Media Create: Nintendo Switch fans in Japan have preordered more than 80% of launch shipment

In about a month, Nintendo will launch a new console, and you may have some trouble finding one in the publishers home country.

Japanese Nintendo fans have preordered more than 80 percent of the initial launch shipment for the upcoming Switch console, according to sales-tracking data firm Media Create. This hybrid handheld/home system will debut March 3 for $300, and it has created a lot of buzz among consumers that is translating into preorders. This more evidence that the Switch could easily outpace Nintendo’s Wii U console in the $99.6 billion worldwide gaming industry.