Nintendo Switch: Sales forecast lowered due to semiconductor shortage

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Japanese manufacturer Nintendo has lowered its sales forecast for the Switch. Despite the lack of semiconductors, the hybrid console soon caught up with the Gameboy.

Some time ago, Nintendo announced that almost 103.5 million Nintendo Switches had been shipped worldwide since the release in 2017 up to and including the end of December 2021. As the Japanese have reported, are 114.3 million Nintendo Switches have now been sold been made, 6.68 million of them in the last two quarters of 2022 alone. However, the creators are not satisfied, because the number of Nintendo Switches shipped fell by 19.2 percent compared to the previous year. Now the manufacturer has even corrected the sales forecast for this calendar year downwards.

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Originally, 21 million Nintendo Switch should be sold this year, but now only 19 million are expected. The reason for the cut is the continuing shortage of semiconductors and rising inflation. Overall, the Nintendo Switch is only four million copies behind the Gameboy. With 154 million units sold, the handheld DS is the best-selling Nintendo hardware. If you only look at stationary consoles, the Nintendo Switch is already Nintendo’s best-selling gaming console, as the previous top seller, the Wii, only sold 101 million units.

With the release of Splatoon 3 and Pokémon Scarlet & Violet, the Japanese are entering the Christmas business. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will follow on May 12, 2023, and later Pikmin 4. It is still unclear what the status of a possible Nintendo Switch Pro will be.

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Collection on the lowered forecast for the Nintendo Switch:

  • As Nintendo has announced, 114.3 million units have been sold since the Switch was released, 6.68 million of them in the last two quarters of 2022 alone.
  • Compared to the previous year, the console sold 19.2 percent less. For the whole of 2022, the Japanese are no longer calculating with 21 million consoles delivered, but only with 19 million.
  • The reason for the cut is the continuing shortage of semiconductors and rising inflation.

Source: Nintendo

Reference-www.pcgameshardware.de