If Nintendo wants to conquer the world with the different Switch models, the French market is doing so well that it could even break records.
Such is the success of the Switch that the portable console could soon outsell the Wii, which we thought was very solid and durable. Interviewed by the website of Figaro, the President of Nintendo France Stéphane Lavoué was indeed delighted to have passed the 6 million console sales mark in France and now intends to break the home record.
Switch, did you say switch?
With 6.1 million switches already sold (4.9 of them for the 2017 “Vanilla” model alone) in our latitudes, Nintendo is only 200,000 units away from the record set by the Wii in the mid-1990s in 2000. On Le Figaro’s microphone, Stéphane Lavoué even takes the liberty of anticipating the next big steps in the life of the console:
It will surpass the Wii Scores by spring and we are targeting 7 million total sales by the end of 2022. That would be a historic achievement..
We also learn that sales don’t seem to be slowing down, even though the Switch will soon be celebrating its five-year anniversary. Nintendo claims to have sold 1.3 million consoles in 2021, down slightly from 2020’s record 1.4 million. And thanks for the containment.
But because not everything can be as rosy in the wonderful world of Nintendo as it was with Kirby, the President of Nintendo France nevertheless admits a weakness. Like all other players in the industry, Nintendo is bearing the brunt of the semiconductor shortage affecting the entire high-tech industry:
There are still clouds on the horizon. The Switch Oled is still hard to find in stores earlier this year and we have no certainty about future supplies..
A console that’s hard to find on the shelf? This reminds of the first Wii Christmas!
