The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

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Tober said:

Looking at Nintendo's financial briefing released after the last investment meeting, there was a chart where it was shown in what countries Nintendo officially sells their products. If I read the chart correctly Nintendo does not sell officially in countries like India, Thailand or Indonesia. I get that the average income isn't very high in these countries, but these are highly populated. There should be a market of a few million Switches every year there. Perhaps there are reasons, but I don't know why Nintendo is not officially present there. I visited Thailand a couple of years ago and you can find Sony shops with PlayStation there.

It's kinda like the same concept as China, except there aren't any law outlawing capitalistic ideas.

India, China, Thailand, Indonesia have a high black market ratio where "fake" consoles are sold at a ridiculously low rate that play the games that kids want. 
The economy over there is very poor, over 50% live in poverty but have enough to get by. Consoles are way too expensive $300 USD is very high compared to the Rupee. 
The demographic are not playing like the US is now, they aren't sitting down at a tv to play games. The children in India are active, running, working, watching football. If they are playing games they are most likely playing on the fake consoles or free games on their phones like China.

I totally agree, Nintendo should be selling consoles in those countries, but they should be selling them at a really dirt cheap price, but that could get messy with scammers, and people selling Indian-market consoles outside of India making bank. It's a rough decision.