In USA and Japan it's matching or even surpassing past Wii domination.

Is that so? I wasn't aware, that's strange if true because Australia and New Zealand have a lot in common, except Australia has a larger population, though still small by global standards. I live in Aus and the Switch is everywhere here.

fellow aussie here and despite it being a lot behind us and most large european countries, australia is definitely a LOT better than new zealand for nintendo yeah. i've been to new zealand a few times and never seen one in the wild. plus, on the era PAL charts there are weekly software charts for the two regions, and the difference is stark - often theres no nintendo games in the NZ chart.

Just have a look at the latest sales, it's like this every time, NZ never has a single Nintendo game in the top 10, Australia are all over Nintendo.. not sure what's going on with NZ

https://igea.net/ 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pal-charts-week-3-2021-hitman-iiis-debut-17-vs-hitman-iis-in-uk-more-ps5s-on-english-shelves-and-more.367214/ 

I think that's partially because of bundles. Gen 8 software bundles tend to be digital-only. Bundles helped games like Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, and Mario Kart Wii sell so much.

I was talking about hardware. Since this is hardware thread. Sorry for any confusion. 

As someone who lives in NZ the reason why Nintendo does terrible here is because Nintendo never really bothered promoting its products here like Microsoft and Sony. Nintendo marketing here is shockingly bad as a result it is just not cool to have a Nintendo product and also as Nintendo relies a lot on nostalgia, people aren't nostalgic for Nintendo cause they didn't grow up with it. Nintendo hasn't done well here since the SNES.

Sony dominates NZ though. NZ like parts of Europe is Sony land. 

Saruman rules NZ from his dark and tall tower, and, also to prevent his Uruk-Hai from becoming too childish, he decided that for his country he prefers a different kind of evil. 

I never realized NZ was so different from Australia in terms of which console brands sell most.
Maybe Nintendo overlook it because of it's small population, but then Aus isn't exactly crowded and they seem to do really well here.

But certainly is an important reason, a lot of people i know including friends and family became obsessed with PS1, first because they got swindled by that  "PS in the only console with Adult games", but later they played nothing but PES and FIFA, they have got every single Playstation and while they play one or two games that come with it they always end up buying all the football soccer games they can, not that it is something bad, but a lot of the "hardcore gamers" here ended up doing that, they get PS because it is the latest cutting edge technology, only to end up playing nothing but FIFAS.