That's what I always said since the beginning, but people say I'm wrong, I say the switch chips are easier to manufacture, therefore they are not as much affected by the shortage. 

Its a shame because both ps5 and xbox could be setting sales records for a year 1.

On the other hand, the shortage kinda makes those consoles more desirable, I wonder, if you could just go into a store and get one easily, would it actually sell that well?

That's if you count the DS. It was strictly portable.

If you count the switch as a home console it will become second best of all time.

Everyone predicted it to sell at least 80 million. Its the 3DS successor and also a home console all in 1, of course it would sell well. Nintendo portables always sell well.

Clearly you weren't here in 2015-2016, during the dark days of the Wii U and late 3DS. 

Before the Switch, Nintendo was coming off their worst generation, by far. With their worst selling handheld, worst selling console, and 3 straight fiscal years making a loss. During those two years, they were carried by amiibo, the classic consoles, and software sales. There were plenty of people skeptical about the 'NX' at the time. From my perspective, it had more doubters than it had supporters.

If you only count it as a home console then you have to subtract the Switch Lite's sales numbers.

The Switch is a tablet. It's not a home console. It's a portable. Just because you can play it on a TV/monitor doesn't make it a home console. The main unit itself is a tablet.

Can we not have this pointless debate for the 6574th time?

Chips shortage is realy killing playstation, Major concern for Sony guys... i bet they could sell 3 times more consoles with adequate supply chain.

Surprisingly good Switch stock.
PS5 stock though...

Looks like Sony barely managed to increase PS5 shipments to ~400k/week for BF and Xmas season, I suspect that if they couldn't stockpile more units for BF, they won't be able for the rest of the season either, unless they tried to secure more components supplies and they were late for BF but not for the next weeks, but it's not very likely.

According to Nintendo's forecast, Switch should get shortages rather sooner than later. I think Nintendo was able to produce a bit of stock of the regular and lite model during summer/autumn. The OLED model has shortages since launch.