Nintendo Has Sold Over 6 Million Switch 2s, But Still Can't Keep Up With Demand (engadget.com) 24
An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget:
Nintendo sold 5.82 million Switch 2s in less than four weeks and is on pace to hit its target of 15 million units by April 2026, the company said in its latest earnings report. If that pans out, the Switch 2 would easily outsell the original Switch, which took a full year to hit that same 15 million sales number...
Despite those superb sales figures, Nintendo says demand is outstripping supply in many regions and promises to boost production as soon as possible. There's some insight into Nintendo's available inventory elsewhere in the earnings report. The 5.82 million number counts sales up to June 30, and the company says that as of July 25, it had sold through "more than 6 million" consoles. That's not the clearest figure, but it definitely shows sales cratered in July despite consistent demand.
Switch 2 software sales were also strong with 8.67 million units sold...
"Nintendo had a very good quarter, more than doubling revenue over last year..."
Despite those superb sales figures, Nintendo says demand is outstripping supply in many regions and promises to boost production as soon as possible. There's some insight into Nintendo's available inventory elsewhere in the earnings report. The 5.82 million number counts sales up to June 30, and the company says that as of July 25, it had sold through "more than 6 million" consoles. That's not the clearest figure, but it definitely shows sales cratered in July despite consistent demand.
Switch 2 software sales were also strong with 8.67 million units sold...
"Nintendo had a very good quarter, more than doubling revenue over last year..."
I can tell you they keep up with demand just fine (Score:2)
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I got a Switch 2 while visiting Australia in mid-June, where stock was fairly available -- I was able to walk into Canberra Centre mall and get one with no reservation or wait. It's still out of stock near me in the US. I would guess that's an effect of tariffs.
And I don't understand the analogy with trading card games. My kids used to be into Magic, but those sets were always readily available at list price. Specific rare cards are expensive, but there's nothing analogous to that in video game sales --
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Have you considered that six million units, if none of them are to people taking two or more for whatever reason, still accounts for less than 0.1% of the world population? There are always going to be people who care more about comfort than principle, who haven't heard about warnings (Lucky 10,000 comes to mind), etc.
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Or alternatively, they know and don't care
The natives are restless tho.... (Score:2)
Seriously (Score:3)
It is more like a Switch 1.25 than a Switch 2, but hey if God decided there's a sucker born every minute what can we do about it?
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That wasn't God, that was P.T. Barnum.
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It is more like a Switch 1.25 than a Switch 2, but hey if God decided there's a sucker born every minute what can we do about it?
Apparently the customers know, because Nintendo raised the price on the Switch 1, but not the 2. The die hardest fans are claiming it's due to tariffs, but then it would have affected both consoles.
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The Switch 2 pricing was announced well after Trump was elected, and undoubtedly included *some* additional markup for tariff increases from the get go, since he had been talking about tariffs the whole campaign, even if it has been a continual game of roulette trying to predict the *exact* tariffs. So it makes sense that the Switch 1 prices would be more sensitive to the tariffs than the Switch 2.
But how many are buying second consoles? (Score:2)
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Not many. Because the people affected were using MIG Switch cartridges likely with copied games that they don't own.
And people who got their games secondhand got their consoles reactivated once they proved they have the original cartridge.
You can claim MIG Switch is for "backup" purposes, but incidents like this prove people are copying games and then selling them. It's just that before Nintendo would only catch this if two people went online with the same serial number.
And people who did properly use their
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Oh, well then no damage done. Except for the fact that a company can kill the console you purchased just because they believe you did something wrong and you're considered guilty until you can convince them of your innocence. Nintendo has a history of treating their fans like absolute garbage and yet people are lining up to hand them money. Apple is the only company that probably ha
Widely available in Canada (Score:4, Interesting)
They're keeping up with demand just fine in Canada. It's in stock in all stores. Amazon will deliver it to you tomorrow. Walmart, Staples, Canada Computers, and BestBuy will take two days. GameStop/EBGames wanted me to create an account to get a shipping estimate, but it was also in stock.
I can't find any store that is out of stock of the Switch 2. But to be fair, I only checked the six stores I mentioned above.
Was that title generated by Ai? (Score:2)
"But" makes no sense in there - I'm not sure why anyone would think it did. It's exactly the wrong word.
Two Games (Score:2)
They finally released a second game for the Switch 2, so now they've got Mario Kart and Donkey Kong. What will the third Switch 2 game be?