Nintendo Switch has sold over a million units in Japan

[Nuvendil]

Miyamotoo said:

GhaudePhaede010 said:
Wii took 6 weeks? What in the hell took it so long? And I have a hard time believing it took PS4 49 weeks to cross a million in Japan. That legit shocked me.

It took around 11 months for PS4 to hit 1m.

 

Nuvendil said:

Stock issues.  Same reason PS4 had some hiccups early on.  Console manufacturers are generally more conservative than people think, except for Microsoft.  They manufacture around what they feel is a healthy launch quantity and adjust as necessary.  Attempting to immediately stuff the channels can backfire spectacularly if the device fails to catch on.

And with the Wii, Nintendo was extra cautious cause they just came off the GameCube.

Similar thing now with the Switch, but unlike the Wii, they are having a hard time upping production due to the NAND component shortage that set in early this year.

True, but Switch stocks problems are much bigger than they were for Wii in same time.

This is from just two days ago

That was my point.  Immediately following launch, the Wii was hit with very heavy shortages but Nintendo immediately set about increasing shipments drastically.  The Switch had a similar issue, but they weren't able to respond in the same way.