| JRPGfan said: So in April 2019 the Nintendo Switch could be around 34m units sold? if that happends. It would need a price cut, and a big title or two to boost sales though. |
Well, Nintendo currently plans to ship 16.74 million Switches by April 2018, and selling more than 20 million for FY 2018 implies even higher shipments.
With how Nintendo has been low-balling its shipment forecast most of this year (they did not revise the guidance in July when it was obvious to everyone it was going to blow past it), I could see 42 million Nintendo Switches shipped by April 2019 and based on current stocking and sell-through rates that would be around 40 million units sold through.
The crux of all that is keeping demand up with supply, which has been very easy for Nintendo this year given their world class first year line-up.
If Kimishima believes next year will sell that much more, then he is confident in the software lineup and production capacities for that to happen in his conservative forecasting tendencies.
This is all very good news, and indicates Nintendo Switch will have a great line of games all next year with hardware sales to match. :)
