Nintendo: We never expected the Switch to sell this much

[Miyamotoo]

Soundwave said:

ArnoldRimmer said:

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. 

Its not so easy, we had infos that are shortages of NAND memory on market, its not same thing that Nintendo made up, we have those infos way before this article, and that big companies like Apple of course are being prioritizing.

http://searchsolidstatestorage.techtarget.com/opinion/Why-the-NAND-flash-shortage-exists-and-what-to-do-about-it

https://www.kitguru.net/components/matthew-wilson/dram-and-nand-supply-shortage-expected-to-last-until-2018/

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/taking-apart-the-global-nand-memory-shortage/

http://www.semiconductorstore.com/blog/2017/Huge-Demand-of-NAND-and-SSD-Creates-Worldwide-Shortage/2388

https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/21/iphone-8-ram-flash-storage-chips/

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/07/06/iphone-8-3d-nand-flash-chip-shortages/