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AngryLittleAlchemist on 03 November 2017
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Slimebeast said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

I mean I guess you could say all those are reasons, but the bigger issue is that nearly half of the Switch's market is in Japan, which means that a ton of Switch's are going into Japan and not America. 2 million Switch's have been sold in Japan, 2.6 have been sold in America. 

It's like being a native to Japan and asking why are PS4 sales so low if it's breaking so many records? (the analogy isn't perfect because the U.S. is one of Nintendo's biggest markets, but the point is that having nearly equal holding in two territories makes a limited console seem less impressive in one territory)...It just does not make a whole lot of sense. 

Bold: funnily that's actually something I've scratched by head over all the time since I've started following console sales ten years ago. Why are the Japan sales numbers for Sony and others so small for a country with 127 million people and a population supposedly so crazy about video games?

Because Japanese gamers care more about portability on average than a home experience. The 3DS outsold the PS2 over there. The PS2 sold 150 million and the 3DS sold 65+ million. Portability has just been progressively more important for Japanese consumers, or has become more attractive. And to be clear that's not a dig at the PS2, 20+ million sales is nothing to scaw at.