Nintendo: We never expected the Switch to sell this much

[Soundwave]

ArnoldRimmer said:

Soundwave said:

Pro-Tip To Nintendo: Next time, try choosing 2-3 NAND flash vendors instead of thinking you're going to be given equal priority to fucking Apple. 

Every smartphone, tablet in the world has NAND flash and they all manage without running into such headaches. 

They ARE using multiple NAND flash vendors (at least Toshiba and Samsung confirmed), and apparently did so from the very beginning.

In fact, they even placed the flash memory chip on a separate storage board that only contains the flash memory chip, probably to make it easy to use different flash memory chips:

In that case they might be stoking artificial shortages to some degree. 

NAND flash is not some magically rare component,  it's in literally billions of devices, Nintendo's orders of 20 million year even are nothing in the grand scheme of production for such parts. 

There were almost 1.5 billion (B as in billion) smartphones shipped last year, virtually all of them have NAND flash.