👀 The Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition Switch 2 console has triggered our restock tracker a few times today
🚨 Follow Zelda Switch 2 restock tracker @mattswider on X for instant alerts
🎛️ We’ve built a restock dashboard for our Substack subscribers with an audible siren
🎮 Unfortunately, even though it says ‘Add to cart’, an message says ‘The requested quantity is not available’
🏬 However, a message on the Nintendo Store says ‘more inventory is on the way!’
The Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 console is in high demand – a fact that Nintendo itself has acknowledged. However, we’ve seen a few restocks today at the Nintendo Store – though as you might expect, it hasn’t been a smooth process.
Despite our restock tracker sounding the alarm that the console was available, those who hit ‘add to cart’ may have been greeted with the following message: ‘The requested quantity is not available’.
That doesn’t mean it was a false alarm, so to speak. I’ve seen people sharing their success on X and it seems like a very small number of people managed to get the Zelda Switch 2 from the Nintendo Store today. There’s a high chance that The Shortcut’s Substack paid subscribers were among them, as our alerts were sent out instantly once the console was detected as being in stock.
A total of five restock alerts from the Nintendo Store were sent out in total, which lines up with Nintendo’s pattern of offering stock as soon as it’s available, even if its in miniscule quantities for now.
🚨 Zelda Switch 2 Restock Tracker Dashboard
Our restock tracker sends out an audible alert (a siren) whenever the Zelda Switch 2 console or Pro controller come back in stock. Simply leave the page open on your browser with the sound on, and you’ll be first to know when new stock has arrived.
The Nintendo Store continues to be the most frequently restocked retailer, and a note underneath the ‘Add to cart’ button promises that ‘more inventory is on the way’.
It doesn’t mean that a restock is imminent, and Nintendo hasn’t announced any new supply drops ahead of time. It really is first come, first served right now, which is why our restock tracker is so useful.
If you missed out, don’t panic. Nintendo has said it will continue The Legend of Zelda’s 40th anniversary celebrations into 2027 and hinted that it may hold a larger restock during Black Friday and in the run up to the holidays.
GameStop has also changed its listing to say ‘coming soon’ instead of sold out, suggesting it may also be a retailer to watch in the coming days.
Why our Zelda Switch 2 restock tracker works
We’re also still notifying people on X who have notifications on. We don’t send out every restock – we like to manually check them first if possible to make sure we’re not advertising any false flags. If you’re happy to wait for a notification instead, The Shortcut is still the best place to find video game and tech products in stock – just make sure you turn on notifications.
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Adam Vjestica is The Shortcut’s Senior Editor. Formerly TechRadar’s Gaming Hardware Editor, Adam has also worked at Nintendo of Europe as a Content Marketing Editor, where he helped launch the Nintendo Switch. He also runs a retro gaming YouTube channel called Game on, boy! Follow him on X @ItsMrProducts.
TLdr : Don't try and get the Zelda switch 2 from target!
On the 5th i stayed up for the release not knowing anyone other than target had a release, tho i kinda tried best buy put never actually seemed like they got anything to me. Anyway, like 3 times i had the Zelda switch in my cart and got so close to checkout but it seemingly never went through. Till way later in the day and supposedly got 2 and checked out only to turn around and Target swapped them both to regular switch 2’s 🫠😭
What's more annoying is i did grab a pre-order of the Zelda switch 2, but missed the 1 email they sent and that was that no way to fix it. I did see the cancellation email immediately called but they said tuff luck, sucks to be you (basically)