 Hey everyone, so we have some exciting news some interesting news for those who don't know obviously this past week in Japan The switch has blown up ahead over 70,000 you know unit sales and I didn't really think much of it because well There wasn't necessarily a significant game release to cause that I assumed if we're getting more stock here in the US Which we clearly are in fact I have links down in the description to both the neon version and the gray version of switch from Amazon if you don't Own a switch yet, and you keep thinking it sold out We have links to it down in the description. You can go buy it right now at MSRP, which is awesome Um, and I'm seeing a lot more of them to store. So I assume if we're getting more stock here in the US They're obviously getting more stock of the switch in well Japan So an article came across my desk today that said that Nintendo has apparently upped their Switch production to 2 million units worldwide per month So their production is somehow hitting a 2 million per month Which or extrapolated over 12 months would be 24 million units So we know Nintendo's forecast they have consistently stuck to the we are going to produce 10 million units this fiscal year now on October 30th They have a new earnings call a new six month report kind of a halfway point For this fiscal year and there is where they would do things like update their forecast So while they've been sticking to the 10 million, this is the first time they could officially upgrade that forecast So they can up to 12 14 15 or crazily enough 20 although Based on the fact they have shortages for this first six months. I don't think 20 million is realistic But let's get into this report. It comes from I digit times now should be noted I did your times reports exclusively on they make English reports of Asian news and it's It's kind of up in the air that their reputation is kind of like this and you'll see that as I read this report because There's some facts in here that I know they have wrong Unless they happen to have insiders at Nintendo that know what's gonna happen at this meeting on the 30th But let's just get into the report and it says a Nintendo has recently raised its orders for the Nintendo switch to 2 million units a month because of the product's surging demand and the vendor is Expected to be able to achieve its annual shipment target of 20 million units for 2017 So as I said note like it's 10 million units officially So that you might sort of that a red flag, but we'll continue and they said this is according to sources from the upstream supply chain And then they have a quote here since Nintendo switch reportedly will begin selling in China Market in early 2018 the source believes that the devices shipments may rise further next year now It is important to note about that mark is that Nintendo has kind of sort of Publicly denied that they're going to go into China in early 2018, but again, we're not too early 2018 yet They might just want to put a kibosh on it so they could do a big official announcement for it We don't really know what Nintendo's plans in China are Anyways going on the article says by the end of June 2017 Nintendo had already sold 4.7 million switches that is a fact And the strong performance has prompted Nintendo to increase the supply of the games console Obviously they could they were selling out all summer Then they have another quote here says the game console is currently in short supply in Japan And it will not be available in Taiwan until December 2017. I double-checked that that is happening It's coming to Taiwan in December With the launch in China has not been officially scheduled see it's really weird because earlier they said it's coming up early 2018 Another say it's not officially so it's like they recognize their error in their own reporting I don't know it the IGD times is weird and again, they're translating stuff from Asia Maybe some things are lost in translation Anyways, they want to say China lifted the ban on game consoles in early 2014 Microsoft starting selling the Xbox in China at the end of 2014 and Sony released its PlayStation in early 2015 in 2016 China's games console sales grew 56.7% on year a growth higher than the worldwide average according to China's official figures And then it goes on to say that Nintendo has also recently partnered with Tencent to add one of the China based player games To the switches platform, and this is 100% true. This was announced in their last Nintendo Direct Moving on the sources also pointed out that the switch shortages are mainly due to tight supplies Of key components including DRAM Interesting the first time we've heard that that's one of the components that are being shorted And it has nothing to do with defective components or issues on its assembly again We've never heard that they are having those kind of issues. It says the quit this the quitch The switch is currently manufactured by Foxconn and Japan based Hoseidon with Foxconn supplying over 50% of the overall volume But ODMs such as Pegatron technology and Winstron are trying to win orders for the game console Pegatron has stationed a team near Nintendo's headquarters looking to persuade the Japanese based company So in other words It sounds like Ignoring some of the factual inaccuracies that this bad boy right here this Nintendo switch I'm holding in my hand not so they don't sell a version with both blue joy-cons, but This bad boy is going to sell like gangbusters this holiday Nintendo's planning for it And they have up production to a point that they are can hit two million units per month Which is an insane production volume that that's Probably what Nintendo should have been doing all summer. They might have sold every unit I don't know they still haven't caught up in Japan I even heard with the increase to 70,000 sales this past week There were still lotteries being held in Japan So Japan is still extremely supplied in the strain not so much here in the u.s Demand seems to be finally have met, you know have been met officially You know, I talked about it in the past with the snes classic nintendo's Combining scalpers by meeting demand. Well, they technically haven't met demand just quite yet They've just done a better job than the nes classic But they have now officially met demand with switch with how easy it is to get your hands on one so Now the question remains What is nintendo going to do with this moving forward and Are they really going to invade in china in some time next year? And I say invade they're not taking over Well, you know what I mean releasing the switch in china because that's obviously going to put even more simply You know strain on the supply chain Now what's also interesting in here is that nintendo has other companies competing to make units of this and that's only going to help nintendo Really really up production in 2018 if they need to should they launch in china And should they see a huge success chain in china? Especially if they're partnered with tensen which is like the biggest gaming company in china All their games like the biggest most popular games in china nintendo is getting one of those games Which is very league of legends like which there's nothing wrong with that. Uh, those mobiles are fun So obviously we have to sit back and consider the facts nintendo Has likely up production have they hit the two million mark? I don't know That's what this report is claiming and with the factual inaccuracies and the contradictions inside the report I don't blame you if you want to dismiss it But I don't know that it's that easy to dismiss because obviously i think nintendo's With the popularity of the device is going to have companies competing to make more of these units for nintendo And on top of that nintendo needed to up production and they're starting to meet demand Uh in wake of super mario odyssey releasing in less than a month at end of this month Super mario odyssey is going to be here and that's going to be a huge hit It might cause the switch to sell out again And this is before we get to the end of november where they're going to be selling out Probably again around black friday and obviously they still have a late, you know Hopefully hit release and xenoblade chronicles 2 on december 1st Uh nintendo this is ignoring games like skyrim and doom And fire emma warriors and all the games nintendo has releasing in between this whole mess held We've got la noir coming on the 14th of november things are going nuts right now And i am thrilled for nintendo this is just showing that Not only are sales backing up the success of the system nintendo's production is finally backing up the success as well Why they had issues getting this production ramped up in the summer We all know that there's been in the worldwide nan shortages and now over here and according to this report DRAM shortages i don't know how true that is but with companies competing to get nintendo's business These shortages are starting to vanish and i couldn't be more thrilled for all you guys out there hoping to get a switch So yeah, i just wanted to let you know that nintendo is ramping things up Uh regardless if this report is 100 accurate or accurate at all We already know based on our own stock situation that nintendo has done something and we can't wait till october 30th When nintendo will finally tell us If they're going to up their prediction because if they're going to still stick to the 10 million Then this report was probably a bunch of hot wash. 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