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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. |
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.
