StarDoor said:
Oh, you meant an extra million on top of the 2 million. Okay, I misread that. Still, 7.26 million at the end of December seems strange... I mean, looking at Q1, 1.96 million is the bare minimum they'll be shipping in a quarter, since they've already promised increased shipments starting in July. But even without any increase in shipments, the Switch would still reach 5.88 million for those three quarters. An additional 1.38 million is just a 70% increase from Q2 to the holiday quarter, even though the holiday quarter is usually 50% of an entire fiscal year's shipments. Do you think Nintendo is currently shipping units at nearly the same pace as they manufacture them? I hope their production capacity isn't that low. |
I meant 7.26 million at the end of December as in that's how much they'll sell the fiscal year. So from April to December they'd sell 7.26 million, meaning that they'll top the year off at 10 million sales. I guess it could sell over 10 million in a fiscal year, because thinking about it if they're able to ship 2 million Switch's in April through June, they will probably do something close to that from July to September, and then push a lot of units in the last 3 months of the year. But then what would you suspect their supply will be for through October to December? Now that I think about it though, I definitely see where you're coming from. I guess I was looking from the perspective of someone who feels like 10 million in a year is a lot(especially when you consider adding an extra month would make sales 12.74 million). I kind of suspected it would do a bit higher than that, but I definitely think October - December will have to be stocked much more than usual, particularly Novemember and December. And since Nintendo shipped 2 million switchs from April through June, then July through September should be about the same. So they'd already be at about 4 million before Holiday. Good point.
