Amazon UK Confirms Time for Nintendo Switch Pre-Orders

So... 6am? Seeing as we're in GMT not BST?

89 reviews on Amazon UK already . . . God bless the internet.

Just called my gamestop. They said to expect a lot of people showing up and to be there 2 hours before opening.

I've pre-registered a "pre-order" with a local retailer who haven't even charged the advance payment asked yet - this info is mostly being gathered to present to Nintendo for some good stock shipment. Amazon is out of question since no kind of hardware (even game cards) is shipped to Belarus from there.

Here's hoping for a smooth experience. These guys did apparently get NES Mini first among all the retailers in Minsk, so hey.

I've it pre ordered here in Ireland. I don't want the hassle of postage, waiting a few days for delivery, possible damage, getting lost or returning it should anything ever go wrong.

"Please be advised that Nintendo Switch will be available to pre-order from 07:00 BST Friday, 13 January, 2017. Due to limited stock we are only able to offer one unit per customer per address. We will be fulfilling customer orders in the order in which they were placed."

Why can I see another NES Classic Mini fiasco on the horizon?

Limited stock! ...Nintendo's new catchline.

I put down a £20 deposit for a pre-order at Game last Saturday. Normally I'd go with Amazon but I feared this be the case of limited stock as everyone will be attempting to buy through their site.

I preordered with £50 last November at Game UK. I better get it Day One!

Any word on US pre-orders besides in-person at Nintendo World?

@the-madprofessor hopefully its 6am because im not staying up till 7am

@Mellor2000 Same here. I have my alarm set for 3:50am and the stream available ready to watch asap. Hopefully work whizzes by as I am then lucky enough to be going to London for the Switch event on Saturday. HYPE!!!

I'm surprised this statement is exclusively for UK. Why not throw Amazon NA in while they're at it >.>

Nintendo! Please make enough for everyone! Why are you you doing this?!

Limited Stock, welp, here we go again guys. lol

Nintendo sucks:(

Good for Nintendolife hosting an affiliated link. A great way to support the site and I'll be sure to click through for my pre-order. I read your site nearly every day so it's the least I can do

I hope you all do the same! 😊

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I hope there's stock so I can sell this to the Nintendo fans.

Thanks new Nintendo.

Sacasm

The hype train is going faster than the Blue Blur himself!

and now I can finally close that GIF's tab which was open for the last few days

I had to get 3 preorders for myself and my Niece and Nephew. Managed to order 2 from Smyths where I was told 'that I didn't need to preorder as there would be plenty of stock (still did), and the 3rd we placed with Game (urk), who had recently dropped the deposit from £50 to £20 due to 'lack of interest'.

Whatever happens, we're in the queue!

will certainly be pre ordering asap, wonder if the UK Nintendo store will do pre orders that early?

"We will be fulfilling customer orders in the order in which they were placed."

LIARS! they never do that! I have pre-ordered so many things twice, the first time close after pre-order availability, the second time again after some time has passed and pre-orders were available again and you know what almost always happens? the second order ships on release date while the first gets delayed!

@FragRed I put £50 Deposit on November 3RD

@MrGawain Yes I wonder why no interest It had a price of £999.

Ahhh panic!!

I hope pre-orders go live on GAME and Nintendo UK store soon after the presentation so I can order before work. Placing a general preorder for the console doesn't count towards certain bundles which is why I haven't ordered yet.

I'm in the US but already growing tired of limited stock talk. I want to preorder a Switch but I have a feeling I'll be stuck trying to refresh a webpage that just times out repeatedly. Nintendo is really bringing me down with their hardware releases. It's almost like they don't want me to buy their hardware. Still have never even seen an NES mini...

it's like nintendo doesn't expect people to pre-order or they don't want overstock..

hello nintendo..it's a new system,overstock it..sell it as it is,then release bundles as more and more games and accessories come out.

how and why do they do this limited stock talk..it shouldn't be a limit as to how many a customer can purchase,there shouldn't be any reason it's "scalper" season again..

I want a switch but the way it sounds I might be out of luck day one preorder..

cheers to those who will and already have a pre-order.

Already preordered. I really hope that we don't have a NES Mini fiasco on our hands, I'd hate to see people go without.

