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Re:U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 by gruez on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:28PM (#46977904)
>last year was the first year I've seen since the release of the original switch where switch/switch 2 was not constantly sold out (usually poached by resellers early in the AM) every time I visit target. There's a full shelf of them since late last summer.

Don't you expect demand to taper off as more people get their hands on it? It also doesn't help that the switch 2 is basically "the switch, but better".

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Re:U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 by JohnMakin on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:31PM (#46977955)
This never happened with the switch. I am not kidding. 2023 I was trying to buy one for my sister, and it took me months of waiting for target to open and beating the resellers to it, because I didn't want to overspend online (plus online stock frequently sold out). It was released in 2017!

Nintendo is notorious for under producing their consoles vs demand in recent years - the worst example was the mini NES or whatever they called it, they could not keep it on shelves for that one either.

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Re:U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 by sarchertech on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:42PM (#46978140)
I bought 2 switches without any issues. 1 around the time you did.

Months of waiting for target to open sounds insane and is so far from my experience that I think this is actually a case of you were holding it wrong.

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Re:U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 by coke12 on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:39PM (#46978088)
Anecdotally I have bought 2 switches over its lifetime and never saw any of this ever. Just clicked “buy” on Amazon.
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Re:U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 by devin on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:37PM (#46978066)
If we're bringing anecdata to the party: I bought OLED shortly after it came out and did not have any trouble.
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Re:U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025 by kjkjadksj on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:29PM (#46977927)
Do you remember switch 1 or wii demand?
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