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colafitte on 16 January 2019
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
colafitte said:

It's not "very much" possible at all.

UK, France are not Sonyland by any means. Germany, Spain, Italy are far better examples of that. We don't know Germany numbers either but Germany has been always, alongside Spain, the best market for PS4 (marketshare i mean). So i seriously doubt Switch suddenly is going to grow more there than in UK or France.

And by the, way, i think you did not understand correctly what i meant with EU numbers. If UK, FR and GE are 20-25% growth, and they're basically 65-70% of the market sales in Europe, that means that if Europe as a whole is a 35%, the 30-35% of the rest of Europe must be a lot more than a 35% growth, and there is no info in Spain or Italy (next 2 bigger markets in Europe) saying something like this either, so Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, Sweden, .... is practically impossible that they make the difference.

I think you didn't understand me correctly. I was saying that it's not the big 3 that make Sonyland, but all the smaller countries taken together. My first sentence was probably too ambiguous for that to be clear. 

@bolded: That's where you are dead wrong. they barely even represent half of Europe anymore, safe for Xbox (almost 1.2M out of 1.7M total this year by VGC numbers). For Sony, they are 3.1M out of 7.2M total sold this year, while for the Switch it's 2.5M out of 4.5M. Hence why I said Switch is growing there in the smaller European countries while the PS4 had the bulk of their losses there when compared to last year sales, there's much more growth there than most people realize.

1. Oh, that makes more sense that way...XD

2. You're proving my point. UK+FR+GE in 2017 did 2'2M from 3'4M Europe did as a whole. That's a 65% (that 65-70% was an aproximation because i did not looked for the exact number). So rest of Europe (not UK, FR and GE in this case) did 1'2M in 2017. When you say to me that, according to VGC numbers, in 2018 UK+FR+GE did 2'5M and Europe as whole did 4'5M until now, that means rest of Europe did 2'0M in 2018. That's a 66'7% growth YOY compared to last year with a week left, compared to just a 13% growth for UK+FR+GE in the same period. Considering there is no news in Spain or Italy (the next 2 biggest markets in Europe) saying Switch did much much better than UK of France, we should expect the same growth happened in those countries. So if we count the big 5 (UK, FR, GE, SP and IT) that represent probably 75-80% of European sales. If all of these countries are in the same % of growth, it makes basically impossible the difference in grotwh made by the rest of Europe.