We can’t produce enough to meet the demand that we’re waiting for during the holiday season, said Furukawa. The situation is quite slow now and I don’t know what it will take to get around. The comments were followed by the company’s second quarter results on Thursday, where Nintendo cut its full year Switch sales forecast by 6%, to 24,000 units based on the change in production plan made by the global semiconductor shortage. The Switch has now shipped 92,87 million units since its launch in March 2017 up 3.83 million units since June 30th. However, the price of its second quarter profit rose 22% to 520 billion yen. Although, its total income estimate remains unchanged. While Nintendo may have reduced its hardware sales target, the Switch software forecast set to about 200 million units, based on the sales performance of the first half. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has helped increase hardware and software sales. This successful year made a difficult comparison for the 6th months of the current fiscal year. As of last year, the unit sales have risen for both hardware and software. The cost of hardware sales increased by 4.8 million dollars (six percent since 2012), and software sales totaled 3.7 million dollars (six percent decrease).
