 Nintendo Switch Insanity has reached an entirely new level this week in Japan and that maybe shouldn't be surprising considering that this is the week that Splatoon 2 comes out and the original Splatoon was extremely popular in Japan and now you have a portable console-like device that's been selling like hotcakes in Japan this whole time So let's just dive right in So there are two specific retail outlets that we know about publicly one in Osaka, one in another part of Japan that had well over 3,000 people waiting in line today just for the opportunity to potentially buy a Switch Essentially you waited in line, you were given a lottery number they drew 250 lottery numbers since they had 250 Nintendo Switches in stock and if your lottery number was drawn you were given the ability to purchase a Nintendo Switch pretty crazy and we've known they've been doing this lottery thing for a while this isn't new but the numbers definitely are this is the highest amount of people who lined up in fact one person noted at one location that when he showed up at about 8.20 or so this morning that he was number 2,600 in line and he figures by the time they started doing the drawing there was at least another few thousand people behind him meaning that we're talking about 5,000 to potentially 10,000 people that waited in a single line just for a chance to buy one of 250 Switches and there was another location that had around 3,000 people as well this is obviously insane we know in North America how hard it is to get a Switch and I'm happy to tell you guys that this Friday you'll be able to get a Nintendo Switch at Best Buy, GameStop or Target in person if you're picking up a copy of Splatoon 2 obviously that doesn't mean everyone's going to get it there's going to be limited quantities we all know this issue in Japan is an issue worldwide it is extremely difficult to get Nintendo Switches worldwide but I mean just put that in perspective I don't think there's ever been a shipment to say my local GameStop where there's been 250 Nintendo Switches you can go get but there also isn't a line of 30,000 people waiting outside to get one I mean there's 3,000 people in my area that probably want a Nintendo Switch but you know they're not waiting out line to get it to wait for an opportunity and a lottery to be able to purchase one it's like, man, you want to talk about how insane it is for that demand on the Nintendo Switch and I think this is all obviously good news for Nintendo I mean they're obviously, this thing is in such high demand in Japan alone, let alone worldwide and they're having such a hard time selling it or creating enough of them to sell that Nintendo is going to have the hottest electronic on the market the hottest consumer electronic that's not a cell phone obviously on the market for the foreseeable future I don't think Nintendo has any chance of remotely catching up to demand this year or this fiscal year I mean this is, there are already people lining up for this in weeks in the past and now people are lining up for Splatoon 2 we have Monster Hunter, Double Crosses releasing in Japan next month I mean demand for that's going to be as high if not higher than it is for Splatoon we have, you know, other games coming up, Fire Emblem Warriors all that such, there's going to be Rocket League coming Mario, I mean the momentum for the Switch right now is insane so I know a lot of people, you know, worry about oh we're, when our AAA third party is going to support it are they going to support it, isn't the machine powerful enough right now it really doesn't matter because the demand and the pace of game releases are so good right now that Nintendo just can't keep up so yeah, I'm not going to worry about third parties you know, I've talked a lot about third party games on Nintendo Switch unless there's some big breaking news with third party stuff I'm probably not going to talk about it the rest of this year I think 2018 is the year to start targeting for that where hopefully Nintendo can acquire more manufacturing parts and the part shortages on like Nan Flash starts to clean up a bit and hopefully Nintendo can catch up to demand because there's no way, you know, I talked in the past there's no way Nintendo is doing this intentionally they are not trying to short change they're not going to have 10,000 people line up and Nintendo will look at them and be like, sorry 9,750 of you, we really don't care about your money that's not the way it works, Nintendo is a business they want to sell but what this does do good is privacy Nintendo stock I first see Nintendo stock value continuing to rise because when you have such a high demand like this and you're selling out of everything you make it's going to make the value of your company rise up significantly I just hope Nintendo can meet demand before customers start becoming so frustrated that they just give up on getting to switch all together I mean imagine if you're this person that shows up every single week in Japan waiting in line and you've done this now for say a year straight you've done it 12 months straight of waiting in line and you still have not gotten lucky in the lottery that would suck it's really weird that they're even doing a lottery but I mean on the bright side I guess you don't need to wake up and go out and wait at the store you know, it's 2017 hours ahead of time anyways I just wanted to briefly bring up just how high this demand is for the switch how crazy it's getting and how I think Nintendo's pace of games is going to be fine for the rest of this year and how thankful I am to have a switch and that I did pre-order Nintendo products so the one thing where pre-ordering really does matter so yeah, I'm thankful I got my pre-order in I did it in person the moment that GameStop opened the next day after the switch was announced so I'm happy, I hope you're happy and as always, I am Nathaniel Rufflejantz from Nintendo Prime if you 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