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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Nintendo apologizes for Switch shortages in Japan, increasing shipments next month

Shikamo on 21 June 2017

Switch shortages have been an ongoing battle for Nintendo since the system launched on March 3. On its Japanese website, Nintendo provided an update on the situation.

Nintendo did acknowledge that Switch has been in short supply since release. The company apologized for any trouble caused for both consumers and distributors.

Nintendo says that it continues to ship more Switch units each week. Additionally, in July and August, shipments will increase. The new Splatoon 2 bundle is included in that. Production will further increase starting in the fall.

 

 

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killeryoshis on 21 June 2017

If they do not have enough Switches when Splatoon 2 comes out there will be blood on the streets. So production increases should definitely be in the cards.



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p0isonparadise on 21 June 2017

Nintendo really underestimated the Switch, shortages have been worse than the Wii era.



Nautilus on 21 June 2017

Finally some good news on this front.Hopefully this means it wont be as hard to find one, and the vaseline sales for Japan will be at least 40k going foward



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cliffhanger on 21 June 2017

Story's getting old...😴



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LipeJJ on 21 June 2017

Good news! I honestly expected lame supply to continue even during Splatoon launch since they didn't say a thing about improving the situation. Glad to hear things will be better starting next month.



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Vor on 21 June 2017

If they doesn't fix this by July the Japanese goverment will sue Nintendo for creating a massive catasthrope in the country.



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NintendoPie on 21 June 2017

It's all a ruse. Nintendo, stop lying to us.



Cloudman on 21 June 2017

They really must have underestimated the switch to still have shortage issues. Can't really blame them for being cautious. Hopefully they can meet the demand soon.



 

              

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Nuvendil on 21 June 2017
p0isonparadise said:
Nintendo really underestimated the Switch, shortages have been worse than the Wii era.

Well what happened was with the Wii, they were able to quickly (as in, within less than 3 months) renegotiate component orders and drastically increase volume.  Nintendo probably has tried to do the same this time, but the unexpected NAND and vibration motor shortages have made it far harder.