Nintendo Switch could be out of stock all year, GameStop warns
“The demand is incredibly strong,” GameStop COO Tony Bartel said during a recent earnings call. He added that “as soon as we get it into our stores it’s out without hours,” and said that he anticipates GameStop is “going to be chasing supply this entire year.”
On Nintendo’s end, the company has doubled production of the console, with the new goal of shipping 16 million units before March 2018.
“There’s tremendous demand for this,” Bartel said. “And we just don’t know how high it is because eery time we get it out in our stores it’s literally gone.”
Many of these sales are doubtless driven by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which GameStop noted has almost a “1:1 attach” rate. In other words, almost everyone who buys a console also buys Breath of the Wild.
The Nintendo Switch reportedly sold 1.5 million units in its first week. More recent numbers haven’t yet been released.
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Mr_RobotPosted:
Skates Probably just saying that so we make an impulsive purchase. I'm fine with waiting till more games come out and the price slims a bit.
I agree with you man. They could easily ramp up production to demand
IlcamorristaPosted:
How can they say that when theres been numirous amounts of mistakes? I agree with skates on this one.
SkatesPosted:
Probably just saying that so we make an impulsive purchase. I'm fine with waiting till more games come out and the price slims a bit.
ForestPosted:
Still extremely happy with my switch, got friends who are still trying to get one themselves.
HaloPosted:
Hey well, this is somewhat good for Nintendo, in a sense, got more sales than I thought it would.
miller1821Posted:
I have 1 that is unopened since launch day. I thought the prices were going to skyrocket but the most you can get for them is about $100 over retail and that's not worth my time. I am going to be taking mine back to ToysRUs tomorrow and getting a refund. I was expecting a mark-up of over $250 but it just hasn't reached that in my area or on ebay.
DanielPosted:
in stock or not i wouldn't waste my money on one, I thought they were pretty cool until they come out lol.
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