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Forums - Sales Discussion - Global Weekly, 26th August 2017, Hardware and Software

Flilix on 13 October 2017
IamGeordie said:
According to VGC numbers as of 26th August Switch has sold more units in Europe than Japan !

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/42974/Europe/

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/42974/Japan/

Switch is certainly not doing bad in Europe (compared to other Nintendo consoles), but it could do so much better. Europe has 6 times as many people as Japan.



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curl-6 on 13 October 2017
LimaBean01 said:
curl-6 said:

Nintendo actually has a fairly strong foundation here in Aus; by late 2010 Wii had sold over 2 million here and DS over 3 million; we're a country of just 23 million people, so 1 in 10 Aussies bought a Wii (though since a lot of those went into households of 4-5 people, far more than 1 in 10 would've "had" one) and 1 in 8 a DS.

Then nowadays, my local eb games stores (I'm in Perth) have multiple walls of ps and Xbox products that span the entire shop, whilst Nintendo quite literally has a section I'd say 2 metres in width. Could be just how they set up their shop, but obviously it at least somewhat reflects what the customers are buying the most.

Anecdotally, my friends all own PS4/Xbox one. Though unlike NZ, there seems to be a fairly even split between those two... I know this is entirely anecdotal and that real data may prove me entirely wrong but at least for this current generation, Nintendo seems rather week in Aus, a far cry from the Wii/ds days. 

if I've just been ignorant and there are actual sales of the switch/Wiiu/3ds vs PS4/xb1 in Australia I would love to see them, but I haven't been able to easily find any yet.

Naturally Nintendo isn't as prevalent now as during the Wii days; they just came off 4 years of the badly underperforming Wii U, and Switch is only a few months old. It will take time for them to recover lost ground.



Alby_da_Wolf on 17 October 2017

Virtual tie between PS4 and NS, that dominate the first week starting coming out of the Summer slump.



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