Lucas-Rio on 20 January 2018
| bonzobanana said: Interesting comments, is there any breakdown of sales per european country at any point so far. People keep saying the UK hasn't accepted the Switch but surely it has been one of the most successful markets for Switch after German y (far bigger population) and France which is a near identical population. I don't think other large countries like Spain or Italy have bought as many. There was definitely retailer apathy at the beginning in the UK but we still shifted 80,000 Switches at launch compared to something like 25,000 in Italy and other countries like Greece where only 2,000 were sold. France is definitely the leading country for Switch in Europe though no question. There are something like 50 countries in Europe and the UK is probably in the top 5 of Switch success by volume and probably in the top 10 by ratio of sales by population. How are people working out that the UK hasn't taken to Switch purely by historic comparisons compared to wii etc? Even if true that still doesn't negate its one of the most important markets for Switch today even if we haven't accepted it to the same level as wii. Again though I'm sure all this will become clearer when we get more concrete numbers by each country. Certainly comparing the UK to mainland Europe surely shows that the UK has bought many more Switches per head even by early numbers. Population of Europe 743 million, population of UK 66 million. Switches sold in Europe 3 million, switches sold in uk ? If the UK has bought more than 267,000 Switches we have bought more per head than the average in Europe. |
Regarding the UK, we had the infromation at the end of October, that the Switch had reached 300k. In the same time, the Switch was over 400k in France. Now the Switch is at 911k in France, so we can estimate the UK number at probably around 700k ? Maybe more ?
We generally say that the UK doesn't like Nintendo because it is a bigger market than France or Germany for Videogames but the size of Nintendo is smaller.
