{"id":10043,"date":"2022-08-03T20:41:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T18:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2022\/08\/03\/nintendo-says-chip-shortage-caused-lower-q1-fy2023-switch-sales\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T22:02:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T20:02:42","slug":"nintendo-says-chip-shortage-caused-lower-q1-fy2023-switch-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2022\/08\/03\/nintendo-says-chip-shortage-caused-lower-q1-fy2023-switch-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Says Chip Shortage Caused Lower Q1 FY2023 Switch Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo says that Switch sales for Q1 of the fiscal year 2023 were lower than expected due to the chip shortage. The company has had problems with procuring the necessary components, such as semiconductors, that would allow it to complete production of the Switch as planned. This resulted in the company producing less Switch units than expected, leading to an overall decrease in hardware sales.<br \/>\nAccording to the company\u2019s latest earnings, Nintendo Switch sales are down to 3.43 million units from 4.45 million units the same time last year. A decline of 22.9%. Nintendo also states that games from other software publishers helped drive sales of the Switch in the first quarter of the last fiscal year. Assisting in the higher number of hardware sales.<br \/>\nSoftware sales were also down in the same period. Dropping to 41.41 million units from 45.29 million units a year ago.<br \/>\nBeyond Q1 FY2023, Nintendo Switch sales could improve to hit targets<br \/>\nAlthough hardware sales were down in the first quarter of the fiscal year 2023, it may be possible for Nintendo to bounce back. The company states that it expects the procurement of components to improve from \u201clate Summer towards Autumn.\u201d This should give it a \u201cclearer outlook\u201d of Nintendo Switch production for the rest of the year.<br \/>\nIt also plans to utilize \u201cappropriate means of shipment\u201d to help deliver a larger number of Switch units to consumers.<br \/>\nNintendo Switch OLED was the highest selling model<br \/>\nWhen it comes to the different Switch variants, the OLED model was the highest selling. Nintendo reports that out of the total 3.43 million units Switch units sold, 1.52 million of those were the Switch OLED. The regular Switch meanwhile accounted for 1.32 million units, and the Switch Lite accounted for 0.59 million units.<br \/>\nIn terms of software, Nintendo had 4 games that were able to reach more than a million units sold for Q1 FY 2023. Nintendo Switch Sports was the biggest hit at 4.84 million units sold. Next up was Mario Strikers: Battle League at 1.91 million units. Followed closely by Kirby And The Forgotten Land at 1.88 million units, and finally Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at 1.48 million units. All games were first-party titles.<br \/>\nThe post Nintendo Says Chip Shortage Caused Lower Q1 FY2023 Switch Sales appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Nintendo-Switch-OLED-2.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo says that Switch sales for Q1 of the fiscal year 2023 were lower than expected due to the chip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10044,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10045,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043\/revisions\/10045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}