You can play all those games on a Wii U. The switch is an underpowered piece of junk you cannot compare it to a PS4. I feel like Nintendo did The Gaming Community a great Injustice for releasing such an underpowered system in 2017. If I ever do pick one up it will be after many price drops that is for sure.

@AREAWARLORD

"You can play all those games on a Wii U."

No you can't.

I don't know if your ignorant or misinformed but only BotW and MK8 can be played on Wii U. All of the other titles mentioned coming to Switch are not coming to the Wii U.

Switch is more powerful than Wii U. You call it underpowered and then suggest playing the games on an even less powerful dying console?

There is nothing "junk" about Switch.

What do you want them to name? Team Di*k vs Team P****? Jesus christ. Have you even try the game yet before dismissing it as a kiddie game?

Oh and Japanese market is a joke? Smh.

Yea the Japanese market is a joke. The west makes better games. Only kidtendo fans think otherwise. Yea I played it. With my friend's 9 year old. It's a childish game

I'm 47. Having a ball playing Zelda and Mario Kart on Switch. Blueraven, I seriously hope I'm never as "grown up" as you.

The waiting mentality is justified. For me I need a couple games that blow me away before I'll bite. With mario + rabbids on top of Zelda and also steamworld dig 2 I feel the system is worth it to me. With the x1 I still am waiting, sunset overdrive and we happy few both look good but are not enough and the waiting turned out to be the right move as Microsoft has already moved on from gaming to now just selling boxes

Do you have proof of this "fake demand"...no? Oh right, that's because your fake demand is completely made up. Then you are trying to cite Gamestop, the most greedy and untrust worthy company, about shipments but say they have bundles available for pre-order. LOL how dumb are you, Gamestop does this with EVERY highly sought product. During Holiday last year then never ONCE got in PSVRs but had plenty of VR Holiday Bundles available for 6-800. That wasn't Sony who was doing that, it was Gamestop.

But please try harder with your conspiracy theories. I need a good laugh.

They do this for everything they've released since the launch of the Wii U. 3DS Games like Fire Emblem, Wii U games like Breath of the Wild, Amiibos, NES Classic, the Switch, Switch controllers, and apparently the SNES Classic in Europe and soon to be the SNES Classic in the US.

What more proof do you want? You think that Nintendo just sucks that bad at gauging demand after having this issue dozens of times, when the rest of the gaming world rarely runs out of stock for anything? Crash in Europe is the first time I've even heard of another publisher having issues.

If they make 1mil console's and the console costs 250$ each. There is a 250mil pile of systems in a warehouse. After the failure of WiiU it makes sense that they are money contious. The factories that produce them make a certain amount, they set the amount by contract, not sure bow long a contract lasts but could be a year. With Apple competing for parts adjusting the contract could be difficult

Nintendo said that....

That doesn't mean every Nintendo fan has to agree with them though. Did Nintendo say they're not competing with Microsoft or Sony and then turn around and say they're losing to the competition due to market constraints? Did the writer of this article say that Nintendo doesn't compete against Sony or Microsoft?

Iwdont hate Nintendo, myself, but have more issues with them and how they treat gamers and, especially, their die had fans.

Zelda is one of my favourite series and Metroid Prime is probably my favourite game in many ways. I admire the first party stuff and accept their importance to gaming.

What I do not like is the deliberate shortages that always lead to true fans being conned by scalpers. The unseemly debacle over NES Mini is set to be happily repeated with the SNES version. Millions ere happy to buy these things yet Ninty let them down happy just for brand awareness. These are many of the people that always support Ninty, as I always have, yet do they deserve us?

Sure, its about money but there are wrong ways to do it and they consistently let consumers down this way. Hell, theres even been Switch shortages when theyre trying to build user base.

Add in the high number of ports from Wii U which we bought last year or whatever and despite sime great looking stuff coming theres still little third party support, they still have no respect for consumers and still have the best, most loyal and imaginative fans in gaming. I dont hate Ninty, I live them but need them to be a better company.

Personally, though it will hurt me some, I doubt Im willing to keep supporting Nintendo in future if they cant stop this shortage bollox. So sick of people making a quick buck off Nintys lack of respect for its fanbase.

Can't believe people are still defending these "not fake" hardware shortages.

To everyone thinking Nintendo is not holding back but is also loaded qith cash and smart as a business and capable as a manufacturer... WHY ARE NINTENDO "unable" TO MEET DEMAND?
Look at Sony selling over 1 million PS4s in 24 hours. PS4 is still selling at a rate over 1 million units a month (when looking at the current total sales and months on the market).

Switch is selling almost at the same rate as PS4 in the short term... But why is this system so short on supply? PS4 was not only meeting demand (even after a brief shortage) after launch, but has been meeting demand.

Cell phone manufacturers meet demand and can sell ten times the number of units in a month.
In the words of Reggie Fils-Aime WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU -- NINTENDO!

Splatoon, Monster hunter , Mario on the way. Its going to gain crazy momentum.

@ EddieNX. I don't want your hypothesizing. I want facts. Where did you get the 4.2m figure from?

do your own research, you want me to me to spoonfeed u sum mashed banana as well. I believe the actual figure was just under 4.2m. Switch vs Wiiu VG charts the article is on N4G right now.

Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-

Timezone thing maybe.... RIP