Global Hardware 23 December 2017

[DonFerrari]

zorg1000 said:

DonFerrari said:

Sure it is reasonable (not mandatory) and as I put in another post, if Nintendo shipped 15M by December end it is likely that Switch sold 13-14M.

So if you agree that what i said is believable than what was the point of your original snarky response to me?

Sometimes being snark is an end in itself you know. Also I was more under the impression that you didn't think RoW would be overtracked if we just increased Europe at that time (7 and 10M announcements), but sure for end of year it may be somewhat undertracked if the split remains the same.

RolStoppable said:

DonFerrari said:

I'm not bothered by Switch doing well or even doing well in Europe. I just pointed that id doing good in France doesn't mandatorily mean it done good in all Europe (point in case, Switch was the fastest selling console in France on the first 10 months, but wasn't the same for Europe as a whole). That is why I pointed that Asia itself have been good for PS4 and that doesn't mean Japan itself did good, or we could even put that Europe doing bad for X1 doesn't make it do bad in UK.

It's not necessary to be the fastest selling console in history to do well and I didn't even hint at Switch being the fastest selling console in Europe as a whole.

Why the PS4 comparison is flawed has already been explained. The XB1 comparison is flawed because it is known that Microsoft has problems in mainland Europe, but not in the UK. Nintendo has no historical lopsided sales trends in Europe like Microsoft does, that's why the comparison doesn't work.

Sure it isn't necessary. But if we use France being 25% of the market to put Europe numbers up, for it to hold the percentage on marketshare it would also need to be fast in all other European markets.

Nintendo doesn't have issues on Europe, still if I'm not wrong aren't you on the wagon that think Japan and USA advantage Switch have will be higher than PS4 that only have "one market" lead over Switch?