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setsunatenshi said:
Eagle367 said:
It's weird that Europe still buys so many PS4s but so little switches. I mean Europe really does drag switch down. It should at least be 80k there but no it's horrendous when you compare it to everywhere else. That one game that breaks switch totally into Europe will be the game changer, if it ever happens. Maybe animal crossing since they love games like that apparently. Switch basically owns US and Japan until new systems release so the only battlefield left to win for the youngest system is Europe but PS4 will not go down easy

There's a reason why Europe is Sonyland, there is very little nostalgia for Nintendo in Europe when you look to the demographics of 30 year + as Sega (Mega Drive / Genesis) was pretty huge here. And in some countries much bigger than Nintendo.

Then Sony pretty much carried the mantle of being top dog ever since, to the point that non gamers will default to Playstation as the main word they associate to videogames.

So just on lack of nostalgia for the other competitors and complete mindshare take over by Sony across Europe, I don't see this situation changing anytime soon.

I think Nintendo would have to really change their "toy company" perception to be taken seriously as a competitor to Sony in Europe.

Other than the last sentence I agree with you. A few things we have to consider, the launch price for Switch in most European countries was 320€, that's roughly 25% higher than it was in Japan. Even today the base price for Switch is above 300€.

Sony's distribution network was/is a lot better in Europe/RotW than Nintendo's.

I think most consumers in Europe are more interested in Nintendo portables than home consoles, a Switch price drop and/or Switch mini will give Switch sales a significant boost.