Whereas Nintendo has ultimately confirmed it’s engaged on a brand new console, with a correct reveal scheduled to happen earlier than the tip of the 2025 fiscal 12 months (so, by March 2025), there’s nonetheless so much we don’t formally know concerning the Nintendo Change 2, corresponding to its precise title. One factor Nintendo has shared, although, is that it’s aiming to have sufficient inventory to satisfy demand in an effort to stop scalping.

Throughout a current Q&A gathering with buyers, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa mentioned the perfect measure for combating scalping is “to provide a adequate quantity to satisfy buyer demand” (as translated by IGN). The corporate can also be wanting into different countermeasures “that may be taken to the extent allowed by legal guidelines and laws.” Basically, Nintendo is taking the potential of Change 2 resales very significantly. Actually, a Nikkei report from earlier this alleged Nintendo had internally delayed the brand new console’s launch to early 2025 to make sure the corporate has sufficient inventory at launch.

Ensuring each potential buyer should purchase a Change 2 looks like a fairly apparent concept, nevertheless it’s good to know Nintendo is taking this into consideration. Scalping is a irritating apply because it entails people hoarding a contemporary, new merchandise, after which promoting them at even increased costs to determined clients struggling to seek out one at retail due to the aforementioned hoarding. It’s individuals making the most of the shortage they themselves inflicted, and we’ve seen it occur with the launches of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X|S, which had already suffered from low inventory since they got here out throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

The Change wasn’t proof against this both, with its restricted launch in 2017 leading to many a console showing on-line at inflated costs. Ideally, Nintendo will handle to keep away from this with the Change 2, and clients received’t really feel any stress to depend on scalpers. It’d be even higher with steps are taken to forestall scalpers from shopping for a number of consoles within the first place.

Nintendo has admittedly struggled with manufacturing of the present Change in recent times as a consequence of a semiconductor scarcity, however Furukawa has mentioned this situation has now been resolved. As such, there shouldn’t be any manufacturing points with the Change 2: “Right now, we don’t consider that the scarcity of parts can have a major influence on the manufacturing of the successor mannequin.”

Hopefully, Nintendo is profitable with its efforts to keep away from inventory shortages, particularly given how a lot hype there’s surrounding the Change 2. Folks have been anticipating a brand new Nintendo console for some time now because the Change itself is over seven years previous, which in console phrases is historical. But the Change has stored promoting nicely sufficient to maintain Nintendo comfortable. The corporate even desires to push at the very least 13.5 million Switches by the tip of March 2025.