As if finding a Switch wasn’t already difficult enough during the Crisis.
One Switch isn’t enough for many households. Nintendo exposes in a Q&A with investors that, in the year to March 31st, around 20 percent of Switch units were sold to households that already have one. That works out to around 5.5 million consoles, as Gamasutra notes.
There are some possible reasons for that. The crisis, of course, forced too many people to playing video games last year, so families might have been playing the likes of Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit together on separate consoles. Some people have purchased a Switch Lite to use solely as an on-the-go machine while their standard Switch stays docked. And maybe, just maybe, some people bought a second Switch as an expensive way to resolve Joy-Con drift issues.
"Going forward, we expect demand for multiple systems per household will increase even as hardware unit sales uplift," Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said on the call. "By region, significant sales increase is continuing in Asia, and we believe there is still room for sufficient uplift of new demand in Europe and the United States, considering the sizes of those populations."
It’ll be interesting to see how much that percentage changes over the next year with the crisis finally easing. Nintendo’s also widely expected to release a more powerful Switch this year and many current Switch owners will perhaps be looking to upgrade.
Elsewhere, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, in addition to being a massive hit in its own right, prompted Switch newcomers to try out other key Nintendo franchises like Zelda and Mario, according to Furukawa. He also noted that Nintendo is still dealing with shortages and production issues with the Switch, which he said is in the middle of its lifecycle. Furukawa added that shipments to Europe were also delayed by the Suez Canal blockage.
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