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MoneyDJ News 2020-04-21 06:42:56 Reporter Cai Chengqi reports
The new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic (COVID-19, commonly known as Wuhan’s pneumonia) spread, people avoid going out, increasing the demand for “home economics”, the Nintendo Switch game console “a machine is difficult to find”. According to the latest news, to respond to the rapid increase in demand and make it difficult for consumers to buy the Switch, Nintendo is considering increasing production. This year’s production is expected to increase 10% from 2019.
Nikkei reported on the 20th that due to the spread of the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic and the avoidance of people going out, the rapid increase in demand for the “home economy” in the world has also made the Switch difficult to find. Switch has asked many suppliers for parts and assemblies to increase production. Since early February, Switch has continued to be unavailable worldwide.
According to major parts companies, Nintendo has informed several parts suppliers that Switch 2020 production is expected to increase by 10% compared to 2019 (including Switch Lite’s estimates of approximately 20 million units). Some manufacturers reportedly received orders for Switch-related parts from April to June 2020, which were more than 50% higher than the planned value.
In an interview with Nikkei News, Nintendo said: “I hope that suppliers can cooperate to increase production, but because some parts cannot be estimated, it is impossible to predict how many switches the supplier can supply.”
Demand is too strong, Nintendo once suspended Switch Japan shipments
Due to the shortage, Nintendo announced on April 7 that it will suspend shipping of the Switch host and the small, cheap version of Switch Lite in the Japanese market. However, after stopping shipping for about a week, Nintendo announced on April 14 that it will restart Switch shipments in the Japanese market. The limited edition Switch console “Collection! Animal Friends” will also ship in late April.
According to statistics released by Famitsu, the Japanese gaming media intelligence, due to the super sale of the “Collection! Animal Mori Friends Association”, which was launched on March 20, led to March 2020 (the period Statistic is from February 24 to March 29, 2020 During the fifth week of the day, sales of the Nintendo Switch series (Switch + Switch Lite) in Japan reached 836,094 units, representing an increase of 1.8 times (180% of increase) compared to the previous month (February 2020, 298,685 units)), the first monthly increase in three months, has dominated the Japanese game console market for the 25th consecutive month.
Famitsu noted that as of March 2020, cumulative sales of Switch series models in the Japanese market have exceeded 13 million units, which is the sale of the Switch since March 3, 2017 (Switch Lite was released on September 20, 2019) Since then, the sales milestone has been reached in about three years, and cumulative sales volume for the three-year sales period exceeded that of 12,2748 Wii units in the same period (for three years in the Japanese market). Currently, Wii is Nintendo’s best-selling gaming machine, with cumulative global sales exceeding 100 million units.
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