| RolStoppable said: It's rare that projections get adjusted after a single quarter of sales, so you shouldn't reach too much into the lack of an upwards adjustment. Right now there's no good reason to doubt that Switch can ship the projected 10m units and it won't require a price cut to do so. You look at plain sales numbers for the 3DS, but you forget to account for its price cut after six months. Even if Switch ends up below the 3DS's LTD after 13 months, Switch will still be in the better position. Whether or not an adjustment to Nintendo's forecast happens isn't a matter of confidence, but rather the availability of all necessary components to produce more than 10m Switch units. |
Actually, Nintendo has had 3 quarters of Switch sales so far with the report on their third one pending ... (their last forecast was from the Q1 report)
Switch was released in Q1 (although it didn't have a full quarter) and was sold through Q2 with Q3, now going into Q4 ...
I didn't forget about the price advantage that the 3DS had but now I see that I've changed your thinking in that you finally came around to acknowledge my point about 3DS's price advantage ... 
I don't doubt that the Switch will be able to ship 10M units at the end of this fiscal year (I very much expect it) however the possibility that the Switch could end up being behind 3DS means that the match up between the two systems are closer than you initially thought ...
