Nintendo Switch 2 preorders sold out almost immediately after retailers started taking orders. GameStop might be your only chance.

However, not only has the online store been struggling — at the time of writing, it's still in maintenance mode — but Nintendo has confirmed that phishing emails are being sent out in an attempt to scam customers, pretending to give people the results of the Switch 2 lottery.

If you were hoping to avoid the chaos that has accompanied the Switch 2 launch by pre-ordering directly from Nintendo, that may not make it arrive any faster. In an update on its website, Nintendo says that it's seeing "very high demand" for the console,