Japan's Nintendo Switch Lines Are Hell

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maxleresistant said:

trent44 said:

Is the Joycon the supply constraint????

They are still shipping Joycon as standalone without the console.

And, getting more consoles in consumer's hands right now is a bigger priority, as it will directly effect software sales, install base, developer support, profits, momentum for this entire Gen for Nintendo, etc.

If it is only the Joycon, it seems very unlikely they would continue to ship much at all as standalone, since that is not that important by comparison to the company.

The NAND constriant has more plausibility in my understanding.

I'm telling you what he told me. The fact that the joycons are sold separately doesn't change the fact that they could be the problems. They are not going to stop to sell them separately, they need to sell them separately, so they actually need to produce more of them than the "tablet", so that means that it is even harder. So it makes sense to me.

 

But since we know Nintendo has a supply issue, if the issue was caused by the joycon production you can bet they would stop or dractically reduce the sale of standalone joycons if it means they can sell more consoles that way. Which does point at the production issue being elsewhere.