Introducing the console PlayStation 5 there was a shortage of manufactured pieces with resellers. Thanks to their bots, they flooded online stores and bought a large number of available pieces, which they then tried to sell at a large profit. Then the PS5 was not available in stores, which forced the players buy console auctions from scalpers. Nintendo is taking this issue very seriously and is not underestimating it when the Switch successor is launched.
Thanks to the great success of the current Switch, the Japanese company doesn't have to rush to release a new console. Switch games continue to sell well. Nintendo is thus taking steps so that potential buyers do not have to resort to resellers. They should get to the console even without them. How?
As Nintendo's president, Shuntaro Furukawa wants to make sure there are enough units so that everyone can easily buy the new hardware in stores. That is called meet the demand, which no one has really succeeded in so far. In last years especially due to the shortage of semiconductors. Fortunately for Nintendo, this problem has passed. In addition, Nintendo was able to deal with it even in the case of the production of the current Switch, which, of course, Furukawa did not forget to remind.
“In addition, we are also considering whether we can take other measures to the extent permitted by law and taking into account the circumstances of individual regions,” Furukawa added.
The successor to the Nintendo Switch will be announced later this fiscal year. So by the end of March 2025 at the latest.