setsunatenshi on 21 February 2019
| Eagle367 said: It's weird that Europe still buys so many PS4s but so little switches. I mean Europe really does drag switch down. It should at least be 80k there but no it's horrendous when you compare it to everywhere else. That one game that breaks switch totally into Europe will be the game changer, if it ever happens. Maybe animal crossing since they love games like that apparently. Switch basically owns US and Japan until new systems release so the only battlefield left to win for the youngest system is Europe but PS4 will not go down easy |
There's a reason why Europe is Sonyland, there is very little nostalgia for Nintendo in Europe when you look to the demographics of 30 year + as Sega (Mega Drive / Genesis) was pretty huge here. And in some countries much bigger than Nintendo.
Then Sony pretty much carried the mantle of being top dog ever since, to the point that non gamers will default to Playstation as the main word they associate to videogames.
So just on lack of nostalgia for the other competitors and complete mindshare take over by Sony across Europe, I don't see this situation changing anytime soon.
I think Nintendo would have to really change their "toy company" perception to be taken seriously as a competitor to Sony in Europe.
