No need to quote some random website.  Just use some common sense here.

Nintendo knows how many systems they have sold at any launch previous to the Switch.  The easy way to ensure your new system sells more than any other launch is to manufacture way more than the other launches and tell tales of sold out pre sells.  People will assue that this will be the same as all other launches of game systems and the new system will be hard to get.  They will line up to get whatever you manufacture.  

So, exceeding any previous launch is almost completely up to Nintendo to decide on.  Why launch in March?  Because they did the math and they wouldn't have enough systems made to even keep them instock for Nov 2016, let alone March this year.   So, delay the launch from Nov 2016 to March 2017 and you can break all the nintendo sales records you want.  No software was probably another problem, but obviously not a big enough one to stop launching now versus 3-6 months from now.

So, the sales numbers are literally manufactured to beat all previous launches...

Nintendo can't afford to not have "the best launch ever" after the wiiU.  Give them credit for using some common sense.

Whut?

Of course they're manufactured. Nintendo didn't just make the switches appear from thin air with a magic wand. They manufactured them in a factory.

You might be on to something...........

Or on something!

Agreed, no magic wand involved.

I definitely dont think its that hot of an item as people think. I think zelda is more hot than the switch itself

From creating artificial demand to over supplying to beat other console FW sales

Now I've seen everything relating to the Switch

Give it another day.

Yep. By Foxconn. The addition of anti-suicide nets have buoyed console numbers for everybody though. So no matter your allegiance, we all win.