Toadthemushroom
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As analysed by Ars Technica. Nintendo is planning to manufacture between 25 and 30 million Switches in the next fiscal year, figures which arrive from people with "direct knowledge of the matter" speaking to the WSJ.
This is a huge bump from the 13m produced for this financial year which ends on March 31 2018. By then the Switch should have shipped 17m units LTD.
As Kyle from Ars notes, this is most certainly a big gamble for Nintendo if the figures turn out to be true. If the company overestimates demand it might have to write-down unsold stock lying around in warehouses.
I would certainly expect growth in Switch sales going from this current financial year, but is a 100% increase in units sold a realistic expectation for Nintendo to have? I wonder what Nintendo is thinking here?
Maybe:
-Nintendo is making a big effort into expanding into more territories (e.g. non-Japan Asia) and expects Switch to do well there
-Nintendo expects big 2018 games like Pokémon, and those only Nintendo knows of, to grow the install base
-Nintendo knows of big games emerging from key third parties that would shift hardware
-Switch 2 coming in 2018 to be sold alongside Switch
-Nintendo previously noted that they'd like to get households to own more than one Switch. Its hybrid nature enables this. Combined Wii and DS sales reached 250m units in generation 7, so perhaps Nintendo is predicting that Switch will draw from what were previously two separate markets.
What do you think?
This is a huge bump from the 13m produced for this financial year which ends on March 31 2018. By then the Switch should have shipped 17m units LTD.
As Kyle from Ars notes, this is most certainly a big gamble for Nintendo if the figures turn out to be true. If the company overestimates demand it might have to write-down unsold stock lying around in warehouses.
I would certainly expect growth in Switch sales going from this current financial year, but is a 100% increase in units sold a realistic expectation for Nintendo to have? I wonder what Nintendo is thinking here?
Maybe:
-Nintendo is making a big effort into expanding into more territories (e.g. non-Japan Asia) and expects Switch to do well there
-Nintendo expects big 2018 games like Pokémon, and those only Nintendo knows of, to grow the install base
-Nintendo knows of big games emerging from key third parties that would shift hardware
-Switch 2 coming in 2018 to be sold alongside Switch
-Nintendo previously noted that they'd like to get households to own more than one Switch. Its hybrid nature enables this. Combined Wii and DS sales reached 250m units in generation 7, so perhaps Nintendo is predicting that Switch will draw from what were previously two separate markets.
What do you think?