Superman4 said:
Miyamotoo said:
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.
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The only reason I am comparing it to PS4 is because the PS4 is still selling cazy numbers. They are obviously able to build 2-300+ units a week because that is what they are selling. It just seems odd that with a shortage they are only selling 1-200k units a weeks. Maybe they should ask Microsoft to help them with production, they dont seem to be selling much so maybe they have some extra capacity Nintendo can use ;)
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I was very clear, but here you again, 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. Wii also had crazy number after 3-4 year on market, despite had shortages in 1st year.
