{"id":117773,"date":"2020-09-09T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/rumour_nintendo_is_ramping_up_switch_production_again"},"modified":"2020-09-09T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T08:30:00","slug":"rumour-nintendo-is-ramping-up-switch-production-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/09\/rumour-nintendo-is-ramping-up-switch-production-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Nintendo Is Ramping Up Switch Production (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/28ce31048c962\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/28ce31048c962\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Nintendo Switch\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/28ce31048c962\/nintendo-switch.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/28ce31048c962\/nintendo-switch.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"464\" alt=\"Nintendo Switch\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-09-09\/nintendo-said-to-boost-switch-production-by-another-20\">Bloomberg<\/a> has reported that Nintendo is looking to increase Switch production, upping its previous total of 25 million units in 2020 to a whopping 30 million units.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Nintendo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/nintendo_will_boost_switch_production_to_combat_global_shortages\">boosted production<\/a> in August to 25 million for the year in order to cope with demand triggered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/switch_production_has_almost_recovered_from_coronavirus_difficulties_says_nintendo\">ongoing COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>, which showcases just how successful Nintendo console has been during 2020.<\/p>\n<p>While Nintendo&#8217;s release slate has been a little less busy than in previous years, the company has had a global smash hit in the form of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a><\/strong>, a title which has sold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/animal_crossing_new_horizons_has_sold_over_22_million_copies\">22 million copies<\/a> so far (and that&#8217;s August&#8217;s figures \u2013 it&#8217;s no doubt even more now) and has caused a flood of new Switch hardware purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Switch has now sold 61.44 million hardware units worldwide as of June 30th, according to Nintendo, and has already surpassed the lifetime sales of systems such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/yep_the_switch_has_now_outsold_the_nes\">NES<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/nintendo_switch_has_now_sold_36_87_million_units_could_pass_snes_total_by_christmas\">SNES, GameCube and N64<\/a>. It is also rumoured that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/guide-nintendo-switch-pro-everything-we-know-so-far-4k-visuals-nvidia-tegra-and-release-date\">Switch Pro<\/a> model will launch in 2021, which will give Nintendo&#8217;s hybrid hardware even more momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg has reported that Nintendo is looking to increase Switch production, upping its previous total of 25 million units in 2020 to a whopping 30 million units. According to the report, Nintendo boosted production in August to 25 million for the year in order to cope with demand triggered by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which [&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-117773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117773","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=117773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}