They say the reason is to align the date with the US. Bummer that they're lumping Canada together like that.

I was heartened last week when the US pre-sales were delayed but Canada was not... However, here we are.

I wonder if FX is another factor at play here. With such volitility in the market, and almost two months until release, I can see them wanting to limit exposure to both FX and Tariffs. The easiest way to do that is to wait.

Interestingly, this tendency to wait applies to almost all business investment decisions when there is uncertainty / volitility... Leading to increased risk of recession caused by the orange man.

shrug

Almost all video game retailers in Canada are American, so I was going to buy it direct from Nintendo anyways to cut them out and those preorders have always been set for May 8th.

I honestly don’t even want it until there is oled and a decent launch game. I’ve bought every system going back to NES - but I can’t think why I’d want this one until the OLED and tariffs are settled, and no one cares about Mario Kart tbh