Nintendo announced its Japanese My Nintendo Store a while back, but don't go thinking this is just an extension of the existing digital My Nintendo portal which sells virtual items for games like Miitomo - this is an actual online retail outlet in Japan, and Nintendo's main (official) channel for offering Nintendo Switch consoles and accessories in that region. The store even offers the chance to mix and match Joy-Con colours, which is neat.
Or rather, it would be neat if the site was actually working. It went live yesterday and was unable to cope with demand. The site remains down at the time of writing.
While that's obviously not ideal, it's good news for Nintendo in one way as it clearly reflects an incredible amount of interest in the new hybrid console. The 3DS has been a massive success in its homeland, and Nintendo will be hoping that the Switch can replicate this performance - rather than imitate the dire commercial fortunes of its current home console, the Wii U.
[source japanesenintendo.com]
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Boom! The Switch breaks the internet.
Please give them money for online, they need it lol.
Nintendo is always successful in the domestic market, it's the international markets that they need to target!
Time to ramp up production Nintendo!
Sounds promising, but Japanese will always support Nintendo, why did they delay preorders for Japanese? Did we ever get a reason for that?
We'll get our switches...don't worry!
@Bunkerneath The Jap market did not swoon for the WiiU like they are swooning for the Switch now. They are totally getting on board with the Switch.
Situations like this and Pokemon Bank are why people are concerned about Nintendo's decision to go for paid online with Switch.
Yay Nintendo preporations!! Always soo good at stock and preorders and electronic purchases and online. So glad they are as good at this now as in the past. Fills me with confidence that they understand their own market demands 😂😂😉
Oh Nintendo!
Lol i want tobsee the numbers of the pre orders. It will go crazyy
I'm surprised other regions hadn't started official Nintendo online stores already... it's already available here in the UK... has had a few teething problems, but generally works great now.
The only issue is that the prices are the full RRP, with rather limited offers, so it's typically cheaper to go elsewhere... although you can sometimes find items that are sold out elsewhere.
@the8thark
Just so you know, jap is considered a racial slur for japanese people, so if you want to abbreviate, use jpn.
It's nice to see that Japan is reacting like that to the Switch, to me it means they are considering it the next handheld console and successor to the 3DS, since their reaction to the Wii U was lukewarm at best.
Nintendo really needs to get better servers and implement more of those retail stores around the world!
Its great to see so much interest!
Online Nintendo shop sounds cool. I would rather give the shops mark up to Nintendo; they make good games whereas the weird guy at the shop only makes funny smells.
This seems promising. I hope online servers are tremendously better. I also would like to see an eshop that is contains a gaming library from nes to wii/wii u titles. I just genesis games will be there as well.
I guess only time will tell.
@CaptainRainbow Not quite possible, given the hardware setup of the Switch. NES, SNES and N64 games will be simple to emulate, but you can't offer GameCube games without analog triggers, Wii games without an IR sensor bar or Wii U games without a second screen.
The preorders in Japan at retailers sold out on the 21st pretty soon after they opened. Later in the day a lot of major online news sites started advertising the Nintendo site opening on the 23rd. I was only trying to get a case off My Nintendo and it had crashed almost instantly. I can't say I'm surprised, though.
@the8thark @Luna_110 Yes, please use Jpn or Japanese.
@Luna_110 I don't believe the Switch is the 3DS successor it's the Wii U successor sure , yet I really don't see Nintendo done with 3D handhelds I think they really want a successful home console this time and are focused on that . There are interviews where they state this.
@Romeo-75
They won't kill outright the 3DS, since its their safety net if the Switch doesn't meet expectations. But with the unification of the handheld and development teams, and the announcement of a Fire Emblem for Switch (that has been a handheld entry for the current releases), don't you think their setting it up to replace the 3DS?
They said the DS wouldn't replace the Gameboy line, and look where we are now.
Come on website! Hurry up!
http://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-fans-get-a-possible-godzilla-sighting-1485165880
Lol! This is without Pokemon just imagine. Third parties will be on Switch you will see not that I care anyway. The Switch will be huge in Japan and is basically the nail of the PS Vita market.
@thesilverbrick I can see Wii games working providing that they thought about how to translate the Joy-Con motion controllers while they were in development (the left one apparently has pointer capabilities as well).
Gamecube is possible but sounds like in practice fairly annoying for the player (the Wii U pro controller had both L1 and L2 buttons for example). I'm not sure if the Switch controllers have two shoulder buttons on both sides. If someone could link a picture of the back of the controller that would be awesome.
Wii U remains up in the air as I don't believe Nintendo has actually mentioned if you can use both the TV and the console independently? Though then again if you have to dock the console to use it on the TV then that seems pretty unlikely (unless they add a patch later on that integrates a virtual Wii U mode similar to what they did on the Wii U for the Wii, effectively allowing the console to act differently while being in that mode).
I think we really need to hear from Nintendo again soon. Reggie commented about previous purchases not too long ago and to wait for further info on that.
@Luna_110 Please, we're not special snowflakes here that can't handle a few words that are not politically correct.
I will do as you say. I will respect your wishes. But I also will speak the truth.
Did they not pause for effect SWITCH the internet on? HA HA HAHAHAJAJAJAJAJHAHA....HA...ha...ha...i'll just go...
@the8thark "Special snowflakes?" "Speak the truth?" OK, you mentioned a correct statement of fact in your initial post, that much is true. But everyone is just pointing out that you accidentally used a loaded word while doing so. We know you didn't mean to. The correct response from you would be to gracefully accept what we asked of you.
@Grumblevolcano yeah cause PSN has never gone offline under duress. OH WAIT
@the8thark
Look, I didn't mean to offend you. For the record, I'm not japanese but I don't think racial slurs are adecuate, whether on person or in internet.
Look the origin of "jap" and you'll see why it is offensive. It would be the same as saying the n-word and treating the rest as "special snowflakes".
It isn't being "special". Its called having enough respect for the rest of the world as to not use an offensive word to them.
And so it begins....
Man, the Switch is like 25% cheaper in Japan than in Russia! So... can anyone tell me if there's any reason not to order the console itself overseas?
@pinta_vodki Extra import duties. . . .
Nintendo Japan SWITCH order website totally crashed because everyone was trying to order at the same time. . . .toatlly sold out!
Awesome that the console is selling out but does not show that Nintendo knows that it might have a popular machine and stock may be an issue for a while again.
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