PS4/XBO/NS - 2019 vs 2020; WEEK FIFTY-THREE!! GAME! SET! MATCH!

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I'm looking at Switch numbers by region, and it seems like RoW is doing the best this year relative to last year.  RoW officially passed last year's total this week.  However it was nearly tied last week.  Essentially that means that 2020 week 39 was the same as 2019 week 52. 

RoW has the entire holiday quarter to move ahead of last year's total.  Last year the holiday quarter was 51.3% of annual sales in RoW.  This year it will probably be a little less than 50%.  At any rate it is kind of crazy to see how much RoW is up.  It's currently around 100% increase YoY.  At the end of the year it will probably end up a little less than double.  So something like going from 3.2m last year to almost 6m this year.

Back in early 2018 when I predicted Switch would be the best seller of all time, one person made a fairly reasonable argument that Switch wouldn't sell in RoW anywhere like the PS2 did.  And as I said, this was reasonable, because historically Sony does have a much greater presence in RoW compared to Nintendo.  However, this year, right now, it doesn't look like Nintendo is having any problems with RoW other than getting out enough Switches to them.  It does look like they are expanding their market reach.