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Taiwan's upstream supply chain for Nintendo's Switch is expected to see shipments of the game console shrink 25-30% in 2019, according to industry sources.
After enjoying two years of strong sales, the game console is seeing demand approaching saturation and Nintendo has decelerated its order pull-in since the second half of 2018.
Nintendo originally gave the supply chain an estimate of 24 million units of Switch for calendar year 2018, but the actual shipments were less than 20 million, the sources pointed out. However, Nintendo has maintained that it is on course to achieve its shipment target of 20 million units for its fiscal year ending March 31, 2019.
Although the Japan-based gaming firm is planning to release a cheaper version of the game console in 2019, the trend of decelerated order pull-in by Nintendo will continue and shipments for the calendar year 2019 are estimated to be around 14-15 million units.
To maintain the growth, Nintendo is expected to place its focus primarily on software development, the sources said.
Currently, components of Nintendo Switch are stored at the upstream supply chain, waiting to be assembled and shipped with Nintendo's instruction, the sources said. Nintendo is mainly pulling in orders judging by its channel sales and inventory level.
During the year-end holiday period in 2018, Nintendo Switch's sales reached around 278,700 units in Japan and over 6.67 million units in the country since its release, according to research firm figures.
Based on upstream supply chain's estimates, Nintendo so far has sold around 40 million units of Switch worldwide
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本帖最后由 flies 于 2019-1-28 16:36 编辑 ]
