Nintendo: We never expected the Switch to sell this much

[Soundwave]

Miyamotoo said:

Soundwave said:

The quantities Nintendo needs are small potaotes, game machines don't sell that much (hate it break it to you VGChartz) in the grand scheme of things. 5-6 million more Nintendo Switches for the fiscal year is a piddly little amount of NAND orders, you have 1.5 billion phones alone (this doesn't even count tablets) that will ship this year with NAND flash. 

Cheap little no-name Chinese companies are shipping 5-10 million phones a quarter with NAND flash, an international brand like Nintendo not even being to get 4 million NAND units/quarter is really absurd. 

But quantities doesn't really matter if there is huge shortage on market, it came to same if you need 5m or 50m, you will hardly find them in any case.

Also it's not point only about NAND memory parts.

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/nintendo-is-facing-off-against-apple-for-switch-hardware-parts

Yet no-name Chinese companies have no problem getting LCDs, and NAND flash, and all of that in quantities that put any game console to shame (some of these guys are shipping 20 million phones a non-holiday quarter Jan-Mar 2017 ... lol, Nintendo and Sony cannot even manage that in a full year). 

IMO, Nintendo does not want to go to other vendors because they didn't make a deal beforehand and would now have to pay a bit more for those parts.

They chose to stick to vendors that are close to Apple thinking they could piggyback off Apple and get cheaper components and their quest for cheap shit has backfired because Apple is asking for more than what Nintendo forsaw.

So for the time being they basically have no choice but to kinda ride this out.