Dating back to spring of this year, Nintendo was faced with a growth spurt in sales for its current hybrid handheld console, Nintendo Switch. While millions of people around the globe were affected by the still undergoing novel coronavirus, many were urged to stay at home and practice social distancing until the pandemic begins to clear up. During that, Animal Crossing: New Horizons arrived opening opportunity for many people to join in on the fun from home.

And with the game breaking records of preceding entries alongside general milestones for Nintendo Switch at the time, the long-term of Nintendo Switch was truly illustrated later on. By the end of this holiday season in late January, the product stood at 52 million units sold ahead of its three-year anniversary. But pushing through the start of the pandemic, the unit grew nearly 10 million in sales as it now ticks well over 60 million in August.

But to suffice the demand for more Switches, which Nintendo faced a drought in when halting production, the firm said to be ramped up by 10 percent in April. Howbeit, the firm is planning to further manufacturing more hardware in anticipation for the approaching holiday season where the Nintendo Switch is expected to face high demand for seasonal shoppers globally.

In a new report from Bloomberg, the publication tells that individuals involved within Nintendo’s approach for the upcoming holiday will further push production to meet 30 million units by the end of 2020. Already pushing its factories to operate at 120% as told by sources, this exceeds the initial 25 million systems reported from August. But what is more interesting is the message Nintendo is relaying to developers.

While manufacturing for the base Nintendo Switch is continuing to increase for the latter segment of 2020, Nintendo is asking teams to ready approaching projects for 4K support. “Several outside game developers, speaking anonymously as the issue is private, said that Nintendo has asked them to make their games 4K-ready, suggesting a resolution upgrade is on its way,” Bloomberg relays.

Gathered that the current model does not support the resolution count you find on competing hardware, this does look to be a premature call for the rumored model from Nintendo. Last month, it was said that is working to bring a new SKU in 2021 which will meet the standards of current generational hardware. You can read the full report by heading here.

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Source: Bloomberg