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Sephiran on 27 November 2025
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Otter said:
Sephiran said:

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)

PS5 hasn't declined in popularity in Europe, the covid related problems at the start of the PS5 era as well as some increased prices has just pushed demand later down the line for PS5, which we can see from the strong PS5 sales this year in Europe. 

And what would be the motivation for Spaniards to buy Switch 2 this year? Almost none of the Switch 2 first party games are selling in Spain, meaning they don't appeal to the general market in Spain. All the appealing new third party releases of 2025 also skips Switch 2 releases. We don't know yet if Nintendo will see no positive effect in the future in markets like Spain when they release games people actually want to play in Spain, for one thing. If Nintendo releases a new 3D Mario game that bombs and don't sell any consoles in Spain, that would be more worrying for Nintendo's long term performance in that market.

All in all, Nintendo is not able to be a competitor to PS5 in Spain, but if Switch 2 sells 300k in Spain this year, that would be a very strong first year in Spain for a Nintendo console, which shows that Switch 2 is still slated to be a good second fiddle console in Spain, even though it won't touch PS5 popularity there.

Last edited by Sephiran - on 27 November 2025