Beyond Nintendo, stock is still sparse. As of our latest sweep, the device remains completely unavailable at Walmart, GameStop, Best Buy, Target and other retailers. This has (mostly) been the case in the US since the Switch 2 first went up for sale on April 24, and it remains unclear when it'll change.

With President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs looming, the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 has been anything but straightforward. Nintendo initially pulled pre-orders in the US just days before they were due to go live,

We’re less than a month away from the Switch 2 release on June 5, 2025, and while everyone has their eyes on the new and improved Nintendo console, Walmart is dropping huge deals on the older versions.