I am a french living in Hungary so I think my position is fair to talk :

Eastern Europe is having a GDP increase of about 4% or more these last few years. Their average salary almost doubled between 2010 and 2019. I am the one who has the shitty smartphone at 100€ where my hungarian colleagues all have much more expensive phones. Buying a console at 250 or 350 is not a big problem today in Eastern Europe. Ofcourse, even if the West is in an economical stagnation, they remain much richer and capable of buying. I think a strong marketing dedication could produce significant sales numbers in the future for East.

1. Oh, that makes more sense that way...XD

2. You're proving my point. UK+FR+GE in 2017 did 2'2M from 3'4M Europe did as a whole. That's a 65% (that 65-70% was an aproximation because i did not looked for the exact number). So rest of Europe (not UK, FR and GE in this case) did 1'2M in 2017. When you say to me that, according to VGC numbers, in 2018 UK+FR+GE did 2'5M and Europe as whole did 4'5M until now, that means rest of Europe did 2'0M in 2018. That's a 66'7% growth YOY compared to last year with a week left, compared to just a 13% growth for UK+FR+GE in the same period. Considering there is no news in Spain or Italy (the next 2 biggest markets in Europe) saying Switch did much much better than UK of France, we should expect the same growth happened in those countries. So if we count the big 5 (UK, FR, GE, SP and IT) that represent probably 75-80% of European sales. If all of these countries are in the same % of growth, it makes basically impossible the difference in grotwh made by the rest of Europe.

I'm not disregarding eastern europe for the sake of it and i don't want to disminish eastern european countries, but it's a historical data fact that the bulk of european sales come from western european markets, like in America's case they come from North America to be precise despite South America having a huge number of people. It's not about the amount of people, but the way they consume it. In fact, Spain despite being around 15M less than Italy (and less PIB per capita by the way), consume more hardware and software sales than Italy for example.

Another strong week for Switch, but doesn't seem like VGC will record any 2M week.

Damn Switch, awesome numbers

I'm gonna stop you right there. Yes, quickrick said Switch sales will fall of a cliff BUUUUT he then said they will be flat. And we can see that they're actually flat, even it will probably ending up selling 4 million more than last year.

Just read on Era that Switch is now over 50k sold in Portugal, up from 20k at the end of 2017 so a ~50% YoY increase. So maybe these smaller countries did have bigger growth.

I didn't hear much from those 2 countries yet myself. However, look a bit farther up north, to the Benelux for instance. Here I could see much growth (and with see I mean especially larger Nintendo sections in stores than they had during Wii U or even Wii days and also more front-and-center than in the past. I also heard that the Switch is apparently growing fast in some eastern Europe countries, though not sure how big their impact would be.

In other words, even if Italy and Spain stay stubbornly staunch Sony States, their percentage of the total European sales, just like the one of the big 3, is waning. I hope Nintendo will come with an Europe/EU/Eurozone region in the near future to make it more clear what sells where.

I can believe those countries growth is bigger %s than in UK, but 65-70% more than in the previous year as needed??? I have no data so i can't proof anything, but i'm just saying that % is big, very big.

Now we need every country in Europe not named UK, FR or GE doing the same or even better (by VGC calculations they have to do as a whole more than 65% more, at least, than last year to match VGC numbers). The question is... is that possible?