The Nintendo Switch 2 console went to the market worldwide, in the midst of a high demand that exhausted the stocks of the reserves in advance awarded to Japan and has generated great expectation on the potential of the device to maintain the reef of its predecessor superventas. The successor of the first switch, which was a colossal success for Nintendo and is currently the third best -selling console in history, with about 152 million dispatched specimens, it will also have to clear the unknowns about how its price affects sales, 469.99 euros, considered very high by many users.
In Spain, stores in the center of Madrid or Valencia opened yesterday at 12 at night for users who wanted to do as soon as possible with their new console. In Tokyo, about a hundred people queued at the opening of the Ikebukuro Electronics Bicerronics store, to receive one of the units that could only be accessed in the Asian country through Rifa. The first in the row was Koji Takahashi, a resident of the neighboring Prefecture of Saitama, who arrived at the scene shortly before six in the morning, four hours before the opening of business hours. Takahashi was the winner of one of the 1,500 switch that this establishment will distribute in the next four days. It cost him two attempts at the premises, but he explains to EFE, he participated in about ten draws in total in various chains after losing the opportunity to book through Nintendo’s online store itself.
The Japanese, who has been playing video games from the Game & Watch laptops that were marketed in the eighties and ninety years, remember how many years ago to play video games so much resolution it was essential to do so on a television. “Being able to play in a format that is not connected to TV, but in your own hands (as switch) is incredible,” he says.
About Switch 2 highlights his interest in one of the new functionalities of the console, the live video chat: “Playing with friends while watching their faces is more fun.” Takahashi has acquired the pack that includes a digital copy of the game pre -installed in the console Mario Kart World, The new installment of the popular Nintendo racing series, an important hook for buyers and company fans.
At the moment, he says, he has no interest in acquiring other titles, given the almost absolute retrocompatibility of Switch 2, which allows the cartridges of his predecessor to be executed, although he says that he looks like the launch of the launch of Dragon Quest XII, One of the most popular fantasy role franchises in the Asian country.
To a young thirties who identified with alias Kuro, the second in the tail, generates great expectation Kirby Air Riders And he would like a new Super Smash Bros. or a new Zelda, his favorite saga, although after the course acquired with Breath of the Wild y Tears of the Kingdom, You don’t mind waiting for the next. “They have created a very complex story and universe, so I don’t care if they take their time to make a new one,” he explains.
Masahiro Yamamoto, 48-year-old Tokyota, needed four attempts to be graceful with a winning ticket of a Switch 2. The Japanese is very interested in checking how the new screen is seen, bigger and bigger, once he has finished his workday, and also highlights the new potential of the console with the functionality of being able to use the Joy-Con controls as a mouse.
One of the particularities of the Japanese market is that its buyers have access to two versions: one entirely in Japanese and another multilingual, with a price difference of 40 %, 49,980 yen (310 euros) the first against the 69,980 yen (430 euros) of the second. This decision is aimed at combating speculation and mass purchases of devices by tourists thanks to a favorable exchange rate for the current strong weakness of YEN, but has also generated criticism among the community of foreign residents of Japan who are directly affected if they prefer to acquire the console in their own languages. “The difference is quite high, the truth is that I am very sorry for them,” says Takahashi. As EFE could verify, the same day of launching attempts were a street level at that place.
The launch of Switch 2 occurs between great expectation not only of fans, but also of investors, who want to see if it will be able to maintain the popularity of Switch, the best -selling desktop device of Nintendo or if it could be affected by a Wii U phenomenon, the largest commercial failure of the company.
Nintendo, who has not provided specific data on the number of units of launch shipments, plans to market 15 million switch 2 in its current fiscal year, which will close on March 31, 2026. Investors also expect Switch 2 to refloat benefits that were reduced according to the aging of the aging of the hardware original, which is already in its eighth year of life. Nintendo trusts that Switch 2 drives its sales and in which they grow 63.1 % year -on -year in the year, up to 1.9 billion yen, about 11,640 million euros to the current change, according to their latest financial report.