Superman4 said:
Clearly they do. The PS4 is able to sell twice to 3 times as many units per week, Nintendo isnt able to produce a 3rd of what Sony can on a regular basis? I dont see PS4 units being sold out everywhere which means they are producing even more than what they are selling. They are either creating the shortage on purpose or thought the console would flop and only invested enough to make a small ROI. They should be able to crank out 2-300K units per week by now. |
You are serious!? Why they would make Nintendo artificially creates this shortages of their main product, where they dont sell only console but games for that console, more consoles sold means more games sold. Remember, Switch has shortages 6 months after launch and son holiday season is coming. Comparison with PS4 is not good comparison, PS4 is almost 4 years in market while Switch, is only 6 months, and consoles usually have stock problems at launch and in 1st year, not few years after launch. Its much harder to increase production than maintain current scale production.
Its neither, offcourse they never thouth that Switch will flop (lol, any company don't think their product will flop, in that case they wouldnt release product on first place), but after Wii U flop where they overproduced Wii U units and later they couldnt have price cut because of that, they become more cautious with things like that and Switch is selling better than they expected (remember Switch had better start of sales than Wii despite its released outside holiday season), but they have hard time increasing production, we had reports that on market there is shortage of memory parts Nintendo is using for Switch and that Nintendo is basically battling with Apple for some parts.
In any case, Nintendo said they will further increase production from fall and it seems they shipped more units in late July and August compared to May and June.
