It's not hard to believe that the global chip shortage really could have thrown Nintendo's best-laid plans up in the air. We've reported on how console manufacturers have been facing shortages of chips over the past year, and Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa even said earlier this year in April that the Nintendo Switch would likely remain hard to find over the remainder of 2021. On the Xbox Series X and PS5 side of things, the global chip shortage got so bad in recent months that the U.S. government even stepped in to investigate earlier this year in February.