Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders are available now at one UK retailer
They're not going to last, but if you're very quick a big UK retailer has the Nintendo Switch 2 console in stock at the moment, via a range of different bundles.
The Nintendo Switch 2 launches worldwide on June 5 but from the first moment pre-orders opened stock hasn't stayed available anywhere for more than a few minutes.
That's probably not going to change until much later in the year and since there's never any forewarning, all anyone can really do is keep checking known retailers as often as possible.
One of our readers has been doing exactly that and thanks to Mark Matthews we can tell you that as of time of writing Very does have stock of the console and a number of different bundles.
As far as we can tell nobody else, including Nintendo themselves, has got new stock in but Very does and has created some unofficial bundles for it.
You can't get the console, or the console and Mario Kart World, alone but the following more expensive variants are currently available:
Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World + Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Nintendo Switch 2 Edition for £494
Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World + Samsung Micro SD Card for £479
Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World + Switch 2 Camera for £479
It's a lot of money but if you have it they are pretty good deals, because Tears Of The Kingdom is a great game and the SD card and camera are useful accessories, depending on how you intend to use the console.
The high cost is no doubt why they're still available an hour after first being spotted but if they're gone by the time you read this, apologies for getting your hopes up.
It's hard to tell what will happen with stock of newly launched consoles at the best of times, but given the situation with tariffs in the US it's especially difficult when it comes to the Switch 2. More Trending
Apart from anything, and as Nintendo has already pointed out, tariffs on other non-luxury goods, including food, mean that people in the US are going to have less money than usual to spend on video games this year.
Pre-orders are regularly available on eBay but there's always a risk in trying to buy something where the seller doesn't physically have the item yet, not to mention the inflated prices.
If all goes well then the Switch 2 should be more readily available by Christmas, but the more popular it is the more difficult it is going to be to buy one.
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