If you need to preorder a Switch straight from Nintendo, you’ll have to be sure to have at the very least 50 hours of gameplay on the unique Switch. Nintendo revealed the anti-scalper mechanism on its preorder registration web page, the place it says it is going to prioritize registrants who meet the gameplay necessities and have bought at the very least a 12-month Switch Online membership.
For Nintendo to trace your gameplay hours, you’ll have to have opted in to share gameplay knowledge with Nintendo. You can verify in case you opted in by logging into your Nintendo account and checking your privateness settings.
Nintendo says it is going to ship out its first spherical of preorder invitations on May eighth, 2025, “with further batches of invitation e mail despatched periodically till buying on My Nintendo Store is opened to everybody.” When you obtain an e mail, you’ll have 72 hours to preorder the Switch 2. Preorders at taking part retailers will open to everybody on April ninth in North America, or April eighth for Europe.
