Chris Dring: PS5 sales in the UK during November was down 29% pre-black friday year on year. Nintendo consoles up 41% year-on-year.

[Norion]

Sephiran said:

Norion said:

That's a relief but going forward I'll keep in mind a mistake like this potentially happening again when sales seem very unusual in the UK. Nearly 60% down YoY pre-Black Friday did seem crazy but it was from Dring so I trusted it blindly. Just under 30% is way more reasonable and the Switch numbers show more than ever that extrapolating its poor performance in November in the US to elsewhere is foolish.

I think it shows more that Switch 2 sales in the US were more frontloaded, but even though Switch 2 sales increased in Europe, its 460k sales in Europe vs 480k sales in the US for Switch 2 during November, so Europe got closer than ever to match Switch 2 sales in the US, but it took a historically week month in the US for Europe to come close. So its more that sales in the US was weak, than sales being good in Europe (Outside PS5 big performance in Europe during November).

Considering expectations it's absolutely a good first November for the Switch 2 in Europe. It's nearly 30% higher than the Switch 1's first which is a good sign considering how parts of Europe are price sensitive.