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Nintendo promises to ramp up Switch production for the holidays

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http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-promises-to-ramp-up-switch-production-for-the-holidays/

Good to see they're doing what they can to get Switches out there.
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PS4always 11 hours ago#2
"holiday" I loathe that..

WHICH holidays? Summer holiday, Summer bank holiday, Autumn bank holiday, Halloween, etc etc?

if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..
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DuranmanX4 11 hours ago#3
PS4always posted...
if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


what about Thanksgiving?
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PS4always 11 hours ago#4
DuranmanX4 posted...
PS4always posted...
if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


what about Thanksgiving?


That too (I didn't include it as we don't have it in the UK)
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DuranmanX4 11 hours ago#5
PS4always posted...
DuranmanX4 posted...
PS4always posted...
if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


what about Thanksgiving?


That too (I didn't include it as we don't have it in the UK)


Well for most Americans, the shopping season starts right after Thanksgiving
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Karmic Dragon2003 11 hours ago#6
PS4always posted...
"holiday" I loathe that..

WHICH holidays? Summer holiday, Summer bank holiday, Autumn bank holiday, Halloween, etc etc?

if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


Let's be honest, people would get offended if they said Christmas.
CreviceCretin - Mario games are for little kids grow up and kill something.
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DuranmanX4 11 hours ago#7
Karmic Dragon2003 posted...
PS4always posted...
"holiday" I loathe that..

WHICH holidays? Summer holiday, Summer bank holiday, Autumn bank holiday, Halloween, etc etc?

if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


Let's be honest, people would get offended if they said Christmas.


Or possibly the fact a major reason for increased shipping is so people can get a Switch for Odyssey, which doesn't release even close to Christmas

if the Switch doesn't restock until Christmas, that's a bad sign

it should honestly be happening as soon as Labor Day
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PS4always 11 hours ago#8
Karmic Dragon2003 posted...
PS4always posted...
"holiday" I loathe that..

WHICH holidays? Summer holiday, Summer bank holiday, Autumn bank holiday, Halloween, etc etc?

if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


Let's be honest, people would get offended if they said Christmas.


f*** them, I'm tired of people being offending by non-offensive things, seems its the flavour of the month atm, lets find something to be offended by. ffs
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Andros-2K7 11 hours ago#9
Karmic Dragon2003 posted...
PS4always posted...
"holiday" I loathe that..

WHICH holidays? Summer holiday, Summer bank holiday, Autumn bank holiday, Halloween, etc etc?

if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


Let's be honest, people would get offended if they said Christmas.


Umm... Why?
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freedumbdclxvi 11 hours ago#10
PS4always posted...
Karmic Dragon2003 posted...
PS4always posted...
"holiday" I loathe that..

WHICH holidays? Summer holiday, Summer bank holiday, Autumn bank holiday, Halloween, etc etc?

if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


Let's be honest, people would get offended if they said Christmas.


f*** them, I'm tired of people being offending by non-offensive things, seems its the flavour of the month atm, lets find something to be offended by. ffs

You seem offended.
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DuranmanX4 11 hours ago#11
Andros-2K7 posted...
Karmic Dragon2003 posted...
PS4always posted...
"holiday" I loathe that..

WHICH holidays? Summer holiday, Summer bank holiday, Autumn bank holiday, Halloween, etc etc?

if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


Let's be honest, people would get offended if they said Christmas.


Umm... Why?


No one is offended by saying Christmas, certainly not people Nintendo is worried about

Hell, even non-Christian societies and people use the term Christmas

if anything, Christmas has lost any actual religious significance among most people, and entirely refers to a time for gift-giving
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nephalim 11 hours ago#12
DuranmanX4 posted...
Andros-2K7 posted...
Karmic Dragon2003 posted...
PS4always posted...
"holiday" I loathe that..

WHICH holidays? Summer holiday, Summer bank holiday, Autumn bank holiday, Halloween, etc etc?

if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


Let's be honest, people would get offended if they said Christmas.


Umm... Why?


No one is offended by saying Christmas, certainly not people Nintendo is worried about

Hell, even non-Christian societies and people use the term Christmas

if anything, Christmas has lost any actual religious significance among most people, and entirely refers to a time for gift-giving


They mean the gift-giving holidays, obviously.

Jews and even atheists give gifts around Christmastime. Hell, the whole thing is based on the pagan holiday of Yule.
Istolla 11 hours ago#13
PS4always posted...
DuranmanX4 posted...
PS4always posted...
if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


what about Thanksgiving?


That too (I didn't include it as we don't have it in the UK)


That's why they say holidays. Not every country shares the same holidays.
Rasputin77 9 hours ago#14
DuranmanX4 posted...
Christmas has lost any actual religious significance among most people...

I figured for someone who posts so much on this board, you were BOUND to blurt out some completely made-up horse s*** eventually. Thank you for sharing the results of your (I'm sure) well-tested and highly verified research. 

Now, reply for e-peen, and be more careful in the future.
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uberking422 9 hours ago#15
PS4always posted...
Karmic Dragon2003 posted...
PS4always posted...
"holiday" I loathe that..

