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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Nintendo Switch Will Ship 2 Million Units in Launch Month, Says President

DonFerrari on 27 October 2016

Since he is talking about shipments, they will come some weeks before launch, so it seems like decent numbers, let's hope they don't do a 3DS or WiiU and completely overtarget their capacity to ship and sell.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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JRPGfan on 27 October 2016
Jranation said:
I guess they want to do another Amiibo launch thing.

Low stock = High Demand

Get ready for it to be sold out, because of vultures, that resell it on ebay at twice the price.



DonFerrari on 27 October 2016
Nautilus said:
Hiku said:

Well Switch will seemingly launch March 4, so that's pretty close to a full month if that's the case.

Oh yeah, the amiibo release date leak.If thats the case, then those shipment numbers dosent look that good.Hopefully if the demand is there(through pre-orders and research groups), Nintendo will increase the shipment numbers.

Monitoring pre-orders is good, but we can't be sure that it will lead to increased shipments.

Einsam_Delphin said:
That can't be right, BotW alone should sell that much. I know Nintendo always lowballs it but that seems much too low, unless they know they screwed up somewhere (price/launch line-up/etc.).

Always lowball? Is that the reason 3DS and WiiU had multiple projection reviewed to alot lower than their first forecast?

 

And having "low suplly" is only good if it's marginally low, but if they starve the market it will be worse for them.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."