Daniel Ahmad seems to think there's a manufacturing issue. I understand he's a respected individual in forums such as these.

The fact that your ignoring facts shows you kno nothing john snow

For Honor has a 50% digital to physical ratio.

I don't think the Switch can win the holidays. The IPhone 8 will be out by then and Nintendo will have to compete with the IPhone 8 to get parts. Could be even worse if another flagship phone by another big company like Google is coming out this year.

I don't think the Switch can win the holidays. The IPhone 8 will be out by then and Nintendo will have to compete with the IPhone 8 to get parts. Could be even worse if another flagship phone by another big company like Google is coming out this year.

Plenty more caveats to go around: no major releases for PS4 in May but Switch didn't have any either. PS4 has no manufacturing issues as far as I know and has big bundles out while the Switch is encountering shortages. In Amazon, it's selling decently at a $400 price assuming Amazon algorithms work the way I think they work... Keep in mind no game comes bundled in this $400 box.

And here I thought asking for $300 might have been $50 too much. It's selling decently at $400...

Yeah, I think it won't sell out everywhere during Christmas.

Congrats to PS4!

Yeah, in a sold out situation this amounts to units in transfer. This amounts to:

1. manufacturing to shippign harbor

2. container ship from China to US or europe

3. from harbor to the stores

As the big manufacturers are working mostly for export, I assume they have optimized step 1. I assume less than 3 days. Say three days as top estimate.

Step 2 takes around 50 days from China to eruope through the suez-canal if they stop in harbors on the way. Gets a lot faster if the ship travels directly to eruope (as I read down to 12 days). But a container ship with much freight probably stops at every possibility to change freight. To america I read something around 30 days.

Step 3 should be below a week. As goods in a warehouse are losing money, everyone is interested to bring it to destination as fast as possible.

So overall, we should have one or two months of units sitting in the distribution chain. This changes though, if the item is no longer sold out and sitting on shelves.

So, I would assume around 1 million units are stuck in transfer. Remember though, these units are sold in the next quarter to customers but don't add to shipped that quarter.

All I'm saying is, if I were an employee working there, I'd buy all of them and sell them for a profit. I'm sure there are plenty of shops with more stock than they need.

Switch isnt using any of the part that Iphone 8 will be using, Full plastic construction, including the LCD protection is Plastic so gorrila glass is out of the equation, Normal 720p LCD, tegra x1, ir, radio's and sensors.. none of those things will be used in iphone, and all those parts are used in mid range smartphones, and those are mass produced in china on huge scale, so switch has to compete with billions of chinese phone. and the parts which Nintendo are using are not exclusive, nor very hard to produce, they just have to  place a contract on the parts like every other chinese mobile manufacturer does.. and even issue with assembly line at foxconn is thing of past.

So i dont think a company like nintendo with huge cash reserve would have any issue in ramping up the production even if they underestimated the demand of switch initially, they just need to find a different supplier to those parts and there are plentiful of them in china.

Switch stocks/shipments were even lower in May than they were in April, hopefully next month situation will be better.