| Peach_buggy said: I'm pretty sure the Switch is massively undertracked here in Europe. I mean, more supply is available now, so surely the numbers should go up? Also, going by last weeks' numbers ( 5 Aug.) approximately 20k were sold just in U.K. France and Germany, so the whole of the rest of the continent only adds up to 15k? That's a lot of countries to only sell 15k in! Also, if you apply the same equation to PS4, it goes from roughly 25k in the 3 main countries to around 65k all told, so 40k in the rest of Europe. I don't buy it! |
Nah, europe was and is always a difficult terrain for Nintendo. Back in the day an Atari-lawsuit made Nintendos entry to europe difficult and Sega profited of that. Later Playstation took over. So Nintendos franchises are not so popular than in America for instance.
Also, it is harder to build up representation in all the smaller countries in europe. For Sony it is easier, as the not only sell gaming machines and games, but general electronics. So a headquarter in a smaller european country, which establishes connection and deals with lcoal retail, is much easier to build. I think in europe Switch reached faster the point that supply met demand.
I think though, Nintendo could do this gen some marketing and use the relative success of Switch to get a better foothold in europe.
