bonzobanana said:
I can't say I like that reasoning to be honest. It seems warped where people's expectations of a market seem more important than the actual numbers sold. It confuses the whole thing and just allows for people to put their own warped/skewed opinion which others may follow. The way its portrayed in this thread is the UK has rejected the Switch but mainland Europe has accepted it but the reality is the opposite the UK on its own has done great numbers compared to mainland Europe except that in mainland Europe Germany and France have done really well and most of the other countries have rejected it. There are 2 types of people in life, those that look at the evidence and those that believe what they want to believe it seems. Two factors I believe are important, one is retailer apathy at the beginning in the UK has changed, shops have seem the success and are now pushing the Switch in the UK so I think it was only a weak start for Switch in the UK. Also I do feel that Europe is more sensitive to price, many countries of Europe have less disposable income and price is a greater factor. So I can see Europe recovering anyway in a year or so as the Switch becomes more affordable. |
The reasoning is the same for all products. It's compared with the size of the market. If you have , let's say, 30% of the market in Italy and only 15% of the market in the UK, the console will be considered more successfull in Italy, despite the fact that it may have sold more in the UK, just because it's naturally a much bigger market for videogames.
Vendors compete as much for units sold as for marketshare, marketshare is how they perceive their performance relative to the market and how much more they could do.
I don't think any european country has "rejected" the Switch so far, as we have got press release from Nintendo France, Germany, Spain and Italy that the Switch sold more in 10 months than any other previous Nintendo console.
