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ArnoldRimmer on 26 July 2017
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Green098 said:
ArnoldRimmer said:

From what I get, most people over here are convinced that Nintendo are producing and shipping as many Switch units as they possible can, and that the only reason for Switch hardware sales not being even higher is that there is currently just no possible way for them to product and ship more units.

But if that's correct - why would Nintendo magically be able to suddenly produce and ship more units during holiday season?

If anything, I would rather expect manufacturing capacities to go down rather than up at year end, since every company wants to produce more units for the holiday season, so there is even much more demand for the rather fixed manufacturing capacities that companies like Foxconn can offer.

Because if they can produce almost 5 million over 4 months they should also be capable of producing another almost 5 million over 6 months, hence 10 million by the end of 2017.

That doesn't make sense:

They didn't produce 5 million units in FOUR months, as the 2.7 million units they sold at launch in march obviously weren't produced in a single month, that number was rather the manufactured stock since whenever they started manufacturing the device.

As I get it, in the three months afterwards, they sold two million units, so their actual current manufacturing capacity should be close to (two million devices / three months).

Miyamotoo said:

Because they said they will be able to produce more consoles form fall. Remember, we have infos before that Nintendo is battling with Apple for some parts, and that is reason why Nintendo cant produce much more consoles.

That at least makes a little more sense, but I still think that doesn't really fully explain things. If the only reason that Nintendo can't manufacture more units is that they're battling with Apple for certain parts, why is that problem suddenly magically solved by fall? Does Apple suddenly stop manufacturing their devices by that time?

One might argue that Apple usually introduces their next iPhone revision by about that time, and will thus probably stop manufacturing the current revision soon - but how could Nintendo know that unlike the current revision, the next revision of the iPhone will not use the parts Nintendo is battling for with Apple?