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Otter on 27 November 2025
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Sephiran said:
Geralt99 said:

As per the article, the Switch 2 was discounted by 50 euros.
It's not usual for a system to go sale that launched less than six months ago.

For a five year old PS5 (even with 150 off) to outsell it by over 4 to 1 is quite impressive.

And why would it be a surprise for you that PS is more popular than Nintendo in Europe?

PS4 sold 3,9M units in Spain, Switch 1 sold 3,5M units in Spain. That means even though Switch 1 sold much more than PS4 WW, in Spain PS is more popular. So yes you would expect PS5 to sell more than Switch 2 in Spain as well.

Switch 1 and PS4 sales are not worlds apart, they're relatively close competitors. So that should make Switch 2 and PS5 close competitors too... so the 5 year old PS5 doing 4x the number of the brand new S2 is still an achievement and notable.

If Switch 2 had matched PS5 we would probably consider that expected considering the audience of S1 is huge and the system is brand new versus PS5 being older now.

This news isn't to dunk on the S2 necessarily, but it is in fact interesting. Whether from the PS5 standpoint of how elastic its sales can be if it had the traditional price falls over its life, or whether this is s reflection of slower sales thus far for PS5 because of its higher price (IDK), or whether S2 is not quite performing to its potential because its higher than expected price (IDK)... but worthy of discussion. Would be nice if there were some comparisons to past performances of S1 and PS4 during black friday.

I am actually surprised the Switch 2 had a decent discount, in the UK I could only see £10 discounts and discounts on add ons (Switch Online)