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Sephiran on 06 November 2025
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bonzobanana said:
Sephiran said:

I mean when it comes to Europe, keep in mind that PS4 outsold Switch 1 in Europe, so its very likely that even if Switch 2 outsells PS5 in global sales that in Europe PS5 lifetime sales will be higher than Switch 2. PS is just more popular than Nintendo in Europe. I think France are one of the few European markets where Nintendo is more competitive with Playstation.

Other than that is seems you are letting your personal views cloud your judgement, Nintendo increased their sales forecast from 15M to 19M this fiscal year, meaning from the sales info they have, contrary to Switch 2 losing momentum it seems momentum is increasing. And if Nintendo ships 19-20M units in less than 1 year on the market as they currently forecast then its impossible to continue to spin any narrative of Switch 2 not being a very in demand system, even if it may be weaker in certain regions like Europe. But its global sales that is most relevant metric after all.

I don't think I'm letting my personal views cloud my judgement and I was clearly stating that it had lost momentum in Europe only but you seem to have changed that in your reply so it feels like your reply has added bias. You mention about France but retailers in France have been aggressively discounting the Switch 2 and we are only months after launch. Clearly I stated it was doing very well in the USA and Japan so I'm not spinning anything, again you seem to be adding in false information in your reply which again shows bias. Just for the record I do not own a PS5 and have no positive bias towards Sony just interest in how the Switch 2 is performing sales wise. I do have multiple Switch systems. OLED, lite and the original launch model. I do not currently have a Switch 2. However I'll admit I am mainly a PC gamer plus Switch and don't have current Playstation or Xbox models. I'm interested how the Switch 2 is performing in Europe in comparison to the US and Japan and feel price is a huge factor for this. Europe is a huge market roughly 20% of the world revenue in videogames.

My point in summary was the market which the Switch 2 has had much less success is also the market with the unfairest pricing.

The reason i mentioned France is that estimates from Installbase forum is that Switch 2 will outsell Xbox Series lifetime sales in France in around 6 months. Xbox series is around 800k lifetime sales in France while Switch 2 seems to be trending towards 900K-1M sales in France this year. And even though Xbox is not the most popular in Europe it should be logically impossible for Switch 2 to outsell Xbox lifetime sales already in some European markets. The fact that PS5 is even stronger in Europe doesn't really detract from Switch 2 being a hit in Europe.