While definitrly back at the initial date most of the world could both with Nintendo, and then pre-order, it seemed like a good idea, a week before Canada/USA could (May 8th), news already came out that Japan alone had ed like 5M valid s for the pre-order lottery with Nintendo, that they could not meet demand of. And Japan is tiny.

They had grossly missed the mark on popularity of the system, so anyone who did not pre-order with a local retailer is very likely not seeing one until well after launch (like, months). For every person in the internet gaming community giving it flak over pricing and such for it, there are 5+ people ready to slap down their money for it all. 160M installed Switch base showed up.