Switch Sales Top 100 Million - Global Hardware Dec 11 to 18

[Alby_da_Wolf]

curl-6 said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Another week of total NS domination. Sony and MS must be scratching their heads trying to figure how Ninty manages to be hit by component shortages so much less than them.

I mean, it's hardly a mystery, Switch is using an older fabrication process and components while PS5 and Xbox Series use newer and bigger chips built on a relatively new fab process.

Yea, I suppose that there are many factors that contribute, for example, using a SoC derived from mobile ones, NS probably needs a lot less other chips on its mobo. New fab process should in the mid and long term favour PS and XS, but this benefit probably isn't enough to make up for the far higher transistor count.
Smaller RAM should also help NS, RAM has always been a type of component affected by recurrent shortages.