WHICH holidays? Summer holiday, Summer bank holiday, Autumn bank holiday, Halloween, etc etc?

if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


Let's be honest, people would get offended if they said Christmas.


f*** them, I'm tired of people being offending by non-offensive things, seems its the flavour of the month atm, lets find something to be offended by. ffs

Happy Holidays, broflake.
Xechs 9 hours ago#16
They better even xbox sold 3.34 mil in US from aug to dec. Jan-Jul xbox was only 1.27 mil. PS4 sold 6 (2.8mil US) mil in Nov-Dec alone ww out of the 17.5 mil sales for 2016. 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/201093/revenue-of-the-us-video-game-industry/

US is switch biggest market and it follows a holiday trend.
PS4always 8 hours ago#17
uberking422 posted...
PS4always posted...
Karmic Dragon2003 posted...
PS4always posted...
"holiday" I loathe that..

WHICH holidays? Summer holiday, Summer bank holiday, Autumn bank holiday, Halloween, etc etc?

if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


Let's be honest, people would get offended if they said Christmas.


f*** them, I'm tired of people being offending by non-offensive things, seems its the flavour of the month atm, lets find something to be offended by. ffs

Happy Holidays, broflake.


Congrats on missing the point dumb Yank.
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metroidman18 8 hours ago#18
ramped up production for ramped up demand.

So nothing is gonna change basically?
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LimboStudios 8 hours ago#19
I'll believe when I see it, the moment anyone at any moment can go into Amazon and order a Switch as MSRP, I'll say they fixed the issue.
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Karmic Dragon2003 8 hours ago#20
LimboStudios posted...
I'll believe when I see it, the moment anyone at any moment can go into Amazon and order a Switch as MSRP, I'll say they fixed the issue.


The issue of having created one of the most wanted gaming consoles of all time :(
CreviceCretin - Mario games are for little kids grow up and kill something.
^ 213 people agree that it's ignorance at its finest.
Lol, they're not "ramping up". They probably have a few million units in a warehouse somewhere that they're trickling out to keep the supply low, because for some reason, orchestrated shortages work for them. And then around the holidays, Switches! Switches everywhere! What convenient timing for them to magically have more Switches! Let's be honest, they could ramp up production right now, but they won't.
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Karmic Dragon2003 7 hours ago#22
Christopher Belmont posted...
Lol, they're not "ramping up". They probably have a few million units in a warehouse somewhere that they're trickling out to keep the supply low, because for some reason, orchestrated shortages work for them. And then around the holidays, Switches! Switches everywhere! What convenient timing for them to magically have more Switches! Let's be honest, they could ramp up production right now, but they won't.


Makes sense. Why make more money as a company right? Genius!
CreviceCretin - Mario games are for little kids grow up and kill something.
^ 213 people agree that it's ignorance at its finest.
LimboStudios 7 hours ago#23
Karmic Dragon2003 posted...
LimboStudios posted...
I'll believe when I see it, the moment anyone at any moment can go into Amazon and order a Switch as MSRP, I'll say they fixed the issue.


The issue of having created one of the most wanted gaming consoles of all time :(

um...sure. The Wii's supply problems were nowhere near as bad as this and that was bought in much larger quantities.

Can't you just admit that Nintendo is incompetent in anything other than software, which they mostly excel at? They made stupid, conservative decisions that caused this entire mess, they could've sold like 150% the amount they've sold so far if they got their heads out of their asses and made plenty.

It's been 5 months and you can't get the damn thing at MSRP online. It's either Nintendo doing malicious, immoral business or Nintendo being completely incompetent, and I doubt it's the former, as spiteful and hateful towards their most loyal fans as Nintendo is, I doubt they'd be this stupid intentionally.
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Karmic Dragon2003 7 hours ago#24
LimboStudios posted...
Can't you just admit that Nintendo is incompetent in anything other than software, which they mostly excel at? They made stupid, conservative decisions that caused this entire mess, they could've sold like 150% the amount they've sold so far if they got their heads out of their asses and made plenty.


See, if you'd say this instead of running the artificial scarcity/stockpiling narrative into the ground, you'd probably get a lot more people who agree with you.
CreviceCretin - Mario games are for little kids grow up and kill something.
^ 213 people agree that it's ignorance at its finest.
DuranmanX4 7 hours ago#25
Karmic Dragon2003 posted...
LimboStudios posted...
Can't you just admit that Nintendo is incompetent in anything other than software, which they mostly excel at? They made stupid, conservative decisions that caused this entire mess, they could've sold like 150% the amount they've sold so far if they got their heads out of their asses and made plenty.


See, if you'd say this instead of running the artificial scarcity/stockpiling narrative into the ground, you'd probably get a lot more people who agree with you.


he's a contrarian out for attention, he can't have people agreeing with him

just look at his sig
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LimboStudios 7 hours ago#26
Karmic Dragon2003 posted...
LimboStudios posted...
Can't you just admit that Nintendo is incompetent in anything other than software, which they mostly excel at? They made stupid, conservative decisions that caused this entire mess, they could've sold like 150% the amount they've sold so far if they got their heads out of their asses and made plenty.


