 can't believe that I'm reading this right now. Holy crud. Nintendo is apparently mulling doing something that seems absolutely insane to me but might actually be needed. So I am on the Wall Street Journal right now reading a piece that was posted very late tonight by Takahashi Bocchizuki. In fact while I'm recording this it says it's actually November 10th when on my end it's still November 9th so that lets you know how recent this news is like it just hit and oh man it says that the Kyoto based company is sketching out a plan to make 25 to 30 million units of the switch in its next fiscal year which begins in April 2018 and has begun informing business partners about it. They said the plan is still in its early stages and Nintendo could aim higher depending on sales during this year's holiday season. Then it goes on to just list off a bunch of stats. This report was was created by Takahashi Bocchizuki. Yes that is the guy who got made fun of his gameplay of Cuphead. I believe maybe I'm wrong on that but I'm pretty sure it was him but he also is extremely reliable for his information because he lives in Japan. I think he actually is Japanese himself but yeah he's always bringing us all the latest news he gets from companies in Japan including Nintendo and I was looking at his Twitter that's where I actually saw the news first hit and it's very interesting because it turns out that this would be more units if they even did 25 million let alone 30 million would be more units shipped than any year of the Wii more than the peak years of the Wii that would be more units and if they do hit 30 million in one year it would be roughly the same amount that the Nintendo DS Nintendo's highest selling system of all time shipped in fiscal year 0708 so they might be thinking the switch is gonna sell the most in a single year that it's ever sold in the history of the company for any hardware it's ever released and as Daniel Ahmed on Twitter is noting another analyst out there he's saying that it's absolutely insane and I want to know what Nintendo is smoking and it turns out that it might not seem so crazy because Nintendo has a plan supposedly as Dr. Circan Toto another analyst says the number is probably so high because Nintendo is planning to release the system in China and in addition to that it's possible that Nintendo also has at least two block buster titles that are going to land in 2018 one of those being Pokemon of course Pokemon switch which does have a tentative release date of 2018 or later the other game potentially is an animal crossing now it's just a rumor right now there's no confirmed oh my gosh we'll get the full animal crossing game on switch but it's been a long time since new leaf came out and well animal crossing pocket edition is fantastic it would make a lot of sense to launch pocket edition this year to help push sales for a switch animal crossing game next year and in case you're wondering animal crossing sells like gang busters it is one of Nintendo's top franchises in terms of sales so you combine that with Pokemon and sales wise it could very well massively out do the combination of Zelda Mario Kart and Super Mario Odyssey in the same year so yeah I know I just came off a video talking about how the 2018 is the year of the third party and certainly with sales of potentially 30 million units that they're thinking could happen in 2018 that clearly it's gonna be the year for any game that releases on the platform but Nintendo's not gonna do that if they don't have those big games coming and if they don't feel like they're about to massively increase their market share and China is a huge huge market for gaming and they love mobile gaming in China and if they hit it big in China and they're hitting it big everywhere else in the world and momentum continues I mean they're talking about apparently Nintendo's discussing if the holiday season exceeds even their current projections because right now they're projecting to sell roughly nine million new new units of the platform from October through March so this holiday period heading on to the final fiscal quarter they're planning to sell nine million more Nintendo switches worldwide if they exceed that if they hit 10 11 12 13 Nintendo might be increasing production to 35 to 40 million which and say Nintendo's never done that and what's even more insane is that Nintendo has can guarantee the production lines to even hit that amount and Nintendo won't be you know here's how you know Nintendo is serious about this and this isn't just some one-off report they're telling their business partners and when you start talking to your business partners about that kind of sales potential for next year that means that Nintendo is seriously not just considering it they've practically already decided that that's what they're going to do in 2018 so get ready to get pumped not necessarily because you personally should give a big crap about how many units sell but because you should be excited for what this means for the switch not just in terms of third-party support which again I feel like sales like this are just going to keep proving my point that the year of the third parties 2018 the same year that the switch is apparently top-out a peek out in sales holy crap I mean double more than double the Wii U sales in a single year is what Nintendo is planning this is insane insane oh and I know right the sales haven't actually happened just because Nintendo is going to produce 30 million units in 2018 doesn't mean that 30 million units are going to sell in fiscal year 2018 slash 2019 but they won't be producing those amount of units if they weren't very very confident that they're going to sell them think about this let's say that they hit 30 million units next fiscal year at the end of this fiscal year they only hit projections right they just hit projections so by the start of the next fiscal year they're at like 17.5 million units that means at the end of two years and one month on the market switch could be at 47.5 million units and if they that's assuming that they just take current projections oh my gosh I'm sorry this is just it blows my mind that Nintendo thinks they can do this but I guess if they're expanding the China if they've got Animal Crossing and Pokemon hitting like they're very very confident those games are gonna hit next year if they know they got all these third-party games coming on and sales are continuing to explode and this holiday just blows up for them heck Xenoblade Chronicles 2 ends up becoming the best Xenoblade ever I don't know what Nintendo's thinking I don't know what pipe they're smoking but I want some of that because Nintendo being bold they're being drastic and they're being you know ready to create the I mean if they pull this off if this happens if they make 30 million units and they sell through most of that stock in the next fiscal year I'm not talking about this system I know this system is no longer something that I'm talking about is beating the Wii we're gonna start talking about if the Nintendo switch could top the Nintendo DS anyways folks I'm Nathaniel Fadget from Nintendo Prime let me know what you think about this absolutely insane news in the comments below seriously I was getting into bed and I was just checking my Twitter if you'd also like oh my god I gotta get this out to you guys right now oh man all right like this video if you like it dislike it if you dislike it subscribe for more content and as always folks I'll catch you in the next one