Nintendo Switch 2 Tariff Pre-Order Delay Hits Canada Too

Gamers shared a corporate howl of symptom past week erstwhile the Nintendo Switch 2 preorder day went from April 9 to "who the hellhole knows?" aft import tariffs enacted by President Trump sent fiscal markets spiraling, and the contented has dispersed crossed the border. Nintendo Canada confirmed that pre-orders are besides delayed there, truthful you tin hide each astir making a pre-order via your relative that lives successful Winnipeg.

"Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 successful Canada volition not commencement connected April 9, 2025 successful bid to align with the timing of pre-orders to beryllium determined successful the U.S.," Nintendo of Canada said successful a connection to Canadian tech tract MobileSyrup.

"Nintendo volition supply updated accusation astatine a aboriginal date. The motorboat day of June 5, 2025 is unchanged."

It's an echo of the connection fixed to IGN by Nintendo of America connected April 4, though the Canadian mentation doesn't specifically notation caller tariffs.

Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 successful the U.S. volition not commencement April 9, 2025 successful bid to measure the imaginable interaction of tariffs and evolving marketplace conditions. Nintendo volition update timing astatine a aboriginal date. The motorboat day of June 5, 2025 is unchanged.

While time marks the archetypal pre-order launch, there's inactive nary connection connected erstwhile we tin expect to commencement desperately refreshing our browsers and checking our recognition paper information numbers, leaving gamers successful limbo and acrophobic astir a imaginable summation connected the initially announced terms of $449.99.

As for different countries, Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders went unrecorded successful the UK today, with smaller retailers similar EE, GAME, and Smyths experiencing selling retired rapidly and scalpers taking to eBay to merchantability their pre-orders for £500 ($639) oregon more, compared to the retail terms of £395.99 ($506).

For more, cheque retired everything announced astatine the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct, and our large Nintendo Switch 2 interrogation with Nintendo of America's Bill Trinen.

Rachel Weber is the Senior Editorial Director of Games astatine IGN and an elder millennial. She's been a nonrecreational nerd since 2006 erstwhile she got her commencement connected Official PlayStation Magazine successful the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, fearfulness movies, fearfulness games, and French Bulldogs. Those other wrinkles connected her look are acknowledgment to going clip unsighted and staying up excessively precocious finishing each sidequest successful RPGs similar Fallout and Witcher 3.