I'll stick to NA because I think Nintendo will keep going with region lock

I plan to pre-order in store at my local GAME either tomorrow or Saturday. I'm also planning to put a deposit down for every game available, decide which I'll want before release date and transfer the deposit money to the console. That way, assuming how many games they have planned for launch, I'll hopefully have £40/50 already paid for.

If plans change and I go with Amazon, I'll be sure to click the link.

Anyway, time to go to bed. Can still get a good 6 1/2 hour sleep before the presentation if I go to sleep now. Night everyone! See you early in the morning!

How about some backwards compatibility? I own Wii U games and will not be paying full price to buy ports of the same titles. And you already sold me a Wii U to play Earthbound, don't think that Mother 3 is all that it will ta.... Who am I kidding it is.

I was lucky to get a nes mini but I agree Nintendo need to stock this properly otherwise it's not going to look good .

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
"Why can I see another NES Classic Mini fiasco on the horizon?"

Probably because it's gonna happen. 100% guaranteed, no avoiding it.

I can't remember the last video game console that launched and didn't sell out for at least a month.

One week before the Switch launches sadly we will see ebayers selling them and probably starting at no less then 600$ up to 1000$.

@Megas: Thanks! You know doxies well !! Very loving and extremely loyal. A bonus is they will likely outlive all of your friends' dogs. Mine is 13 and still rocking. Merry Switchmas!!

@bluedogrulez Oh but they truly are; such great reviews... 😆😉

Want it from the Nintendo UK Store. Bit disappointed that there's been nothing like the New 3DS Ambassador Edition announced that can go to their most loyal customers.

Having read the reviews on Amazon UK, I'm waiting for Sega's Dreamiercast instead.

Ready.... Steady.................... GO!

If we can get thru all of 2017 with less then 36 articles on Nintendo Life about Switch stock shortages then I'll call it a good year. Pre-imagined articles about what will likely happen won't count, just beginning with the first article about the first store to send out an email canceling pre-orders b/c they pre-sold too many. Though if Nintendo wants to get out ahead of it with a "Please understand" PSA in February that can count too. I'm guessing 2 dozen articles by years end is the bare minimum.

@JaxonH Simple solution. Make more. 2,000,000 is a paltry number. Nintendo are too conservative.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
If it were that easy, launch consoles would never sell out.

They are making more, but there's a limit to how many consuls you can manufacture in any given week. They'll probably have been in production for 6 months stocking up inventory by the time it releases. Even then it's not enough to satiate the demand of 3 to 5,000,000 people who want to buy one right away at launch

The fact that it's not just Nintendo, but everyone (PS4 sold out too, even Xbox One) just goes to show that it's constraints of the reality of manufacturing. And like it or not that's just how it is.

It would be one thing if consoles never sold out at launch, and Nintendo was the only one who couldn't supply 5 million consoles all at once. Then I would say yes, others are able to produce that many so they should too. But it's a reality across the board. How long have we been gaming... 20, 25 years? We should know how it goes with new consoles. Unless this is a person's first rodeo, then I could understand someone naively thinking they could have enough stock for launch

Stock is always limited. Like my Spice Orange GBA is a limited edition because they don't make it anymore.

I hope Nintendo UK store will open up pre orders directly after the event. If not will put in an order through amazon and through the affiliate link. An ambassador like program would be awesome. Not so as to get the console earlier, just to get a pre order guaranteed.

@JaxonH Ya, I suppose they had the same problem with amiibo, Pokemon Go Plus, NES Classic Mini, Wii, etc, etc?

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
Of course they did. And it's a consistent problem.

But that doesn't change the fact that this is one area where nobody can provide enough stock at launch. They may be guilty for all the above but for this one particular issue they are not.

But that's not going to stop people from jumping down their throat, because people never stop and think. People just jump on the bandwagon of whatever the first thought that comes to their head is. And people's first thought is, "oh they didn't provide enough stock for amiibo and NES therefore any time an item sells out from here on out, they're automatically guilty of doing something wrong". Whereas just a little common sense and observation would lead a person to the realization that console launches always sell out. No matter who it is, no matter how hard they try.

