Nintendo Will Make 20% Fewer Switch Consoles Than Expected Through March

It’s not easy to buy a Nintendo Switch if you think it was. 

That’s because Nintendo will be making 20% fewer Switch consoles than expected through March, according to a new report from Nikkei AsiaThis is the final version. The 20% reduction translates to roughly 6 million fewer Switch consoles, as Nintendo originally planned to manufacture and ship 30 million Switch units by March. Nikkei AsiaReports indicate that the original planned figure has been reduced from 24 million to 24 Million. 

This is due to a continuing shortage of chips. Nintendo is also facing the same problem caused by a shortage of chips. 

“We are assessing their [component shortages] impact on our production,” a Nintendo spokesperson told Nikkei Asia

Even though the target number has been reduced, there is still a lot of demand for Switch. In fact, if the production was able to meet this demand, there’s a very good chance Nintendo would have hit its 30 million target number. According to Nikkei Asia, the ongoing supply crunch “has left Switch with a 37% fall in sales to 214,000 units in September from a year ago, marking the third straight month of year-on-year declines,” a stat the publication learned from Japanese video game magazine Famitsu 

Nintendo’s original goal was to sell 25.5 million units in the 2021 fiscal year that ends next March, but now that number doesn’t seem likely. However, the Switch is nearing 100 million units sold, having sold a total of 89 million since the Switch’s release back in March of 2017. 

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