Nintendo Switch shipment total as of dec 2025 was 38.14, against a sales total in famitsu of 36.416m.
A whopping gap of 1.7m,which would imply so many units on the shelves. Part of that is owing to Famitsu not tracking sales via my nintendo store sales and amazon jp.
Nintendo Switch was cheaper in Japan even before the weaker Yen, so it was all along enticing to import it from Japan and perhaps not just in asia, given it's not region locked , unlike 3DS e.g.
Recently, NS sold under 10k back to back!Someone mentioned shortages in the weekly sales thread and few members mocked that, plus others claimed that ns is on its last legs (i have to admit that this sounded an alarm even to me)! Nevertheless, how can a console face shortages with such a discrepancy between sales shipments?
Last week NS sales Jumped by a lot, reaching 26k (restock) , oddly enough thanks to oled though, for several weeks lite had been he top selling form (which is expected this far of ns lifetime), possibly it's having supply issues too.
Hence, the expectation would be the affordable and extremely cheaper than NS2 ,NS LITE, to be the one sku skyrocketing. NS lite cost just 150$ in Japan, 3DS level.
All these substantiating that at least a million of sales are exports!
Weekly sales baseline of NS remains a riddle!If Nintedo is restocking this late the expensive sku,it means NS still has some (tomodachi) life.
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