Nintendo to Attempt to Meet Switch 2 Demand at Launch to Avoid Scalping - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 July 2024 / 4,897 Views
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa in a Q&A session in a new general meeting of shareholders says the company will try to release enough Switch 2 consoles at launch to meet as much of the demand as possible in order to prevent scalping.
"As a countermeasure against resale, we believe that the most important thing is to produce a sufficient number to meet customer demand, and this idea has not changed since last year," said Furukawa (via a translation by IGN).
“In addition to this, we are considering whether there are any other measures that can be taken to the extent allowed by laws and regulations, taking into account the circumstances of each region.
"Although we were unable to produce sufficient quantities of Nintendo Switch hardware last year and the year before due to a shortage of semiconductor components, this situation has now been resolved. At this time, we do not believe that the shortage of components will have a significant impact on the production of the successor model."
Furukawa in May of this year revealed Nintendo will officially announce the Nintendo Switch successor in the current fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2025.
"We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year," said Furukawa at the time. "It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015."
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Best of luck with that.
Yeah, they'll need it.
haven't they been stockpiling chips since like 2022? Or am I getting something mixed up here? I'm sure they're aware Switch 2 demand will be massive.
Switch had a hard time keeping up with demand because Nintendo -- reasonably so -- didn't expect to sell through more than 2mil NSW for the month of March 2017, especially when they were only producing 3mil Wii Us in any given year.
In the era of online everything, your best bet now is to go the old fashioned way and just stand in line. Back in the day, you had to be there the night before. Now? Not so much.
That’s the Wii trend :)
It used to be even more extreme than that. I remember a time when you had to travel to specific cities to get your console, launch day or otherwise (at least, at a decent price).
I think the middle ages era of the PSX/N64/DC/PS2, everything was calm around launch day. The hardware shipments were usually enough to supply everyone looking for a new system. It was specific games that were scarce - particularly RPGs and certain imports (again, mostly the RPGs).
Good. I plan on buying seven at launch (assuming they're hybrid devices or handheld).
Seven? Woah.
Yep, and that’s all the birthday gifts I have to worry about for the year.
Good man!
And Totino's will simultaneously attempt to meet the matching pizza rolls demand
So how much units do you think they will have to ship in the first launch quarter to combat scalpers? 5? 7 million? What is the biggest launch quarter in history for a console? Ill bet the switch 2 will break records in its launch
At least the chip crunch is over; imagine if it came out in like 2022, it'd be like trying to find an honest politician
My backlog of games to play on switch (and PS4 and PS5) is so large that I will probably skip this generation. Nintendo needs to floor me with something unique, otherwise there will be at least one extra unit for someone else to pick up at launch.
My last couple of console purchases have been special editions that came out at least a year after initial launch, and it's been worth waiting. Every year, my backlog only grows larger anyway, so I'm perfectly fine with waiting for everyone to get theirs first.
Everyone: How do you plan on combating the bots/scalpers, who are even more sophisticated now with grabbing up devices and merch at nanosecond rates, than they were 8 years ago?
Nintendo: Just make lots
Problem solved! ;)
Nintendo board meeting: Anyone have any ideas on how we can combat scalpers this time?
Me (if I was there): Raises hand Let's give everyone who signs up for or renews an annual $50 NSO subscription a guaranteed preorder if they want it, one unit per account! Non-refundable, of course.
They should easily be able to do this considering they moved the launch of the system back because software wasn't going to be ready. That'll give them numerous months to keep producing next gen systems before launch. They should have a huge stockpile by launch, only task is to keep the shipments steady so new shipments are coming as soon as current shipments get sold off.
It's not possible them days are long gone
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