For noen uker siden rapporterte vi om at Nintendo skal øke produksjonen av deres Switch, ifølge kilder. Mange har imidlertid spekulert i om mangelen på konsoller har vært et bevisst grep, og at Nintendo skal ha gjort det for å kunne si at den er så populær at den blir utsolgt hele tiden. I et intervju med Ars Technica forklarar Nintendos senior director of corporate communications, Charlie Scibetta, at det slettes ikke er riktig:

"It's definitely not intentional in terms of shorting the marke. We're making it as fast as we can. We want to get as many units out as we can to support all the software that's coming out right now... our job really is to get it out as quick as we can, especially for this holiday because we want to have units on shelves to support Super Mario Odyssey."

Årsaken til at konsollen er utsolgt er ganske enkelt at Nintendo selv undervurderte interessen:

"We anticipated there was going to be demand for it, but the demand has been even higher than we thought. We had a good quantity for launch, we sold 2.7 million worldwide in that first month, said we're going to have 10 million [more] by the end of the fiscal year... Unfortunately, we're in a situation right now where as quick as it's going into retail outlets it's being snapped up. It's a good problem to have, but we're working very hard to try and meet demand."

Har du blitt overrasket av suksessen til Nintendo Switch, eller har det gått som forventet?