Switch 2 preorders don’t begin in the U.S. until late tonight (12:01 a.m. ET on April 24), but they’ve already been underway in other parts of the world and even Nintendo has been shocked by the level of demand so far.

It's been a wild month for Nintendo, as their announcement of the Switch 2 was immediately followed by the U.S. government upending international trade in dozens of ways. Things seem to have calmed down,

Nintendo said on Wednesday it has received 2.2 million applications in the lottery for its Switch 2 gaming device in Japan but cannot fulfil all the demand.