The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch (EDIT: See mod note in first post for new rule).

[eldanielfire]

Tober said:

eldanielfire said:

170 million is and was never gonna happen. It's good Nintendo are looking at new markets, but these nations with masses of poverty and weak middle classes aren't going to have huge markets for a console that is a fairly high price for even western markets these days.

On average this might be true. But because the sheer population size (especially India), they still have a rather large amount of people that could afford it.

A quick google shows that neither the PS2 nor the PS5 reached even a million consoles sold. You are grossely over estimating the financial power to to console cost in India regardless of population. It's still massively a population in poverty without luxary spending power and long work hours even in it's middle classes.

The medium wage in India is still $250 a month. Even the Switch lite cost more than that. Looking further 90% of Indians earn less then that and the middle class in india starts at 500 dollars a month. You are severely over estimating what Indian earn, how many of them earn a decent wage that can buy western products, it's massive unequal. India has neither the middle class population nor culture. Rich Indians have it on the grey market or a Switch 2 brought from abroad.