| curl-6 said: Yeah they'll obviously try to produce as many as they can, 10% more was probably just based on what their realworld manufacturing capacity is. I mean they can't just press a button and get 30 million Switches made in a year, even ignoring the disruptive effects of the pandemic, there's a limited amount of production line capacity available which they have to compete with other electronics makers for. |
It's also coherent with Ninty's typical prudence and past behaviour, they try to predict sales in the longer term to avoid expensive excessive overproduction after the peak. This doesn't mean they are going to stop ramping up production soon, as far as we know they could have predicted the actual peak later than this year, and they could already increase production some more for next Xmas too if they see demand staying so high even in dead seasons. They just won't follow possible spikes (they could have determined the pandemic temporarily increased demand for gaming, like any other form of home entertainment, in the lockdown months), but they'll surely follow a more gradual and safer increase in demand.
