Nintendo: We never expected the Switch to sell this much

[Miyamotoo]

Soundwave said:

Miyamotoo said:
Hole this article doesn't look very promising about resolving stock problems, especially this last part:

"And Nintendo wasn’t too optimistic about meeting demand in the near future: they plan to ship 10 million units this year, but said that “in reality there are 20 million people who actually want to buy one.”

Does this mean we can expect shortages to last until well into 2018? It’s going to take a while to manufacture (and ship) all those units to meet demand of an extra 20 million people who want one."

This honestly sounds like artifically stoking shortages to some degree. I think Nintendo does like being just below where the demand line is as it generates a lot of free buzz for them. 

It doesn't take that long for a boat to travel from China in this day and age. 

They have contradirary parts in article, first we have "thats easy to increase the production capacity of the factory", than "that it’s also difficult to get components because other companies like Apple (and Nintendo named Apple specifically) are competing for the same components", and at end that "Nintendo wasn’t too optimistic about meeting demand in the near future: they plan to ship 10 million units this year, but said that “in reality there are 20 million people who actually want to buy one”.

So I disagree, It sound that Nintendo increased production but that still isn't enough and that they have problems to further increase production because shortages of components, that is needed to meet demand.