Nintendo engineers are reviewing the Nintendo Switch hardware to find alternative components, in the face of chip shortages in factories.
The situation in the factories is more than worrying. You already know that there is a chip and semiconductor shortage to make consoles and electronic gadgets, and Nintendo Switch is also affected.
At latest income report (Switch has already sold almost 93 million consoles) the president of Nintendo regretted the not being able to meet the high demand of the hybrid console around the world.
Shuntaro Furukawa stated that chip shortage situation is far from over, although, fortunately, game sales continue to increase without suffering any impact.
As a measure before supply problems, Nintendo Senior Executive Ko Shiot said engineers were Checking out the Nintendo Switch hardware, looking for alternative components to manufacture it.
In other words, you are looking for a new way of making consoles no need for these chips. The worrying situation has caused Nintendo to lower its production targets to 24 million.
On the hypothetical successor to Switch, Furukawa confirmed that will come in the present century, but that the hybrid is still in the middle of its life cycle. There will be no Switch Pro.
”Regarding the next game system, we are considering many different things, but when it comes to concept and release time, there is nothing we can share at the moment.”
On the positive side, Shigeru Miyamoto claimed that software development and other avenues of entertainment They have not been affected by the situation, as there is a large user base who already have a Nintendo Switch.
”With so many consumers around the world who have already purchased a Nintendo Switch, the situation has had no major effect on software development.”
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This article was published in Hobby Consolas by Ángel Morán Santiago.