You are acting silly, I gave you couple of reasons why it's possible that Nintendo will make more units than they can ship, but you totally ignoring that. And again, its not like they will produce 5m in one day and conserve them for next FY (lol), production is through the whole year, which means that if Nintendo observe that they need to slow down (or speed up) production, they can take appropriate action.

I agree. It's  a flexible number and therefore can be adjusted up or down, depending on demand and it is probably good for some to be kept in hand to accommodate for SW spikes etc. Also those figures are not set in stone and apparently not even by Nintendo. I have no idea why Don is arguing with you.

If they were going to do a platformer that required 2 character movement so solve puzzles, they should have done that on the Wii U.  Having two separate screens would have really opened up some possibilities in that regard, allowing players to work in completely different areas and communicate.  You can still do that sort of thing with multiple switches or even splitscreen but it won't work nearly as well. 

I totally agree on KI being underrated.  I'd even go so far as to say it was my favorite game last gen.  I'd love to see a sequel or update with better online multiplayer options (for example a mode where you use preset stock weapons for better balance, a mode with vehicles and such, or a team based boss rush or raid mode).  Sadly Sakurai seems uninterested, and I'm not sure it'd work without him.

Nope, you tried to glue anything to the wall.

Yes they can make more than they'll sell. The point is explicity producing 5M more when selling 20 to 25M. They will produce and sell during the whole year, but suddenly they'll end the year with 5M in the factory. They way you defend your point they will end the FY with 5M on factory plus the amount on channels on the quietier quarter of the year.

Yes Nintendo can scale up or down the production, with extra cost when slowing down because they have to compensate for 1 Quarter or more worth of unsold inventory. And exactly because they can adjust production that it makes 0 sense to produce so much unsold material to wait for next quarter demand that outstrip what they can regularly produce and all that on a quiet quarter.

Thats my point, but some how Don failed to see that and keep aruging about nothing basicly.

You relly have some problem with reading!? :D

I don't defending anything, I say there are possibilities why they can make more consoles than they can ship, and they are all very logical. Nothing is set in stone, this is not official, and even if that's official Nintendo can changes plans (slow down or speed up production). You clearly acting very unreasonable here.

Ok I read from somewhere that one of the reasons why Nintendo is being so bullish about the Switch is due to the economy. Apparently Japan,Europe and United States are all going to have good economic times in the future. This will boost sales of all consoles. However it will best help the Switch since PS4 and Xbox One will be too old while the Switch will be peaking at this time.

We will see if this is right.

So Nintendo will make Nvidia produce all those obsolete, 20nm tegra X1s, that are more expensive to manufacture than the cheaper & superior X2s? I think there's some missing info , and I'm betting we see a power efficient Switch Lite (looks like Vita, no joycons) by fall '18 to sell alongside the remainder stock of the OG Switch. Then a new/pro version the following year, to take advantage of that chip's power bump.

I didn't see this being brought up, so for comparison, here are the sales of the DS by fiscal year

3/31/05: 5.27
3/31/06: 11.46
3/31/07: 23.56
3/31/08: 30.31
3/31/09:31.18
3/31/10:27.11
3/31/11:17.52
3/31/12:5.10

The 3DS came out in early 2011. If it hadn't, the DS would have likely just kept on going. Also, although everyone is pointing towards Pokemon, the best selling game for the DS was actually New Super Mario Bros at 30.8 million.

If the software is right, then 25 million next FY is possible.

That seems incredily ambitious considering the casual market is on other mobile devices and Switch is pretty easy to find.

Sure it will do fine either way.

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