Global Hardware 21 October 2017

[ryuzaki57]

Jranation said:

ryuzaki57 said:
The PS domination in Europe is impressive. Despite the Switch buzz, there's been a huge PS4 lead for weeks. Now there's a question : UK, FR and US ranking roughly show the same tastes in termes of software, so why is Switch slightly ahead of PS4 in the US whereas it can't even remotely compete in Europe?

(1) If  consumers see the Switch as a handheld. Maybe US likes handhelds more than EU. 

(2) Maybe its very expensive in the EU compared to NA. 

1/ Vita sold significantly better in EU than US, so no.

2/ 299$ on Amazon US, 292€ on Amazon France, so no.

The only explanation I see is that the US has a bigger percentage of Nintendo fans of its total gaming population than EU.