of which you are not the main holder, you will not be considered for the invitation.

“In the case of family subscriptions, only the person who has bought the subscription will be taken into account for the invitation. The rest of the members of the family subscription will not qualify for the invitation process,” says the company.

Antibots system. They are too restrictive, but they also comment that “it is possible that the selection criteria relax” later, but that they do so to give “priority to the most enthusiastic players of Nintendo Switch“. And, in a way, although it is something that we can raise an eyebrow, it makes sense to combat a scourge in the world of video games (which often foster the companies with stock too low): the bots and the resale.

If you are in the world of video games, you will know that every time something limited comes out, it is usually exhausted in seconds and, almost instantly, they appear in stores like Wallapop with inflated prices. We saw it very recently with the PS5 30 anniversary edition, and it is something that has also been seen a lot with elements of Nintendo itself. With this system, the problem of user bots that tracks the web accumulating reservations to resell the product is removed.

It makes sense, but. The lagoon of this system is that Nintendo Switch 2 is available to book … almost in any trade. You can reserve it in Amazonbut also in stores like Game or Mediamarkt. In Xtralife they are pending Open reservations And in Fnac you can reserve the same packs as in the rest of the shops: the basic and the one that carries’Mario Kart World‘.

Therefore, although Nintendo wants to “reward fans” for Nintendo Switch 2 reserves, it is still a machine that, logically, is now available in almost any video game trade and should not be waiting for April 8 to reserve it. What is not known is what will happen once the reserves are exhausted and if we will return to the situation of the first months of Switch.

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