Yeah someone (maybe you...?) had a really good post a few month back detailing the Wii shipments for the first year/year 1/2 and how they literally could not possibly have shipped more than they did. They upped production twice if I recall correctly and were shipping between 1.6 and 1.8 million a month in 2007 and as much as 2.4 million a month in 2008. If that is supposed to be artificially resticted supply then nintendo is doing it wrong guys.

Right now Switch is roughly shipping 300k/week, wich means monthly shipments are around 1.2 million right now with production nearly doubling compared to their initial target until next year. We should see them slowly up shipments incrementally, with boosts for ARMS and Splatoon 2.

And this was with production starting roughly 6 months before the Switch went on sale. Preorders opened up 2 months before it went on sale, realistically this should be when Nintendo first had a rough idea of real demand and decided to up production/launch month shipments. They probably had some small buffer in the supply chain, wich they used up for launch month.

People tend to forget that every single one of the suppliers will have to increase production as well. The parts for a Switch aren't just lying around, somewhere. It takes time to increase supply for the parts and then it takes time for that to trickle down into production of the Switch itself. Add shipping storing arrangements to that and yes, two month is a very short time to significantly increase supply. They are literally shipping all they can ship right now.

This is basically evidence that nintendo is NOT artificially resticting supply. No one in their right mind would choose expensive air freight over sea freight if their goal was to artificially restrict demand. Especially not Ninetendo who is all about making profit off hardware. So much so that they didn't even include a pack-in title or have any bundles ready at launch. According to Nintendo profit margins on Switch are slim and choosing air freight probably ate those up completely.

Even with the NES mini, they still shipped like 2.4 million of them before they discontinued it. That's a lot of units for a product that was only available for 5 months. They miscalculated the demand plain and simple and had no interest in focusing factory and warehouse space on it, when the Switch (and even the New 2DSXL) were coming up. It's infuriating, but it's not a sales strategy.

In short, Nintendo restricting supply artificially is a myth for all the reasons given by the lovely people I quoted.

For an actual artificially restictive supply strategy, look no further than Disney and their 'vault'. They know they have evergreen products and use it effectively to keep DVD/BD prices above average. In their case it works because they have a lot of diffrent desirable products to sell that they can cycle in and out.

Note how that does not apply to the Switch in any way shape or form. Nintendo could start something like that with the mini classic consoles, only making them available for christmas, one at a time and then having them 'go back into the vault' but they haven't done so yet.

But it did! Windwaker HD and Super Mario 3D world (still a 3D Mario despite what some say :P)

You know, I had completely forgotten about WW HD :P

What if Nintendo themselves have expected the demand to decrease? Increase of production is not something you just "fix" like that. There is not only money involved, but also time. Maybe they decided to safe that money and hope that time would fix the problem for them by the time it would have taken them to increase production.

Supply and demand will even out eventually anyway.

i think its pretty obvious, almost every thread he starts is like this plus he hasn't responded to a single person in this thread.

Yeah, I agree.

Nintendo is definitely buying all the units themselves, creating artificial demand. That's the only reason so many Switch units could have been sold.

While games are what sell a console, during its launch period what counts it's the potential. If you remember the PS4 launch, people always joked about it having "no games" or just PS3 ports. They also called it "Remasterstation". Either way, it kept selling. People weren't buying it for the games it had, but because they knew it would have plenty of great games.

While the Switch has few games, people know it will eventually receive all Nintendo franchises and some 3rd parties. They like the hybrid concept, so they are buying it to play these future games.

About the public, I don't know if it's feeding from the handheld public, since it's quite expensive. Maybe former Wii owners are upgrading to it (most likely skipping the Wii U since its concept was pretty much flawed, Switch is basically Wii U on steroids).

Surprising? No. Nintendo has thrown all of their eggs in one basket.

Home console. Portable Console. And one of their biggest franchises as launch title. One BigN omelett.

How cute.
Just promise us you are not going to hurt yourself.

Yawn. Where the hell have you been? The artificial demand theory was debunked when every single Switch Nintendo promised to ship during launch month was sold. They even shipped some by plane so they even lost money. 

Just go buy a Switch.