I would also excuse them from amiibo as well because nobody could've predicted the popularity of amiibo- that lightning in a bottle hot ticket item hysteria is not something one can easily predict, but people don't care because when they want something they want it now, and they don't want to hear the truth of the matter. They just want to blame someone out of spite for not getting what they want when they want it. It's no different than when gas prices jump and you hear people blaming the president for it. It's a situation the president simply cannot control but people are too ignorant to understand that. All they know is they want lower prices and if they don't get what they want they're going to blame the guy in charge, truth of the matter be ******

92 reviews by 11pm GMT lol

So many times did I try to explain how limited stock is normal for a new console release, no matter who made it.
I tried to explain, that the rumored 2M shipped Switch units are not a low number.
I tried to explain, that Nintendo wouldn't have a single reason to understock a new console on purpose.
I tried to explain, how producing more units would most likely mean that they had to release it later, meaning we all would have to wait instead of just the unlucky ones.
And so on...

I always had hopes, that things in these discussions would change... Even though I know this is the internet and most people obviously didn't even read my texts and the ones of the other voices reasons, so it was obvious nothing would ever change.
And here we are, people continue to rage around like little kids "But I wanted my toy today and not tomorrow, I hate you Nintendo!!!11eleven"
without any logic behind it.

By now it just feels sad...
Thankfully, at least this time, there are not quite that many.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE - who did you pre-order from in Ireland?

@JaxonH Thank you for writing it how it actually is.

@Spoony_Tech
Recently Nintendo has become a scalpers dream by deliberately understocking.

I remember an old friend preordering about seven or more WiiUs back then expecting a happy Christmas bonus.

Let's just say he made a very bad business decision.

@supercreeps Gamestop. I know they're thieves but it's the only place that's available so far. I can cancel it and go with someone else if I find a better deal.

Just watch TASHS (turnaround second hand sellers) create multiple accounts, send each S(and)witch to different P.O. box locations, and hoard them all. One per person isn't good enough, it needs to be more like one per IP address. (Of course, that can be spoofed too, but a lot of TASHS are not necessarily tech savvy.)

@blinder2 Nice. So you should definitely get the console day one then... I'm hoping I do but you never know with Nintendo.

I'm awake
I can't sleep

@cfgk24 I'm still trying to sleep with my phone in front of me

I pre-ordered with Game last Thursday, I am hoping that Nintendo will ask Game nearer the time how many units they need to fulfill orders. The only console I've ever pre-ordered with game was the DS lite, they were fine*. Looking forward to a midnight launch if Game do one, however I'm a prime member (Amazon) I might had mine a day earlier. Everyone (just about) got their Nes mini's a day early. However I wasn't a prime member then.

@cfgk24 if this is any consolation last night I had three hours, went to work and now at 12.22AM I am still awake counting down the hours for the presentation.

However if I go asleep before 4AM I catch up with the presentation when I wake up.

*Actually I have had problems with Game in the past with pre-orders.

I'll be trying for a preorder online, but who knows. Maybe I'll get one whenever they restock it after launch. lol.

@FragRed well im.very old hand at this I'm 50 year's old I started when I was 5 years old,Gamer of All types for 45 years.So I've never mist a console launch of Every type of game device.

I will get one at a later time.

Another sneaky move on Nintendo's behalf. They're just creating false demand, by announcing there's a limited quantity of consoles. In consequence, people who were previously on the fence whether to buy one or not, preorder it now. Shame on you Nintendo.

Don't panic people, there will be enough Switches for everyone

I'm hoping all this 'limited stock' crap is just smoke and mirrors. I'll be preordering from Gamestop and I better not run into any problems.......

I imagine there will be a stock issue, at least here in the UK where Nintendo has a tiny market share. It's obvious that Nintendo will be sending the bulk of their units out to the US and Japan, as it makes the most business sense. Unlike the NES Mini though, there'll definitely be more stock eventually.

Always pre-order to avoid disappointment. Anyone who chances it and tries to walk into a store to buy it day one is a fool, if you ask me. That goes for any console launch.

Limited quantity of stock hahahah. Oh man if they mess this up like they did with the NES Classic Mini. That will just be unbelievable.

At wallyworld we are allowing 3 pre orders per person. We can order as many as we want as a store.

@Pj1 Yes, I hate ordering from Game - despite this - I pre-ordered my Wii and Wii U from them and did get them on Launch. . .

@cfgk24 I cannot stand giving them my money, but you are right.