Forecasts are down 10% from fiscal year 2021
There are some Nintendo supply chain issues coming up, the company has warned, and it’ll directly impactSwitch hardwareavailability.
Financial outlet Nikkei is reportingthat Nintendo will be pushing roughly 20 million estimated Switch consoles for the current fiscal year (a 10% decrease from the year prior), which runs from May 16, 2025, through August 08, 2025. Nintendo aims to publish this info on May 10 publicly, but before then, we have the rundown on how the global supply chain has impacted the company. The situation expects to be complicated by the current global landscape (amid a lockdown in Shanghai, China) on top of all of the happenings of the last few years.
The reason is obvious, and the same issue that’s impacting every other electronics company (and car manufacturers, and so on): semiconductor shortages and general logistics/global supply chain issues, from shipping to manufacturing. Despite all this, Nintendo did manage to secure quite a lot of hardware to peddle, more than their competition: Sony’s PS5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S.
Nintendo supply chain issues are forcing their hand with software
Nikkei notes that as a result of Nintendo supply chain hardware issues, Nintendo is internally pushing for more software sales. The company has said as much recently, and is currently configuringtheir plan to have “evergreen” software titlesguide them through troubled times like this. We might see moresudden launches likeXenoblade Chronicles 3or more delays in the future.
