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Jranation on 19 June 2017
jason1637 said:

Then why is Nintendo still expecting over 10million?



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Rem87919394 on 19 June 2017

The shortages stuff is starting to sound like an excuse. When they win a month it's "wow they did it with shortages". Lose a month and it's "but they had shortages". Yet they have a big projection



KLAMarine on 19 June 2017
Rem87919394 said:
The shortages stuff is starting to sound like an excuse. When they win a month it's "wow they did it with shortages". Lose a month and it's "but they had shortages".

It's the same caveat both times.



mountaindewslave on 19 June 2017

hopefully Nintendo's Switch stock shortages sort them out by now or July. If not by July that will be mega concerning and there will be a gigantic build of demand with Splatoon coming out.

also to some comments; shortages aren't an excuse OR justification really- it's just reality. The system has not had enough supply to cover demand since launch, nothing ever changed. 



mountaindewslave on 19 June 2017
celador said:
lol, before most people were saying Switch would win every month until at least September, now this result was predictable? ok then

in any case, there probably wasn't much between them, and supply may be an issue, though nowhere near to the extent as it seems to be in Japan. Next month will be close also, PS4 seems to have been boosted a bit by the limited Gold edition console, and I don't think ARMS will push hardware at all

also, Ubisoft seem to be having a real good year so far

you can walk into a store and buy a PS4. you can go online to Amazon and buy a PS4.

you can do neither the majority of the time (online or in person) anywhere in the USA or Japan at the moment for the Switch. I think it's fairly obvious if all things were equal in terms of supply in the marketplace the Switch would clearly be vastly ahead in May



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Slarvax on 19 June 2017
Jranation said:
jason1637 said:

Then why is Nintendo still expecting over 10million?

Because they plan to ship 10 million. If it sells out completely (like it is doing), they should sell 10 million.



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binary solo on 19 June 2017

I don't think Nintendo has ever really suffered long term with short term supply problems for very popular hardware. They could try to manage supply and demand better, but they will still sell a crap tonne of Switches over the next 3-5 years.



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cliffhanger on 19 June 2017
KLAMarine said:
Rem87919394 said:
The shortages stuff is starting to sound like an excuse. When they win a month it's "wow they did it with shortages". Lose a month and it's "but they had shortages".

It's the same caveat both times.

Are those statements really wrong though? The fact is that Nintendo is having shortage issues whether they ship enough to beat PS4 or not. 



KLAMarine on 19 June 2017
cliffhanger said:
KLAMarine said:

It's the same caveat both times.

Are those statements really wrong though? The fact is that Nintendo is having shortage issues whether they ship enough to beat PS4 or not. 

Well if Daniel Ahmad's statements are to be believed, Nintendo is indeed having issues getting components for Switch production leading to shortages.

poklane said:
PS4 > Switch (thanks to ZhugeEX for the info)

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Kerotan on 20 June 2017

So ps4 has won 3 NPD's this year and Switch 2 correct?