Nintendo quarterly sales update (To September 30th 2022) Switch 114.33 million

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javi741 said:

RolStoppable said:

Nintendo states component shortages in their financial report, so that has to be the case, unless someone wants to accuse Nintendo of the no-go of explicitly lying in a financial statement.

The expectation that Mario Strikers should sell big in Europe is misguided. People want the actual football stars with their original names, so licensed sports games are much like licensed movie games, meaning they both reach people who don't care about video games otherwise. Battle League Football is on pace to become the best-selling Mario Sports game regardless, it has been available for only one quarter.

While I dont think Nintendo is lying about dealing with semiconductor shortages, I believe its still overall getting exaggerated by Nintendo since they've been making the same semiconductor excuse since 2021 and sales have only gone down since which doesn't make much sense since semiconductor shortages overall have been improving going into 2022 for most of the tech industry. I'm sure semiconductor shortages have limited sales somewhat this past quarter especially in the ROTW areas, but its far from the main reason why Switch sales been dropping this significantly, here in North America the Switch been readily available for nearly a year now, which is Nintendo's biggest market. I'm not too sure about Europe and Japan but it seems like the vast majority of the regions where the Switch is available most people can get one with little to no hassle, as really it seems like the only ROTW is struggling with shortages.

The Nintendo Switch OLED model is the reason for production shortages now. It has taken a big part of their production lines.