would you say that Sweden is a more PC centric gaming country and the market share for HC are really smaller?

do you have a few friends who are more into Nintendo than PS as well? or you guys have PS then Wii U as a secondary console?

Europe bisides the U.K. is sony land

Nintendo's base is not as big in Europe. Nintendo was never quite as big here as it was in Japan or America to begin with. Sega and then Sony were really big over here - and I never actually played a Nintendo console until I was like 11 (by which time I had played on loads of Playstations, Master Systems and Mega Drives). Obviously I've since learned that people did own Nintendo consoles, but I don't think Nintendo was quite the thing it was in those other regions. Except when it came to handhelds of course, where literally everyone had a Game Boy.

Europe is more then just Germany, Eastern Europe for example is full on hardcore PC while UK has always had a strong PC presence but it seems to be on an uptrend, Scandinavia have a solid PC scene as well.

Look on the bright side, at least Europe has a slightly better amiibo supply.

I wondered about this for awhile, since I live in the US. But from the sounds of it, it sounds like a mixture of preference and history. I've read and hear Nintendo didn't treat EU very well during their strong years, ignoring that base, only providing a few major areas in EU, and having a few language options available.

But then Sony came over and had a full simultaneous release in the EU, having almost all languages covered, having some fine enough games, and getting their 1st main title Final Fantasy game, 7 (Mystic Quest does not count ; ) ) I'm not sure if this is accurate as I'm overly simplifying what I have heard and read, but that's what I got.

Since then, there has been no need for anything else. Sounds like EU is fine with Sony alone.

I dont have any friends, but from the guys and girls that i go to school with. They play alot of PC games yes. a couple of years ago it was alot of xbox 360 centric. bit playstation and Wii  was also big, but everyone thought it was childish. Now if anyone here in sweden buys a home console its probably gonna be the ps4. So yeah alot are PC gamers in sweden. but i met some few lucky souls who were nintendo centric, mostly older guys. like 30. There are also a big number of girls who play Counter strike and LoL.

All my mates mostly have a Ps4 while a few have an Xbox One, we've spoke about the Nintendo consoles but none off us are interested in them. We've all said their games seem more catered to young to mid teenagers, while we're ages 28 to 33. They have a load of games all based on Mario or Pokemon, which we all used to play when we were 10 (mario) Pokemon we played in school, I know there's more games than those but even when we looked at other games, they just havnt got a maturity of games you find on Sony or Microsoft consoles, plus they always seem to release a console that's down in power compared to the other 2 that it can't have the same multiplat they Sony and Microsoft share.

Any ways as people have said already, Europe is pretty much PlayStationLand. Even the UK which was pretty much 50/50 with PlayStation and Xbox is now turning more into a PlayStation market.

That's not how I remember it. I'm from the Netherlands and everyone played Sega and Nintendo in the good old days.

EU was a difficult place to be a gamer and even more difficult for developers before the PS1 because the market in general was in an erratic state, no company treated it well because the diversity in taste made it hard to crack, localisation was still an issue when it was just English so the multiple languages were an issue. Even when the PS1 came along many gems skipped Europe for the same reason, Sony are more successful in Europe because they made their hardware a strong presence in most of Europe which is the best thing about them as you don't have a hard time buying a PS platform in most of the region but they also benefitted from changing times as companies began trying to crack Europe.

Eu is a place where the can never really only be one platform due to the tastes, the main thing in EU is making your presence known and Sony do that well, if you can market well and get the hardware out on shelves you always have a fighting chance, even if you're not market leader.