Global Hardware Sales 02 December 2017

[Bofferbrauer2]

zorg1000 said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Not even sure if that would work out. I talked with quite a few Wii U owners in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and France and the consensus was that the Switch is perceived as a downgrade from the Wii U. This comes because Europe isn't much into mobile gaming, so for many there the portability aspect is wasted. And for a mobile console, they feel that the 300€ pricepoint is just too high, especially with it's perceived short battery life.

In other words, it's everything but the games that's holding the Switch back in Europe - though a Fifa on par with the PS4 version in content might help.

Im not sure those people you talked to represents the general consensus.

According to this site, Switch is right around 2 million in Europe in just over 8 months.

On the other hand, it took Wii U about 25 months to hit that number.

Switch reached that milestone in 1/3 the time.

Of course, but possibly both are true. Meaning, that most of the Switch owners are possibly not former Wii U owners, or at least a disproportional amount of the Wii U owners not having upgraded their console yet.