{"id":890803,"date":"2025-12-22T20:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/switch-2-wont-suffer-from-component-shortages-nintendo-says"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:42:03","slug":"switch-2-wont-suffer-from-component-shortages-nintendo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/switch-2-wont-suffer-from-component-shortages-nintendo-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch 2 won&#8217;t suffer from component shortages, Nintendo says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/switch-2-wont-suffer-from-component-shortages-nintendo-says.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nNintendo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendo-switch-2-everything-we-know\">Switch 2<\/a> won&#8217;t be hit by the same component shortages that blighted the launch of other recent consoles and led to months of product scarcity and scalping. <\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking to investors this week, Nintendo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/pdf\/2024\/qa2406e.pdf\">said<\/a> it had now &#8220;resolved&#8221; the issue which had seen it unable to manufacture enough Switch 1 hardware to meet demand in previous years. Both Sony, with PlayStation, and Microsoft, with Xbox, faced similar shortages for their own parts. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;That situation has now been resolved,&#8221; Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said of Switch 1 stock. &#8220;As for the<br \/>\nsuccessor to Nintendo Switch, at present we do not think shortages of components will significantly affect production.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/switch-2-wont-suffer-from-component-shortages-nintendo-says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/switch-2-wont-suffer-from-component-shortages-nintendo-says\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo&#8217;s Switch 2 won&#8217;t be hit by the same component shortages that blighted the launch of other recent consoles and led to months of product scarcity and scalping. Speaking to investors this week, Nintendo said it had now &#8220;resolved&#8221; the issue which had seen it unable to manufacture enough Switch 1 hardware to meet demand in previous years. Both Sony, with PlayStation, and Microsoft, with Xbox, faced similar shortages for their own parts. &#8220;That situation has now been resolved,&#8221; Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said of Switch 1 stock. &#8220;As for the successor to Nintendo Switch, at present we do not think shortages of components will significantly affect production.&#8221; Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":890804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[5949],"class_list":["post-890803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-switch-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Switch 2 won&#039;t suffer from component shortages, Nintendo says | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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