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Forums - Sales Discussion - Famitsu Sales: W5, 2020 (Jan 27 - Feb 02)

PortisheadBiscuit on 06 February 2020
p0isonparadise said:
Switch sales are going to be pretty bad for the foreseeable future, even the Animal Crossing bundle is delayed until further notice. Lite doesn't seem to be effected so worse case scenario Switch might start selling 20-30k a week.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/information/2020/0206_02.html

Damn, and they started the year so well 



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curl-6 on 06 February 2020
p0isonparadise said:
Switch sales are going to be pretty bad for the foreseeable future, even the Animal Crossing bundle is delayed until further notice. Lite doesn't seem to be effected so worse case scenario Switch might start selling 20-30k a week.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/information/2020/0206_02.html

Shit. Can't they move some of their manufacturing out of China for the time being? Surely plenty of other countries have electronics factories.



Jranation on 06 February 2020

Oh please! People are dying and the switch stock issues are the least of the world's problems.



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curl-6 on 06 February 2020
Jranation said:
Oh please! People are dying and the switch stock issues are the least of the world's problems.

This is a sales site, of course people are going to discuss how the situation will affect console numbers. It goes without saying we all wish the people at risk the best of luck, but there's not really anything we can do at this point except take precautions within our own communities and wait for the medical authorities to figure out and defeat the virus.



Nuvendil on 06 February 2020
curl-6 said:
p0isonparadise said:
Switch sales are going to be pretty bad for the foreseeable future, even the Animal Crossing bundle is delayed until further notice. Lite doesn't seem to be effected so worse case scenario Switch might start selling 20-30k a week.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/information/2020/0206_02.html

Shit. Can't they move some of their manufacturing out of China for the time being? Surely plenty of other countries have electronics factories.

Iirc, I think Nintendo and some other companies did move some manufacturing out during the US-Cina trade war thing.  Just probably not a ton.



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Eagle367 on 06 February 2020
Mar1217 said:
Seems like the Lite are simply additive sales to the whole package than just replacing the regular SKU sales, as we thought.

RFA and Pokémon keeps pumping decent numbers too.

Seems like even japan likes the hybrid functionality of the switch and it's a perfect console for everyone. And if the switch is selling this well without anything, it's gonna go insane when Animal Crossing hits shelves.



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PortisheadBiscuit on 06 February 2020
curl-6 said:
p0isonparadise said:
Switch sales are going to be pretty bad for the foreseeable future, even the Animal Crossing bundle is delayed until further notice. Lite doesn't seem to be effected so worse case scenario Switch might start selling 20-30k a week.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/information/2020/0206_02.html

Shit. Can't they move some of their manufacturing out of China for the time being? Surely plenty of other countries have electronics factories.

I guess they're able to produce some in Vietnam but it's not enough to make up the difference. 



curl-6 on 07 February 2020
RolStoppable said:
curl-6 said:

Shit. Can't they move some of their manufacturing out of China for the time being? Surely plenty of other countries have electronics factories.

It's not something that can be done on a whim, just like ramping up production takes months to materialize in the market place because there are dozens of components that need to be accounted for in the chain of logistics.

Likewise, the shortages that Nintendo apologizes for here shouldn't come into effect immediately because there's some delay between time of production and goods being put on the shelves of retailers. So at least for the next couple of weeks there probably won't be a significant negative effect on Switch sales in Japan because retailers have enough stock left to sell. The problem is that retailers won't have much, if anything, to sell after that because the previously scheduled shipments won't arrive due to the situation in China. How big that hole in the chain will be depends on how long production in China is temporarily halted, but predicting that is very hard. With luck it will only be about a month, but if things go really bad and China can't get the coronavirus under control, then there will be prolonged shortages in Japan.

The Switch production that had been moved from China to Taiwan last year concerned units for the North American market because of potential US tariffs on imports from China. Nintendo won't touch those units though, so don't expect a reallocation of units made in Taiwan.

Because Nintendo hasn't published a similar notice for Europe or the rest of the world, I'll go ahead and assume that that part of Chinese Switch production continues to go according to plan.

https://gonintendo.com/stories/354491-nintendo-says-switch-hardware-accessory-sales-in-north-america-an

Nintendo claims North America and Europe won't be affected.

Still, hopefully this unfortunate scenario doesn't damage Switch sales too much in the long term. Japan is a big market for them.



Farsala on 07 February 2020

[PS4] Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV (Koei Tecmo, 01/17/20) – 3,537 (29,372)

ROTKXIV continues to do well, I imagine digital sales are high at around 50% too. I can only hope it is doing well due to word of mouth. The franchise definitely lives on, and it might catch up to FF in numbered entries soon, since SE is ridiculously slow nowadays.



Nu-13 on 08 February 2020
RolStoppable said:
curl-6 said:

https://gonintendo.com/stories/354491-nintendo-says-switch-hardware-accessory-sales-in-north-america-an

Nintendo claims North America and Europe won't be affected.

Still, hopefully this unfortunate scenario doesn't damage Switch sales too much in the long term. Japan is a big market for them.

This won't damage Switch sales in the long term at all. The leggy games continue to sell while new games are released regularly, so any short term losses due to lack of supply will happen to be hardware purchases at a later date.

The cause for the supply constraints may be different than in 2017 (Switch hardware) or late 2019 (Ring Fit Adventure), but the outcome is the same.

Yep. Worst case scenario, they manufacture more units later until it satisfies pent up demand from shortages.