Unsurprisingly, Nintendo doesn't want its Switch successor to be scalped and resold by those hoping to turn a profit, so the company has a simple but effective plan to prevent that from happening – simply make enough of the consoles in the first place.
Everyone remembers the PS5 stock issues – until 2023, it was practically impossible to find one of Sony's current-gen consoles at its standard retail price, unless you put stock alerts on for every online retailer and sat waiting to dive into a queue at a moment's notice. There simply weren't enough to meet demand thanks to a global shortage of semiconductors, and a significant amount of stock that was available was snatched up by scalpers, who'd then go on to sell the consoles at inflated prices, making them even harder to come by.
