China is officially Switch's 4th biggest market

[IcaroRibeiro]

Dulfite said:

jonathanalis said:

It is very difficult to Nintendo achieve any success in Brazil.
The Nintendo Switch price here is 3 months of the minimum wage, and 90% of the population dont earn that money in a month, 2/3 of ppl dont earn even half of it.
Here the games are rarely bought at full price, and while same year xbox and ps games can be found at the equivalent to 10$ to 20$ frequently, a physical Nintendo game release cost frequently 80$, and stay 60$ years after the release (40$+ used).

Also, the history of Nintendo is not good. Not Nintendo, Sega had the most selling systems in gen 3 and 4 here. Then ps1, ps2 and the transition was for x360, wii didnt get close. Most played games here on consoles are GTA and FIFA, but mobiles are also growing fast, specially know that everyone has a mobile phone that runs free fire, and the console prices are getting higher due to the devalorization of our currency.

I cant see any realistic plan to make Brazil work.

What if they had some model where hardware was really cheap (like $60) and games were like $10 each, but every 15 minutes of play makes a commercial pop up? Basically the hulu of the gaming industry. Obviously this model wouldn't generate as much money for them as selling $300 hardware and $60 games, but that's not the point. If they can make some profit in Brazil, even if this model existed just in Brazil, then that's more money than they would have otherwise and it will grow the gaming industry for the future. Basically if the market in place isn't designed for your business model, then adapt your business model to fit that market.

No need of all this workaround

They just need to sell their games for half of the current price (like Sony does) and stop charging more for a Switch than what Microsoft is charging for Series S

And of course have a subscription program that is actually worth it cause Nintedo online isn't 

They won't do this because Nintendo only likes big profit margins. They still haven't step a foot in many eastern european markets that are basically Sonylands

I think Sony strategy is to accept tiny profits (or even accept small losses) and expect their presence in the market be absolute, when the market start to develop and spending more in games their brand will lead there by far.