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archbrix on 08 May 2025
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RolStoppable said:
Zippy6 said:

We've been hearing reports of the Switch 2 being stockpiled so I was expecting them to be shipping more than the Switch 1 did, so it is a surprise to me also. But I don't think it's a case of "creating artificial demand", 15m shipped in the first 10 months is still very fast for a new console. It's just what they can manufacture at this point.

This reminds me of eight years ago when Nintendo had forecasted 10m for the fiscal year ending March 2018 and most people treated that as the ceiling instead of the floor which it actually was.

Why did Nintendo pick 15m for Switch 2? Because that's enough to make the point that they expect Switch 2 to sell faster than Switch 1 which shipped 14.86m during its first ten months. Obviously they can manufacture more than 15 million units and they will ship them, provided the demand is there. After all, Switch 1's forecast of 10m ended up being 15.05m during the aforementioned fiscal year.

Whether or not the demand will be there is up in the air, but 15m is not the ceiling for what Nintendo can ship during this fiscal year.

Thank you for the perspective.  Saves me from having to look up those stats.

Regarding this thread though, PS5 will win this for sure now barring Sony having to increase the PS5 price similar to Xbox because of tariffs.