Replicant said:
As a European citizen, that's news to me. Do you mind sharing your source? When it comes to buying electronics (physical and online), Europeans usually go to Media Markt, Saturn, Dixons, Darty, Euronics, Argos, etc. |
I'm too, I'm from Germany.
Well, let's have a deeper look. Amazon is the third most visited website here behind google and youtube. Same for France, Spain, Italy, etc. Also the prices are better on amazon than any of the stores you have mentioned and believe me a lot of people do price checks in these times and don't buy blindly.
15 years ago, when I was a kid, Saturn was the hit, but those days are over. Both Media Markt and Saturn are in red and have cut 3,000 jobs across Europe: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/media-saturn-streicht-3000-stellen/4435428.html
Amazon is eating up all the competition and small shops (which is really sad btw). But it has its reasons, great service, fast delivery, no shipping costs, free return, best prices and when you have a card you earn points for each purchase, so many people use amazon just for everything.
According to statista.com in 2016, 57.2% of computer and video games were sold through online stores and 42.7% through the retail sector (last updated in October 2016). https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/201914/umfrage/einkaufsverhalten-im-onlinehandel-vs-einzelhandel-nach-produktgruppen/
Almost 3 years ago, I wonder what the numbers looks like today...
If PS4 outsells NSW again in the next update, then it has to be because of countries like Poland, where NSW is not popular at all, and other smaller countries, for which I have no statistics.
But for the big 5 Germany, France, Spain, Italy, UK I am pretty sure NSW outsells PS4.