I don't think I've day-one'd any console ever, now that I think about it. The Nintendo Switch will be a first.
Closest I've come was maybe about a month after something's launch, which I was around for maybe the N64 and original Xbox, the Wii and PS3. The PS3s were plenty in stock, most the hype came from scalpers trying to make a quick buck, I remember at the time it was news following Christmas there was a surge of returns of unsold PS3s.
Wiis were interesting, I swear for months and months there were just reports of how hard they were to get, and I remember stores all had epic wait-lists, but I seemed to have an easy time of it. I just went into a GameCrazy and was like "do you got one" and they're like "yeah" and I'm like "will you sell it to me" and they're like "okay"; done. Same thing happened with the N64, I remember they had an epic wait-list but I bypassed that nearly the exact same way. Just ask.
The Xbox was actually a gift that I didn't even ask for. I was away at college and my mother and brother knew I loved gaming, went and figured out something cool I might like, picked up a handful of launch games like Halo, Oddworld: Munch's Oddyssee, Dead or Alive 3, Amped. Such an awesome surprise when I came home for Christmas. I was in a PC gaming craze back then and this totally sucked me back into the console world.
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