See, if you'd say this instead of running the artificial scarcity/stockpiling narrative into the ground, you'd probably get a lot more people who agree with you.

I stopped believing in artificial scarcity when it stopped happening, after like a month, Nintendo does use this pathetic tactic with the Metroid Legacy Edition, NES Classic and SNES Classic and they used it with Switch at the beggining, but after a month it was clear they just didn't make enough Switches and since they're so obsessed with making a profit on each system sold they couldn't just pay up for higher production and outbidding Apple for parts.

Maybe they'll stop bleeding fans when they actually invest some money in keeping those fans happy and understand that these things are fixed by eating short-term costs.
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Bellagio_6 7 hours ago#27
PS4always posted...
"holiday" I loathe that..

WHICH holidays? Summer holiday, Summer bank holiday, Autumn bank holiday, Halloween, etc etc?

if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..

Because anyone with common sense knows that the term "Holidays" refers to the time frame from Thanksgiving to New Years.
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Bellagio_6 7 hours ago#28
freedumbdclxvi posted...
@PS4always posted...
Karmic Dragon2003 posted...
PS4always posted...
"holiday" I loathe that..

WHICH holidays? Summer holiday, Summer bank holiday, Autumn bank holiday, Halloween, etc etc?

if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


Let's be honest, people would get offended if they said Christmas.


f*** them, I'm tired of people being offending by non-offensive things, seems its the flavour of the month atm, lets find something to be offended by. ffs

You seem offended.

He is a snowflake himself apparently.
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Placiibo 7 hours ago#29
The SNES mini situation is not giving me much faith in their production promises.
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derekfishbowl 7 hours ago#30
If they can keep up with demand, then the Switch in one year will outsell the WiiU during its entire lifespan.
PS4always 5 hours ago#31
Bellagio_6 posted...
PS4always posted...
"holiday" I loathe that..

WHICH holidays? Summer holiday, Summer bank holiday, Autumn bank holiday, Halloween, etc etc?

if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..

Because anyone with common sense knows that the term "Holidays" refers to the time frame from Thanksgiving to New Years.


1: Thanksgiving does not exist in the UK
2: You are totally missing the point but I'll assume you're a millennial and as such are limited in your understanding.
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IloveElite 5 hours ago#32
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks "Holidays" is stupid. lol
(I guess it's an American thing)
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CranberryPSO 5 hours ago#33
PS4always, is your point that they should say the Christmas season or something?

The main reason companies don't explicitly say "Christmas" is because too many times, someone has decided to raise a fuss about it and it ends up becoming a PR nightmare.

They just say "Holidays" now because it's just not worth dealing with a PR nightmare when someone decides to get really vocal about it.
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DuranmanX4 2 hours ago#34
CranberryPSO posted...
The main reason companies don't explicitly say "Christmas" is because too many times, someone has decided to raise a fuss about it and it ends up becoming a PR nightmare.

people do say Christmas, when something in particular actually happens during Christmas

People also refer to movies about Christmas, as Christmas movies (sometimes even movies like Diehard)

no one would refer to December 25th as "the Holidays"

problem is, Christmas lasts from December 25 0:00 to December 25 23:59

the Holiday season lasts months, and covers more than just Christmas
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I'd be very surprised if they don't reach 10 million by the end of the year.
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PS4always posted...
"holiday" I loathe that..

WHICH holidays? Summer holiday, Summer bank holiday, Autumn bank holiday, Halloween, etc etc?

if they mean Christmas they should bloody well say Christmas..


Holidays for everything from Christianity to Shinto occur around then. As a non-Christian who celebrates Christmas, allow me to still cordially invite you to apply suction to my genitalia. There are lots and lots of holidays that happen around the Winter solstice, and it's just plain being polite to say "Happy Holidays."
wow the bitter right wingers appeared quickly as soon as someone said holidays, sorry guys, if I want to learn lessons from a fictional messiah who died for our sins I'll watch Dragon Ball Z or the Matrix.
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Happy Mask Man 54 minutes ago#38
Hmm, well, an increased supply for the holiday season is to be expected. It's a matter of how much of an increase we'll be seeing.

3DS, in its first holiday quarter (October to December 2011), shipped 8.36 million units, for a lifetime total of 15.03 million. Its total for that fiscal year was 13.53 million. Nintendo made a forecast of 10 million for this fiscal year for the Switch, lower than the 3DS's in the same timeframe, but they planned to produce more than that. With Switch outpacing the 3DS in sales so far, I think it is likely that we will see an increase in this forecast, possibly by the end of this quarter.

If this article's report of a planned production of 18 million units with readiness to scale up if necessary is accurate, then Nintendo should be ready for a big holiday season. Those are Wii-like numbers.
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ihatepassword 50 minutes ago#39
PS4always posted...

WHICH holidays?

Holidays generally refer to between November and December, with Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Christmas. "Holidays" pretty much always means that.
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CT24 47 minutes ago#40
Nintendo also said they'd do better with the SNES Classic...
ssgoku831 45 minutes ago#41
That would be cool for anyone looking for it.
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