Except they didn't do that with the Wii. With the Wii they planned on a possible feeble start, they had just come off the GameCube. When they saw demand was exceptionally strong, they immediately set about raising supply as fast as feasibly possible. The Wii shattered records not due to artificially restricted supply, but due to demand that outstripped even the most prolific supply. And the Switch's first shipments were not nearly as conservative, they put over 2.7 mil on store shelves in a month. And sold nearly all of them. Despite that month being March.

And sales cannot be simultaneously very high and supply artificially constricted. The supply has to BE THERE to be purchased.

When pigs fly maybe. 

Never!!

Maybe Nintendo's marketing is on-point this time?

This trailer currently stands at 30 million views so it seems to have drawn a nice chunk of attention to the hardware as well.

While supply is obviously an issue, there isn't any shortage of demand either. You don't need more data to see that. Just accept that people are into the system.

lol

I've heard the artificial scarcity argument many times but rarely as an explanation for good sales. "Clearly the Switch is only selling well because Nintendo isn't shipping enough to meet demand."

????????????

Liking a Nintendo system? Good lord, when has that ever happened before? Kappa

I believe that if it was truly artificial demand as you claim, Nintendo wouldn't have increased the amount of shipments for the Switch around the world for its launch. After all, they were initially going to ship 2 million.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/05/nintendo_using_costly_air_freight_to_meet_demand_for_switch_faster