Not surprising, PS is incredibly strong in Europe, and PS4 outsold Switch 1 pretty easily there.
Nintendo will be happy that they are starting to carve out a decent second fiddle role in Europe, they are far from doing Xbox sales numbers there, so Europe can be a decently good market for them, but they are not a PS competitor in the European market.
Another factor that lowers the Switch 2 appeal in markets like Europe is that basically every major third party game that blew up in popularity this year is skipping Switch 2, doesn't matter if its Arc Raiders, Battlefield 6, Clair Obscur etc. You basically have to be a big Nintendo fan to pick up a Switch 2 instead of a PS5 in Europe this year. And unlike in the US and Japan, Nintendo can't really compensate the lack of those third party releases with their own IP because Nintendo nostalgia and popularity of Nintendo IP in Europe is just so much lower than in the US and Japan.
Switch 2 missing out on live service games also lowers its appeal in Europe, PS5 is fully dominated by live service games looking at its most played charts, so that is what people buy PS5 for, and Switch 2 is mostly useless in that regard.
Last edited by Sephiran - on 26 November 2025
