You’re going to be meeting different price points, you’re going to be meeting different types of consumers, you’re going to have the newest, freshest content available on Nintendo Switch, you’ve got a thousand-game library available on Nintendo 3DS, plus some key new ones coming. And in our view, the Nintendo 3DS and the Nintendo Switch are going to live side-by-side. We’ve already announced games that will be launching in the first couple quarters of this year. What does the launch of Switch mean for 3DS?įils-Aime: 3DS has a long life in front of it. Because again, how many times have you purchased the original Super Mario Bros.? We thought that the consumer that already had a Wii or a Wii U and had purchased those games once or twice already, we didn’t think that they’d buy the NES Classic. I think that incremental demand is what surprised us. But what we also see here in the Americas is that we’ve sold a lot to who just saw a compact, all-in-one opportunity to get the 30 greatest games from the NES generation. And certainly we sold a lot of systems to that consumer. The challenge for us is that with this particular system, we thought honestly that the key consumer would be between 30 and 40 years old, with kids, who had stepped away from gaming for some period of time. We know the concern.ĭid the surprising, to you, demand for NES Classic open your eyes to understanding the popularity of classic Nintendo products in this day and age?įils-Aime: We know the popularity of our classic games. With the ongoing level of supply, the ongoing demand is going to be met. The good news, at least for consumers in the Americas, is we’re going to continue to make the NES Classic available. What happened with NES Classic is that was a situation where the global demand was well in excess of anything we had anticipated, and that’s what created shortages. That’s how we build our supply chain, that’s how we think through the amount of product that’s available. Our focus is making sure that the consumer who wants to buy a Nintendo Switch can buy a Nintendo Switch. This is essentially the first three weeks of March.
So what I would say is this: Two million for essentially the first month is a huge number, especially when you look and see that this is not peak seasonality. From what I’ve read, the concern seems to stem from the lack of ability to buy NES Classic. I know, because I read the boards and I read the comments, that there is concern about supply.
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