{"id":103836,"date":"2019-11-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/doug_bowser_says_more_female_consumers_are_buying_the_switch_lite"},"modified":"2019-11-16T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T05:00:00","slug":"doug-bowser-says-more-female-consumers-are-buying-the-switch-lite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/16\/doug-bowser-says-more-female-consumers-are-buying-the-switch-lite\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Bowser Says More Female Consumers Are Buying The Switch Lite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a8d6a9c2a630f\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a8d6a9c2a630f\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Switch Lite\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a8d6a9c2a630f\/switch-lite.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a8d6a9c2a630f\/switch-lite.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Switch Lite\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that Nintendo wants to expand its audience with its smaller and more affordable Switch Lite system.<\/p>\n<p>The company president Shuntaro Furukawa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/switch_lite_is_generating_its_own_demand_without_negatively_impacting_the_original_system\">recently revealed<\/a> registrations for the new model had a higher percentage of female users and also said there was evidence of a &#8220;good number of consumers&#8221; purchasing the Lite as their second device.<\/p>\n<p>The Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser has noticed this trend as well. Here&#8217;s what he had to say during an interview with Fortune:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re seeing a higher percent of female consumers buying Nintendo Switch Lite than buy the flagship. We see Lite as a great opportunity for us to expand with that audience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While he didn&#8217;t explain why this might be happening, he did reiterate the comments Furukawa made during Nintendo&#8217;s latest financial results briefing, by stating how the Lite was &#8220;absolutely&#8221; aiming to expand the Switch audience:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our intent with Nintendo Switch Lite is absolutely to reach a more expanded audience and to do so by offering a more dedicated gaming device for those that were really looking for that experience.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The first Switch Lite sales figures arrived at the end of October, revealing the device (as of 30th September) had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/nintendo_switch_has_now_sold_41_67_million_units_worldwide_first_switch_lite_totals_revealed\">shifted<\/a> 1.95 million units. At that point, the new system had only been on the market for ten days. To date, Switch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/nintendo_switch_has_now_sold_36_87_million_units_could_pass_snes_total_by_christmas\">sales combined<\/a> have surpassed 36.87 million units.<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you or anyone you know pick up a Switch Lite on release? Leave a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that Nintendo wants to expand its audience with its smaller and more affordable Switch Lite system. The company president Shuntaro Furukawa recently revealed registrations for the new model had a higher percentage of female users and also said there was evidence of a &#8220;good number of consumers&#8221; purchasing the Lite as their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}