President Furukawa believes the corporate has discovered a potential answer.
The specter of Swap 2 looms massive as Nintendo’s fiscal yr continues its trudge to March 2025. Firm President Shuntaro Furukawa has beforehand indicated that it’s inside that timeframe that Nintendo will lastly make an official announcement in regards to the successor to Swap. Whereas followers wait with baited breath for the reveal, one concern on the minds of many is how the corporate will deal with the difficulty of scalpers. Scalpers have been a persistent drawback inside the online game neighborhood for years, and absolutely nobody is involved in spending extra cash to buy the subsequent Nintendo console.
In an interview translated by IGN, Furukawa states that Nintendo plans to avoid scalpers by merely producing sufficient of the console to satisfy shopper demand. One of many obstacles that Nintendo confronted throughout this present console era was a scarcity of sure key elements wanted to fabricate Swap. It appears that evidently this concern has been alleviated, in line with Furukawa:
Though we had been unable to provide ample portions of Nintendo Swap {hardware} final yr and the yr earlier than attributable to a scarcity of semiconductor elements, this case has now been resolved. Right now, we don’t consider that the scarcity of elements could have a big affect on the manufacturing of the successor mannequin.
This at the least offers followers some hope that when the so-called Swap 2 involves shops, it received’t be in scarce provide. Hopefully it will certainly forestall scalpers from ruining the enjoyable when the console lastly launches.
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Supply: IGN