Nintendo saw a year-over-year decline in hardware sales during the fiscal quarter that ended in June. The company attributed this in part to a shortage of components, although other issues such as logistics resulting from successive crises in recent years have also emerged.

In order to increase or at least guarantee Switch sales, Nintendo devised a strategy to ship more units by reducing the console’s packaging. According to the Nikkei, the Big N would prepare for August a new case for your console that takes up 20% less space. With this, he hopes to increase the quantities supplied global improvement of transport efficiency.

The package size reduction comes as the Japanese video game giant expects the situation around component sourcing to improve by the end of this summer or early fall, so it’s fair to say that Nintendo is showing some optimism. that things have not been going so well in the video game console industry in recent years.

Nintendo predicts 21 million Switch sales for the fiscal year ending March 2023. This amount would represent 9.8% less compared to the previous year and 37% less than two years ago. The strategy would now focus on meeting sales forecasts by producing and delivering enough Nintendo Switch units.

Nikkei says Nintendo has no plans to release a Pro version or successor for the Switch in the rest of this year. The company relies on the current three versions of the product (standard, Lite and OLED) and the alleged new packaging size to fly, but it is no less true than the console that broke through at the time thanks to the fact that all efforts were concentrated in laptops and abandoned the standard desktop format, it may have started to show signs of exhaustion shortly after the original model was launched in 2017.

At the moment, we have no evidence that the reduction in the number of Nintendo Switch packages will translate into the sacrifice of any of the components that are now included, and we can highlight here the charger, the inclusion of which is questioned by many due to the existence of standards connection level.