{"id":5335,"date":"2017-11-15T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/game_praises_nintendo_and_talks_of_a_constant_supply_of_stock_for_switch"},"modified":"2017-11-15T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T18:30:00","slug":"game-praises-nintendo-and-talks-of-a-constant-supply-of-stock-for-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/15\/game-praises-nintendo-and-talks-of-a-constant-supply-of-stock-for-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"GAME Praises Nintendo and Talks of &#8216;A Constant Supply of Stock&#8217; for Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Switch Mario.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/game_praises_nintendo_and_talks_of_a_constant_supply_of_stock_for_switch\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/game_praises_nintendo_and_talks_of_a_constant_supply_of_stock_for_switch\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Switch Mario.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo, with the exception of the relatively niche <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_2\">Xenoblade Chronicles 2<\/a><\/strong>, has pushed out its big-selling retail games ahead of the festive shopping season. It&#8217;s also been ramping up its production in order to ensure that retailers have enough Switch systems to meet demand &#8211; now the CEO of GAME in the UK, Martyn Gibbs, spoke positively about the console&#8217;s prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcvuk.com\/articles\/retail\/game-ceo-nintendo-switch-in-constant-supply-but-were-yet-to-hit-christmas-p?utm_source=Adestra&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=GAME%20CEO%3A%20Nintendo%20Switch%20in%20%26%238216%3Bconstant%20supply%26%238217%3B%20but%20we%26%238217%3Bre%20yet%20to%20hit%20Christmas%20peak&amp;utm_campaign=New%20MCV%20XML%202017\">MCV<\/a> about stock for the retailer, Gibbs praised Nintendo for its efforts in turning around early supply issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got enough Switch coming in on a week-by-week basis, Nintendo needs to take some real credit operationally for how they&#8217;ve managed to work this through.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve now got a constant supply of stock coming into the business on a weekly basis, Don&#8217;t get me wrong I don&#8217;t have [Distribution Centre] stuffed full of 100,000 units, but we do have a good, regular supply from Nintendo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gibbs also addressed the perspective that Switch may have &#8216;peaked early&#8217; for the shopping season with the timing of Super Mario Odyssey&#8217;s launch; he disagreed, expected it to be a hot product over the next six weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure on that, it&#8217;s probably going to be the number one tech-toy for peak, so I think across those two spectrums and across such a wide-ranging base of gamers who all want to play Nintendo Switch I think we&#8217;re clear it&#8217;s got great demand, the absolute peak of that demand I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re anywhere near yet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More positive vibes around the Switch, and it&#8217;s pleasing to see retailers sharing confidence in the system. It could certainly be a lucrative festive period for Nintendo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo, with the exception of the relatively niche Xenoblade Chronicles 2, has pushed out its big-selling retail games ahead of the festive shopping season. It&#8217;s also been ramping up its production in order to ensure that retailers have enough Switch systems to meet demand &#8211; now the CEO of GAME in the UK, Martyn Gibbs, [&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-5335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335","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=5335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}