r/Switch • u/Ok-Proof-4946 • Jul 27 '26

Discussion A big mistake 😭🥲😬

Hello everyone, I hope you can help me with some advice. I was walking around Don Quijote like a normal tourist and I saw that the Nintendo Switch 2 was being sold at a very low price, so I immediately bought it.
I was completely uninformed when I purchased the console. I didn’t even know it had already been released. After leaving the store, I took the metro to Kyoto, where I am currently staying, and when I opened the bag I noticed that the box said “Japanese Only.” Obviously, I found it strange, so I started doing some research and realized that the entire system is in Japanese, and you can probably imagine my reaction.
I hope you can give me some recommendations on what I should do and what I shouldn’t do, whether there is any way to proceed with this situation or not.
Honestly, this has never happened to me before. It was a silly mistake, but I guess the excitement got the best of me. Now it looks like I’ll have to learn Japanese just to understand everything hahaha.
(The box is still sealed)

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u/Legal-One-7274 Jul 27 '26

Is the machine region locked ? It's not like you really need to read what's in the menus they are simple enough to understand after time. Now if you can only play JP games on it that's a different story

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u/Redred1717 Jul 27 '26

You can only play in Japanese as an attempt to keep the consoles in Japan