Let's be sensible here. Nintendo's standing in the UK hit rock bottom with the Wii U, with barely any presence in the UK charts from a software perspective. Fast forward to Switch and we are seeing small baby steps of improvement. Games are charting in the top 10 on a regular basis and shock horror one or two third party Switch games have breached the UK top 10, one being the game in question on this thread. To me this is encouraging to see and I'm hoping FIFA has good legs. Comparing the small percentage of Switch sales of the game compared to established consoles with userbase going into the millions is really just plain dumb. Then again the naysayers haven't had much negatives to cling on to since Switch launched 6 months ago.

It's disappointing about those physical numbers. But it seems as though Europe/UK is not the biggest market for Nintendo products anyways. It will be interesting to see how the Americas and Japan do with FIFA.

I was debating getting this game or not, but I am not a huge soccer fan and rather have Madden. So for me not worth picking up.

Yes, your way is ridiculous. It's like you don't understand what percentages actually represent or something. You're trying to pass off a 3.7% difference as some insignificant amount without even considering the size of the total that you got the percentage from. If you reduced Nintendo's marketshare in the US down to the level of the UK, 3DS would go from 19.58 million to 17.26 million, Wii U would go from 5.69 million to 3.57 million, and Switch would go from 1.88 million to 1.17 million. In total, that's 5.14 million lost sales, when they only had 27.15 million to begin with, and this number of lost sales would increase in the future as Switch's lifecycle continues: When Switch hits 20 million in the real USA, it would be 15 million or less in your altered USA (12.48 million according to VGChartz). That would be a huge blow to their sales.

You're the only one using misleading figures; you're trying to obscure a gap of 5+ million by saying "lol it's only 3.7%".

1% sounds terrible, but you have to consider these three things:

- UK is Nintendo's weakest major market, so it will be higher than 1% in other countries.
- The Switch is still a new console, not many people own it already, so its legs will be relatively better.
- FIFA fans (= people who buy the game day one) are more likely to buy the XBox/PS4 version than people who just want to play a game that looks fun (= people who buy it later on). This makes the legs of the Switch version even better.

So, I think that the Switch version could get 3-5% worldwide lifetime. The game will probably sell 10-15M, so the Switch version would be 300K - 750K. Still not great, but it looks already a little bit better.

I bought it physical

Also its third on uk download charts behing golf story and steamworld dig 2

Unfortunate. People are saying the game is quite good, even better than NBA2K gameplay-wise because of the 60 fps even if it is missing one mode.

There is. It also doesn't show the PC version. Possibly neither even got 1%.

I don't think there even is a physical release of the PC version.

Not a great sign for mass third party support. Skyrim and DOOM will be tests to see if they can maintain it, but at least Nintendo has had some success at this point.