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bonzobanana on 29 December 2017
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Miyamotoo said:
bonzobanana said:
As someone who can't really justify buying a Switch at current pricing as I only really want to play Mario Odyssey I'm hoping for a price cut. They need to do something in Europe as it hasn't been as successful as the US or Japan over here. I'm unsure at the moment how the Switch has faired over Christmas and how third party US and European titles are selling. Is interest in Switch rising, falling or stable? What are the levels of Switch owner's satisfaction with the console? Difficult to get the full picture at the moment. Also difficult to see if Nintendo are more motivated to maintain a high margin on the hardware or actually sell more units to generate more software sales. How sure are they of the success of their upcoming software titles?

My gut instinct is the Switch may not achieve those sales at current pricing and interest has waned slightly and it needs something to maintain momentum. That's looking from a UK perspective though and the US and Japan looks to to be on a different level.

I've not read many comments from owners saying how much they are using their Switches compared to other consoles if they own them too.

That's actually your problem, you are looking through the perspective of one of weakest Nintendo market in Europe, UK dont reprasaties nothing for Nintendo, talking about hardware and software sales, but even in UK Switch is selling good.

Europe loves Nintendo portables we just need them at lower prices. Europe will likely catch up with later sku's. I don't think the UK is the weakest market for Nintendo at all but certainly not the best in Europe. When the UK was out of stock of Switch's there were many other European markets that still had stock. I realise that is related to how much stock each country was given but UK stock allocation was no worse than elsewhere from memory probably higher than most. For now Europe is a weaker market for Switch than the US and Japan for sure but still selling well just not comparable to the huge success in Japan and US. I also think the paid online service will be perceived as more negative in Europe when its implemented. Also in the UK at least retailers were cautious and weren't giving the Switch much attention. It took a while for Game to really make any effort and still when you go in those stores much more space is allocated to PS4 and Xbox one. There could be a retailer factor and now as Switch has been proven to be successful shops will allocate more space to it. I can see Europe and UK being much closer to US Switch success in a year from now.