{"id":104990,"date":"2019-12-06T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/at_least_50000_switch_have_already_been_pre-ordered_in_china_ahead_of_next_weeks_launch"},"modified":"2019-12-06T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T02:00:00","slug":"at-least-50000-switch-have-already-been-pre-ordered-in-china-ahead-of-next-weeks-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/06\/at-least-50000-switch-have-already-been-pre-ordered-in-china-ahead-of-next-weeks-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least 50,000 Switch Have Already Been Pre-Ordered In China Ahead Of Next Week&#8217;s Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b5bf4eb62c45d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b5bf4eb62c45d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Nintendo Switch Standard Model\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b5bf4eb62c45d\/nintendo-switch-standard-model.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b5bf4eb62c45d\/nintendo-switch-standard-model.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Switch Standard Model\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this week, Nintendo and its partner Tencent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/nintendo_switch_to_officially_launch_in_china_next_week\">announced<\/a> the Switch would launch in mainland China next week on 10th December. Now, one of the biggest e-commerce sites in China \u2013 <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jd.com\/?ds_rl=1272146&amp;cu=true&amp;utm_source=google-search&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=t_262767352_googlesearch&amp;utm_term=kwd-300150634722_0_029225601f244330968621649df96d2e\">JD.com<\/a> \u2013 has revealed how many consoles were pre-ordered not long after this announcement.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data shared by JD (via <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chinesenintendo\/status\/1202123728814886912\">Chinese Nintendo<\/a>), the figure is more than 50,000 units. The Switch with blue \/ red neon Joy-Con has 27,631 pre-orders and the grey unit is out in front with 27,735 pre-orders so far (thanks, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gameonze.com\/more-than-50000-official-nintendo-switch-consoles-have-already-been-pre-ordered-in-china-1\/\">Gameonze<\/a>).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Order 1\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9301801756c2b\/order-1.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9301801756c2b\/order-1.original.jpg\" alt=\"Order 1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Order 2\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d24ca7686f76f\/order-2.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d24ca7686f76f\/order-2.original.jpg\" alt=\"Order 2\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/nikopartners.com\/tencent-to-bring-nintendo-switch-to-china-on-december-10-2019\/\">Niko Partners<\/a> added to this \u2013 noting how 80,000 people in China had &#8220;expressed interest&#8221; in pre-ordering the Switch across JD.com and <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmall.com\/\">TMall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the launch date reveal for the Switch in China, Tencent officials said they didn&#8217;t believe the system would sell as well in this country as it had in other markets. Nintendo&#8217;s President Shuntaro Furukawa also made similar comments in recent times, stating how Nintendo did not expect the Chinese launch to have a &#8220;significant impact&#8221; on this year&#8217;s business results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Nintendo and its partner Tencent announced the Switch would launch in mainland China next week on 10th December. Now, one of the biggest e-commerce sites in China \u2013 JD.com \u2013 has revealed how many consoles were pre-ordered not long after this announcement. According to the data shared by JD (via Chinese Nintendo), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}