Doctor_MG said:
bonzobanana said:
I certainly don't think its bombed in Europe but those figures don't look impressive for Europe compared to other regions. The current 4th October week sales shows the Switch 2 only at about 40% of the sales of PS5 in Europe where as in the US and Japan it is significantly ahead. Europe has 750 million people compared to about 120 million in Japan and yet according to your figures they will be broadly the same figure. The price of the Switch 2 is about 50% more in the UK than Japan, £250 in Japan and £370 in the UK. I'm still seeing loads of Switch 2 stock about in the UK. Its no surprise to me that the Switch 2 is selling so well in Japan but much weaker in Europe. For some reason Nintendo seems happy to accept much lower sales in Europe with much higher pricing. I really can't see Switch 2 matching Switch 1 sales if they are willing to sacrifice the European market. As ever though this is the shipped amount of Switch 2 consoles and maybe they have increased production due to expected demand or perhaps they have just achieved a higher production figure and want to saturate retailers with stock to make sure they have high Christmas sales.
I love video gaming but for some reason I'm also interested in how different consoles perform sales wise. So its going to be really interesting how it all plays out over the next 2 months. However possibly the more interesting news is going to be the collapse of Xbox sales, this is likely to give PS5 a huge boost in sales. That's me assuming the sort of people that would have considered getting a Xbox Series X will now go across to PS5 what with Microsoft now supporting the PS5 and broadly similar performance and software libraries. So I feel Europe will be the most interesting market to watch as there is more to play for really. You could say the US and Japan is a dead cert for a Switch 2 victory but it certainly doesn't feel that way at all in Europe. Switch 2 seems to have lost a huge amount of momentum but perhaps that will all change in the run up to Christmas.
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Those Japan to Europe numbers align pretty closely with what the Switch 1 has (37.7M Japan to 39.5M Europe). So, while you're right that it isn't as impressive as other regions, it also isn't indicative of any dramatic change.
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If anything, the fairly distributed Switch 2 sales to pretty much every region is the best sales split to have, because that means you have a very diversified user base in a lot of different markets. Nintendo sells a lot of consoles not only in the US like Xbox or have a big US/EU dominance like PS has, but they sell a lot in Asian markets like Japan and Nintendo is seemingly the bigger console company in South Korea as well. The large ''other'' sales also points towards China being a growing market for Switch 2. So they have a very diversified user base, while Xbox has the least diversified user base. I don't see how that would be negative for Nintendo, that they get people not just in the US and the EU buying their stuff.
