Nintendo: Coronavirus is Impacting Switch Production in China - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 May 2020 / 2,747 Views

Nintendo CEO Shuntaro Furukawa said at a news briefing did reveal that the coronavirus epidemic has impacted the production of the Switch in China.

Nintendo earlier released their financial report for the quarter ending December 31, 2019. Shipments figures for the Nintendo Switch reached 52.48 million units, while the Nintendo 3DS hit 75.71 million units shipped. The company also increased their forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020 from 18 million to 19.5 million.

With the new forecast of 19.5 million it would leave 1.75 million more Switch units to ship in the current quarter to reach their forecast. This is a drop from 2.47 million during the same quarter a year ago. This could be due to the coronavirus in China or Nintendo could be conservative with their forecast.

Thanks reuters.

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7 Comments

mjk45 (on 30 January 2020)

Did Furukawa stat that coronavirus was impacting Switch or not. the headline says yes , but the story says it could be conservative numbers or the coronavirus, so what is it.

javi741 (on 30 January 2020)

Nintendo is definitely still underestimating their sales forecast saying the Switch is only going to sell 19.5 for the year. So far this January VGChartz been tracking the Switch sales as a roughly 25% increase from the same month last year. Plus Animal Crossing is gonna be in this quarter, which is a game bigger than any game released last Early Year. I could see the Switch getting to 21 Million for the fiscal year

HollyGamer (on 31 January 2020)

Damn actually everything that produce in China (i afraid PS5 and Xbox) will also will be affected. I hope we can beat this virus before PS5 and Xbox launching .