Nintendo To Produce More Switches?

General news News 05/31/2017

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The big N might be quickly leaving the Wii U’s results behind.

Sources close to Financial Times: „Nintendo has ordered a production increase of its Switch gaming console as global stocks fail to meet demand and disappointed fans scramble to secure machines through an informal online market in “Switch futures,” say people close to the company. The planned production hike for the console is designed to meet demand ahead of the Thanksgiving and Christmas sales peak in late autumn and has been ordered just weeks after Nintendo declared the $300-priced Switch to be its fastest-selling gaming device. People involved in Nintendo’s hardware supply chain say the Kyoto-based games maker is now targeting Switch hardware production of 18m units for the 12 months ending March 2018.”

Making that many consoles in this year, and selling them would be an outstanding result: the Wii U had 13.56 million sales by the end of March 2017, in roughly 4.5 years! The Switch might knock that result out in its FIRST year!

SOURCE: Financial Times

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