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| Louie said: Yeah, what a BS "analyst" lol. 6 million units planned for this quarter would equal 24 million units per year... and that's without taking into account increases in production to stock up for the holidays. Nintendo never forecasted Switch 2 to sell that many units this fiscal year or this quarter. He's just trying to make his prior statement seem more plausible. It's like Apple rumors: Apple is constantly on the verge of releasing a new iPhone with x feature or announcing a new product "next month". And then, when the date rolls around and passes or the features haven't been announced, these "analysts" always say "yeah, my prediction wasn't wrong. But Apple had to change plans." Yeah, of course. (Some people, like Mark Gurman, actually make a living out of this nonsense). |
Production doesn't mean selling through to consumers in that same period though. The same way that Nintendo was comfortably able to revise up from 15m to 19m in november, I imagine there would be some buffer for them to go above 20m for this FY whilst also allocating stock for April. I do wonder what their forcast is for next year because it sounded like they really wanted to max out on units.
"The current rise in memory prices is happening at a pace that exceeds our expectations. In general, the profitability of hardware tends to improve with economies of scale, and we want to continue to reduce costs as much as possible through mass production of Nintendo Switch 2 hardware."
https://www.gamesradar.com/hardware/nintendo-aims-to-offset-skyrocketing-memory-prices-through-mass-production-of-nintendo-switch-2-because-if-more-people-own-the-console-it-can-greatly-expand-software-sales-instead/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
