Nintendo says it’s ‘taking risks’ to meet Switch 2 demand

Nintendo is gearing up for the Switch 2’s launch sometime in 2025, and president Shuntaro Furukawa says that the company is “taking risks and proceeding with production so that we can meet as much demand as possible,” according to a machine translation of an earnings Q&A.

The company had some trouble keeping the original Switch in stock during its very successful 2017 launch. Nintendo isn’t going to reveal its specific Switch 2 production plans until it releases the business plan for its next fiscal year (which begins in April), Furukawa says, but the company wants to gauge demand following the Switch 2-focused Nintendo Direct on April 2nd.

“As with the Nintendo Switch, we believe it will not be easy to rapidly increase production capacity, but based on our past experience, we will make preparations to respond as quickly as possible,” he says.

The Q&A has a few other interesting tidbits:

But there are still a lot of unanswered questions about the Switch 2, and it seems like Nintendo is going to keep a pretty tight lid on things ahead of the Switch 2 Direct. I’m just happy that the Switch 2 looks like a bigger, more refined Switch.

As part of its earnings, Nintendo announced that the Nintendo Switch has sold more than 150 million units, meaning that it’s closing in on surpassing the Nintendo DS.