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Cloudman on 12 July 2017

It does make me wonder, just how many units are they selling each time they have new stock? Ninten def need to get on stocking more Switches!

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naruball on 12 July 2017

Jranation said:

Goodnightmoon said:

History also says they produced and sold 100m Wii and 150m DS so your argument is already broken.

Haha nice one!

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Kristof81 on 12 July 2017

monocle_layton said:
I wouldn't be surprised if we got 10 million a year just from Japan.

Double the DS numbers? That would be something

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barneystinson69 on 12 July 2017

gentii said:

Yesterday, the Japanese Nintendo Store received a new Switch stock, which went completely out of print in just seven minutes. We do not know how many units have available at Nintendo's online store, but at the moment the console is still sold-out and not available for purchase.

Nintendo Switch has sold over a million pieces in Japan since launch, lack of inventory and constant supplies is becoming a problem in the country, where demand is still high. The Kyoto home is working to increase production and improve distribution even in view of the launch of major titles such as Splatoon 2 and Super Mario Odyssey.

Original - http://www.everyeye.it/notizie/nintendo-switch-nuove-scorte-esaurite-in-7-minuti-sul-nintendo-store-giapponese-298502.html

Holy fucking shit! Thats probably almost as much its sold in North America.

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Nymeria on 12 July 2017

I don't see this stopping being an issue in Japan until well into 2018 and likely still happen time to time.

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Kristof81 on 12 July 2017

So if Switch sells around 150k per week and I presume that's their full production capacity, it means that there's one Switch leaving production line every 4 seconds. Yet it's still not enough to fulfill the demand.

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b00moscone on 12 July 2017

Kristof81 said:
So if Switch sells around 150k per week and I presume that's their full production capacity, it means that there's one Switch leaving production line every 4 seconds. Yet it's still not enough to fulfill the demand.

Well considering production in factories look like this:

Then you could actually see it as fairly underwhelming. Of course the Switch is a much more complicated product than bottles of sauce, so factories won't be pumping those out quite as quickly as so You'd imagine they'd be made more quickly though, in the context of a factory 4 seconds is a lot of time.

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Random_Matt on 12 July 2017

And people care because?
We gonna have threads about how quickly they sell out all the time?

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xl-klaudkil said:

Wow 1000 units sold in 7 min WAUW MAKING HEADLINES.

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Random_Matt said:
And people care because?
We gonna have threads about how quickly they sell out all the time?

Well you cared enough to open the thread and reply to it, why do YOU care? Cause you clearly do.

Poor Japanese gamers, they must have it really bad because there's constant lines for lotteries, not even the real product but a chance to win one!!

The stock issues are happening mostly everywhere. I live in a border town known for attracting many visitors, so not only are the locals competing with each other, they also compete with foreigners just to get a Switch. People even make announcements on Facebook, letting others know when they find stock at some store. Amazing.