While we know that a trove of fans entered the first lottery for the Nintendo Switch 2 in Japan via the My Nintendo Store lottery, just how many people won remains a mystery. That hasn’t stopped some curious gamers on social media in Japan to take matters into their own hands. With the help of friend of the show Genki_JPN, we’ve tracked down two polls that give us somewhat of an idea of what happened.
An online poll was conducted on X by a user by the name of @2021nZelda that compiled the winners and losers of the first Switch 2 My Nintendo Store lottery that ran from April 4 until April 16. This includes data for entries on all SKUs including the Japanese-Language System (console only), Japanese-Language System Mario Kart World Bundle and the Multi-Language System. The premise of the post is to give people a look at what kind of chances they have for the second letter on the store. Here is what they found based on the responses of 15,000 votes:
- Japanese-Language System (Japan Only): 24.6% Won | 75.4% Lost
- Japanese-Language System Mario Kart World Bundle): 25.3% Won | 74.7% Lost
- Multi-Language System: 56.7% Won | 43.3% Lost
Another poll conducted by X user @eivvisa showed different, but similar results. This poll was taken by over 25,000 users and showed the following:
- Japanese-Language System Mario Kart World Bundle: 25.1% Won (4,281/17,049) | 74.9 % Lost
- Japanese-Language System: 18% Won (1,105/6,112) | 82% Lost
- Multi-Language System: 91.7% Won (710/774) | 8.3 % Lost
Of course, these are not official numbers and fans will likely never see Nintendo’s internal data on the lottery results. The higher price of the Multi-Language System is the likely reason why many gamers weren’t opting to choose that version in the lottery, resulting in a higher win rate. Regardless, roughly 2.2 million people entered the first Nintendo Switch 2 lottery on the company’s online store and many were left empty handed. For the time being at least. The second lottery on the shop, which is the only place to purchase a Multi-Language System in Japan, starts on Monday, April 28 and will run until Monday, May 19.
Special thanks to friend of the show Genki_JPN for sharing!
by Danny Bivens
Sources: @2021nZelda on X, @2021nZelda on X
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