Best Buy began selling the Switch 2 at its retail locations on June 5. It previously said it wouldn't sell the handheld at its online store during launch week, but it made additional consoles available on June 11 around 12PM ET. That restock lasted for the better part of an hour and required in-store pickup, but the device is now sold out again.

When Nintendo launched the Switch in 2017, the sheer novelty of the new hardware brought the company a lot of renewed attention. After the market disaster of the Wii U's homebound "second screen" tablet,

The first post-launch Nintendo Switch 2 system update has arrived. It’s skipping ahead to version 20.1.5 and as you can guess, it adds stability. It is a bit unusual for Nintendo to jump versions, but maybe there’s been that many stability fixes that they’re hot fixing as they go and have jumped ahead to the latest version rather than dropping lots of little ones.