{"id":402480,"date":"2026-03-25T04:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/402480\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:15:10","slug":"nintendo-cuts-switch-2-output-by-over-30-on-weak-holiday-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/402480\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo cuts Switch 2 output by over 30% on weak holiday sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo is cutting back the production of Switch 2 after demand for the $450 gaming console trailed the company\u2019s expectations during the year-end holiday season, particularly in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The company plans to make 4 million units of its flagship device this quarter, a third less than the 6 million it had originally planned to produce, people familiar with the matter said. The reduced output rate is set to continue in April, the people said, asking not to be named as the figures aren\u2019t public.<\/p>\n<p>After a record-setting debut in June, sales of the Switch 2 have failed to meet Nintendo management\u2019s high expectations. Though demand for a lower-priced but unprofitable variant in Japan has remained strong, sales in the U.S. haven\u2019t met with similar continued success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo is cutting back the production of Switch 2 after demand for the $450 gaming console trailed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,19,17,3904,114870,82,3880],"class_list":["post-402480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nintendo","tag-switch","tag-technology","tag-video-games"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116287879490667562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}