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Nintendo Switch Holiday Shortage Looms as Chip Crunch Forces 20 Percent Cut in Production

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The PS5 and XSX are hard to find, but surely you’ll be able to get a Nintendo Switch this holiday season, right? Not so fast.
Prepare for a battle if you’re hoping to buy any new game consoles this holiday season. Both Sony and Microsoft are reportedly taking extraordinary steps to get PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles to players, but both will still likely be in short supply, and now it seems the system consumers have been able to reliably get – the Nintendo Switch – may be stricken with shortages of its own. According to a new report in Nikkei Asia, ongoing semiconductor shortages have forced Nintendo to slash their Switch production schedule by 20 percent.

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