Mar1217 said:
IcaroRibeiro said:
Guess it's the same reason why Nintendo is mostly irrelevant in Latin America, they never made any effort to increase their brand here. Nintendo sells a lot based on nostalgia, if you weren't raised with Nintendo IPs games that evokes nostalgia becomes empty and meaningless The only Nintendo home console to ever sell more than 8 million copies in Europe was the Wii. In many markets Nintendo is a company to buy handhelds. This is so true that in Europe Nintendo handhelds always performed better than Sony's with the PSP barely outselling GBA and 3DS and being destroyed by DS and GB/GBC. I won't even talk about Vita Brand loyalty is a thing people often ignores when it comes to buying hardware. Xbox and Playstation library are 90% the same, Xbox is often less expensive and even has GP, yet PS3 outsold 360 by almost 10 million and PS4 decimate XBone, why? Many reasons, but brand loyalty plays a big role here Point is, Sony invested to sell Playstation in every market they could while Nintendo only focused in Japan, Western Europe and North America that's why Sony is always going to have an edge over Nintendo in both Europe and ROW. Not saying Nintendo can't win there, it's just harder and that's rather deserved |
I guess by ROW you especially mean the South American market cuz we've seen recently how the Switch has been a dominant force in the ROW because of their new fond ground in Asia. Though don't worry I've seen the : "Not saying Nintendo can't win there, it's just harder and that's rather deserved" To me this new found strengh is prolly what Nintendo needed to actually keep an edge on the ROW market. |
Yes, Switch had found a very big market in China, Soith Korea, Taiwan, etc. Which is partially explaining their big jump and is very likely to be their biggest system ever ROW. It's a matter of time and some regulation for China becomes one of the biggest gaming markets even for dedicated systems and Nintendo is pretty much running alone
As for LA, Nintendo current strength is the fact they has the only handheld option left in the market, but current price model isn't doing much here. Not that Nintendo cares, we are only 4% of WW gaming market pretty much the same size of Africa plus Middle West. The market growth for PC and consoles has been rather pale in the last 7 years while smartphone market is exploding, Nintendo should release mobile games if they want to promote their IPs here
