Nintendo will double manufacturing of Switch models in the beginning of its fiscal yr on April 1, per a brand new report.
According to The Wall Street Journal (thanks, Gematsu), Nintendo’s preliminary plan was to provide eight million Switch models beginning this fiscal yr; nevertheless, in keeping with “people briefed on the plans,” the corporate has upped manufacturing to 16 million models.
This is because of robust demand for the console, which has sold out at many retailers since launch.
Nintendo has but to launch gross sales figures for Switch, but it surely’s identified to have shifted 80,000 models during its launch weekend in the UK. In Japan, it moved 329,152 models its first three days on the market.
Over in North America throughout the identical interval, Nintendo stated Switch sold more units than any other Nintendo console in its first two days in the marketplace.
With the shortage of concrete world gross sales figures, we flip to trade analyst agency Superdata which this week estimated Switch sales at 1.5 million models worldwide.
That determine contains 500,000 within the US, 360,000 in Japan, 85,000 bought within the UK, and 100,000 in France.
Nintendo stated beforehand it needed to ship 2 million units of Switch earlier than the top of its fiscal yr on March 31.
The probability of it reaching stated aim is excessive going by SuperData’s figures, and one individual conversant in Switch advised WSJ the present gross sales estimate is nearer to 2.5 million models.
Hopefully, Nintendo will present data on Switch’s March gross sales when it releases its year-end monetary report on April 27.
