During a meeting with shareholders, Shuntaro Furukawa was very confident about the stock of Nintendo Switch 2 available at launch. According to him, suppliers of components and semiconductors have rebounded after the COVID crisis, which should avoid any shortages.
Last week, Shuntaro Furukawa, CEO of Nintendo, confirmed in a few sentences that the Nintendo Switch 2 is surely the most anticipated console in the history of the Switch. Indeed, it was enough for the latter to announce that the console will be revealed before March 2025 to generate a wave of enthusiasm among fans – and speculation among the most impatient. A nice moment of celebration in short, but which still raised some worrying questions.
The Switch 2 is therefore particularly awaited by players, while the current model has now sold more than 140 million copies. From here, the calculation is simple: will Nintendo’s production have enough shoulders to support the strong demand when the console is released? Or will we experience a shortage similar to that of the PS5 and Xbox Series X at their launch, forcing some players to wait several months to get their hands on them?
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Shuntaro Furukawa already thinks he has the answer to this question and that’s good news. During a meeting with its shareholders, the president of Nintendo was indeed reassuring about Switch 2 stocks upon release. “We are not seeing semiconductor supply issues like those that were occurring until the year before last, and we do not anticipate semiconductor supply to pose a major problem for the launch of console “he indicated.
Indeed, it is clear that the situation is far from being similar to that at the end of 2020, during the launch of the PS5 and Xbox Series . However, as competent as he is, the CEO is not yet planning for the future, and we cannot protect ourselves from a new problem on the production line, or even from a stronger demand than anticipated . Start of response in March 2025, the supposed date of the console’s launch.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz