{"id":969,"date":"2025-04-28T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/?p=969"},"modified":"2025-04-29T15:59:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:59:40","slug":"random-missed-out-on-a-switch-2-pre-order-sakurai-has-the-perfect-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/random-missed-out-on-a-switch-2-pre-order-sakurai-has-the-perfect-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Missed Out On A Switch 2 Pre-Order? Sakurai Has The Perfect Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Good idea, slick.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you happened to have missed out on a Switch 2 pre-order, then chances are you&#8217;re feeling pretty glum at the moment. We get it.<\/p>\n<p>Over in Japan, prospective owners had to enter a lottery system in order to be granted the opportunity to place their pre-orders. We know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/random-masahiro-sakurai-finds-success-in-switch-2-lottery\">legendary developer Masahiro Sakurai managed to bag one<\/a>, but according to recent social media posts, Nintendo Direct narrator Yuichi Nakamura wasn&#8217;t one of the lucky few (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/masahiro-sakurai-erases-memory-of-nintendo-direct-narrator\/\">Automaton<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/random-missed-out-on-a-switch-2-pre-order-sakurai-has-the-perfect-solution\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good idea, slick. If you happened to have missed out on a Switch 2 pre-order, then chances are you&#8217;re feeling pretty glum at the moment. We get it. Over in Japan, prospective owners had to enter a lottery system in order to be granted the opportunity to place their pre-orders. We know that legendary developer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}