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TOKYO -- Nintendo will ramp up output of the Switch to about 30 million units this fiscal year, Nikkei has learned, marking an all-time high for the flagship gaming device in a bid to capitalize on continuing stay-at-home demand.
Since debuting worldwide in 2017, the Switch has sold roughly 80 million units as of the end of 2020. Combined with this fiscal year's projected totals, sales of the device would reach 110 million units, eclipsing the numbers attained by the Wii console. Nintendo appears to have broken a new consolidated profit record in fiscal 2020. Such an earnings report would echo the results from fiscal 2007, when the company released its two hit devices the Wii and the DS.
"We have experienced higher-than-expected demand this year as well, and there is a possibility that certain products will be in short supply, especially in Japan," said Furukawa.