They kick off at Best Buy, Target, and Walmart at 12AM ET. Here’s our guide on how to increase your chances of getting one. I’ll be on the hunt, too. Good luck, everyone!
A push notification I got kind of reads like Best Buy’s Switch 2 preorders are only for in-store pickup. Language on Best Buy’s website when I first wrote this post could also be read that way.
But Best Buy’s Julia Benda tells me that “shipping and pickup will both be available for preorders.” And Best Buy’s website now says you can choose in-store pickup or “shipping for delivery at a later date.”
Preorders start at 12AM ET.
Update: Best Buy clarified its website.
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First released alongside 8BitDo’s Retro 87 Mechanical Keyboard - Xbox Edition last November with a matching transparent green shell, the Retro R8 Mouse is now available in an N Edition with colors inspired by the NES.
Functionally it’s the same as the Xbox version with an included charging dock, four programmable side buttons, and Bluetooth, 2.4GHz and USB connectivity. It also uses Kailh Sword GM X Micro Switches for its primary buttons, and a PAW 3395 optical sensor.
Happy Fire Emblem Tuesday! To celebrate, Nintendo has added the GBA’s Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones to the Switch Online Expansion Pack’s catalog. And over on the Nintendo Music app, the sprawling soundtrack to the Switch’s Fire Emblem Engage is now available, but it’s a long one. There’s a total of 182 tracks which will take you 7 hours and 24 minutes to listen to.
The internet has lots of videos walking you through the process of restoring and upgrading an original Game Boy. Elliot Coll, of YouTube’s The Retro Future channel, instead dives deep into the process of restoring an original Game Boy demo kiosk used to promote the handheld in stores.
The kiosks only work with a custom version of the Game Boy that are just as rare, but Coll already had one in their personal collection.
Rudd and Nintendo made a new commercial for the Switch 2. In it, he’s quick to explain why he’s got a “long black duster, indie rock hair, and a beaded necklace” — it’s a reference to a Super Nintendo commercial he filmed in the 1990s.
If you’re still not following, don’t worry, Nintendo also made sure to post that commercial to jog your memory.
Another day, another Nintendo livestream, and yet we’re still in limbo about when we can pay for a Switch 2 and what it will cost in the US. Viewers chanted “DROP THE PRICE” in the YouTube chat!
But how unfair is that price, really? The Verge’s awesome video team asked me to explain it on camera. I can’t say I love the price or want to pay it, but I do feel a tad better after this!
