RolStoppable said:
Yes, the weeks post-Golden Week are the toughest period of the year. I think it was two years ago that a May week hit an all-time low for Media Create hardware sales tracking (MC tracks since ~20 years). I am not sure if Switch is selling through all of its shipments right now. At 40k a week, that would leave ~30k units on store shelves from the past two weeks. Or maybe Nintendo adjusted the allocations for the individual regions because demand in North America is notably higher right now. 25-30k units per week for Japan still result in a comfortable #1 spot and that's what good PR is about; Nintendo wants to hit it big in the USA too. Increased Switch production should become visible by July, or more specifically, by the time Splatoon 2 launches. |
Increased Switch production was visible in March when they shipped 700k units more than initially planned.
