Amid outsized demand from makers of smartphones and electrified vehicles, the company is seeing "intermittent shortages of various parts," even transistors and other commodity-grade components, said a Nintendo procurement executive. Nintendo purchasing managers are going to emerging markets in Southeast Asia and other places in search of components, but it is unclear where the company has secured the needed parts.
In preparation for the end-of-the-year shopping season, Nintendo has apparently raised monthly production of the Switch to roughly 2 million units in October, about twice as much as during the summer. "We want to make sure stores have our products in stock," Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima said Monday.