Report: Nintendo to Double Switch Production for Fiscal Year Ending March 2018 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 March 2017 / 13,486 Views
Nintendo plans to double the production of the Nintendo Switch for the fiscal year ending March 2018, according to internal sources briefed on the plans who spoke with The Wall Street Journal.
The gaming giant had originally planned to ship eight million Switch units by the end of March 2018, however, it has now been increased to 16 million units.
That figure is more than the Wii U sold has sold in over four years on the market. It is behind the Wii, which sold 20 million units in its first 13 months. However, the Wii did have two holiday periods during that timeframe.
Nintendo has doubled the figures due to higher than expected demand for the console. The company plans to sell more than 10 million units in the next fiscal, following the launch month where it plans to ship 2.5 million units.
Nintendo has not provided any sales figures for the Switch, however, we do know it has sold 330,000 units in Japan,and 80,000 units in the UK. A report from SuperData says the Switch has sold an estimated 1.5 million units worldwide.
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Great to hear since so many people had problems finding one, let's hope the sales keep up to the pace set by the first week and don't drop too hard...
16 mill is more then ps4 did.
Just think about that
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You are incorrect.
In the first 13 months PS4 sold just about 15.5. That's assuming the numbers are correct, and that's sold not shipped.
Now that Nintendo will be charging for online, much to my displeasure, it's important that Switch units get out there.
Those are great news for Nintendo!
A lot of people will mention the Wii u, but keep in mind Wii U stock was basically loaded after the first month sizzled out. Let's wait and see if the switch will keep momentum or not before judging
MY concern here is it is far to early too know yet whether the initial success will be sustained, I hope it will but I wold think a gradual ramp up rather than planning to double it would be a safer bet.
on the bright side, they can always do price cuts if it suddenly plummets. They thought this out well. With the X1 chip being very cheap to produce, chances are they can put a price cut on this sooner than expected.
Let us judge right away because you know human nature.
It's a better launch than I hoped for... If it has even mediocre legs between now and the holiday season it will certainly have exceeded my more cautious expectations. Btw... any word on the Nes Classic? Still waiting on them lol
Still seems too early to judge the success of Switch but I guess Nintendo can always drop the price anyway if demand slows down.
This thing is going to sell 200m
PS4 first full fiscal year was 17.90M - source is below. 16M < 17.9M https://www.sie.com/en/corporate/data/hardware_sale.html
Obviously it will peak this fiscal year where it already sold 17.1M in 3 quarters so probably gonna sell 20M.
