Best Buy will have the next Nintendo Switch 2 restock in the United States (Image credit: Matt Swider / The Shortcut)

🏷️ Nintendo Switch 2 will restock this week at Best Buy stores nationwide

🚨 Our alert for Walmart’s Switch 2 and Switch 2 bundle went out last week

🌟 Walmart is expected to have a Nintendo Switch 2 restock in mid-July

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This is the week you’ll be able to buy a Nintendo Switch 2 console, if you know where look. Best Buy stores in the US will be hosting an in-store Switch 2 restock on July 1, 2025.

If you didn’t get the big Walmart Switch 2 and Switch 2 Mario Kart bundle on June 25 and can’t wait until their next restock in July, then Best Buy stores will have the sought-after video game in “limited quanitites” in the United States.

Want a leg up? The Shortcut subscribers get early notifications when stores in the US have Switch 2 in stock. Our Substack Chat offers the fastest links to buy it.

The next Switch 2 restock in the US

We’ve been live tracking Nintendo Switch 2 restocks since the console’s launch on June 5, almost one month ago. It’s actually harder to get the console now than when we wrote our Nintendo Switch 2 review a few weeks ago. In the midwest of the US, it’s easier to find Switch 2 in stock, but metro areas like LA and New York City, the console remains sold out.

The hype around Switch 2 has grown, as more US consumers have become aware of the new console (you’d be surprised as to how many people didn’t know it was coming out). Clips shared online of frantic races in Mario Kart World, the best Switch 2 launch game, are basically acting as as a marketing tool for Nintendo. They’re everywhere in our feed.

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We’ve even seen some of the best Switch 2 accessories remain sold out, like the All-In-One case and Switch 2 GameCube controller. So we’re also tracking Switch 2 accessories live with push notifications in our Substack Chat and on X.

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Best Buy and Walmart online restock

Best Buy in-store restock plans means we may not see the console in stock online (though The Shortcut team is tracking it just in case), which means the mid-to-late July time frame is when we expect the next massive online restock to happen. In this case, it’s probably going to be at Walmart.

Walmart has the most inventory of the console and almost always happens online (not in stores). This makes the quest to buy a Switch 2 from Walmart a frantic experience. Pro tip: the more devices you have waiting in line during a Walmart Switch 2 restock, the better your chanes become to buying the popular console. With Walmart+ acting as a paywall that detered bots and resellers, Switch 2 was easier to purchase on June 25.

The exact date of the next Walmart Switch 2 restock isn’t known, but we expect it to be on or around the time of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 release date in late July. Our US retail souces are privy to when consoles will be in stock anywhere from a week to a few days ahead of time and we’re able to relay the info to subscribers of The Shortcut.

The Shortcut’s Nintendo Switch 2 news reporting

The Shortcut is the authority on Nintendo Switch 2 restock information, as over 15,000 gamers in the US were able to get a console because of our fast and reliable notifications. We report on each console restock, and go a step further: we actively push out notifications to subscribers via email and in our Substack Chat.

The Shortcut is the #1 consumer tech publication on Substack and we specialize in helping US consumers find in-demand, sold-out technology. No other tech publication in the US has been able to match The Shortcut’s accuracy and frequency of updates.

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Matt Swider is the Editor-in-Chief of The Shortcut, the #1 consumer tech publication on Substack. Matt, a trusted technology expert with over 25 years of journalism experience and the former US Editor-in-Chief of TechRadar, can be found on social media through X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.