The console reaches a state of lack of supply in the Japanese country, as Nintendo had warned in an official statement.
Nintendo Switch has sold out in the official My Nintendo Store in Japan. As newspapers such as Reuters reported and later confirmed by Nintendo itself in a statement, Wuhan's coronavirus was going to affect the production of the console, at least in Japan. Now, the supply is insufficient to respond to all demand.
As reported by the Japanese Nintendo portal, there are no Nintendo Switch units available for purchase on that website; Nor does the set with Minecraft. Also, reservations for the Nintendo Switch set with Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been delayed. There are only units, still, of Nintendo Switch Lite.
Nintendo Switch, sold out in a store in Akihabara, Tokyo, last summer of 2017
In principle, there will be no supply problems in the West
The outbreak, which has already been diagnosed in more than 42,600 people in China with more than 1,000 deaths in total, is causing technology giants with their main production headquarters in this country to temporarily close their offices, which completely paralyzes such production and inevitably affects the estimated delivery dates of all planned units.
Japan is the main market affected by the coronavirus on Nintendo and Nintendo Switch; Although it is not the only limited product, it is also the Ring Fit peripheral. It is expected that, in the coming weeks, the situation will normalize so that the situation of lack of stock does not affect the second quarter, where Nintendo expects to distribute several million more units after the launch of the new iteration of Animal Crossing.
If we stick only to the sales reported last week in Japan (Famitsu, week from January 27 to February 2), Nintendo Switch sold more than 54,800 units; while Nintendo Switch Lite, the family's only portable model, did the same with more than 21,000 units. Several sources point out that stock problems will not affect the North American and European market in the medium term, since the supply is already covered with the production dispatched in recent weeks.
