According to a Nikkei report, Nintendo will cut back the packaging dimension of the Nintendo Switch. This will assist to enhance transport effectivity. In flip, it would increase the velocity at which the Switch is stocked in shops or for web shoppers. [Thanks, Nibellion!]

Nikkei has reported that Nintendo will cut back the packaging for the Switch by 20%. This plan is to assist clients all over the world get a Nintendo Switch quicker. But it would enhance Nintendo’s personal gross sales as properly. Vooks crunched the numbers and famous that the unique Nintendo Switch field is 14% larger than the brand new Nintendo Switch OLED field. Behind the scenes, Nintendo had already began to chop again on its packaging.

While yearly gross sales of the Nintendo Switch have dropped, Nintendo has offered a complete of 111 million items since its preliminary 2017 launch. More than 100 million customers have been enjoying it yearly. That means the overwhelming majority of gamers who bought a Switch nonetheless actively get pleasure from it, quite than letting it accumulate mud.

It has offered greater than the Nintendo Wii (101.63 million items), however remains to be sitting behind the Nintendo Game Boy (118.69 million). Though Nintendo is attempting to promote extra consoles by altering the scale of the field, the semiconductor scarcity and completely different main releases are additionally affecting its gross sales numbers.

It is unclear when precisely Nintendo will implement the modifications to its field sizes. But it’s doubtless that Nintendo Switch packing containers showing within the close to future will look considerably smaller.