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I wonder how close the sales gap between the consoles actually are.
Pretty sure the XSX and PS5 are still hard to find. The SS a little less so.
Is there a historical reason why the UK is such a weak market for Nintendo? I know they're doing well, but it seems like it's not hard for them to fall behind the competition
This is so wild to me. Stock issues cant be anywhere near normal for Sony and MS...and yet...
Exactly.
I don't think they're stocking up for major software releases, instead they're shipping consoles as early as possible.
Would have loved to see Ratchet at the top spot - but with the EC going on this wasnt probably not gonna happen.
If you think Nintendo isnt doing well right now in the UK, i dont knot know what to tell you.
Its a system in its 5th year keeping up hw sales wise with very high in demand next-gen consoles, without having a price drop and a new model to be rumored/or now announced for the end of the year. Let alone their presence in the software charts.
If you think Nintendo isnt doing well right now in the UK, i dont knot know what to tell you.
I have to wonder how PS5 would sell if there was no stock issues.
They are #1 for the year and month and yet everyone complains they can't get one, lmao
They are #1 for the year and month and yet everyone complains they can't get one, lmao
Yeah I know, but this proves we're still far away from having this stock issues solved anytime soon, sadly
It's the same situation in NA and Japan, and Nintendo is killing it there. I'm not saying they're doing poorly in the UK, just that it's a relatively weak market for them .
It's not a weak market for nintendo. Whenever Nintendo do well globally, they do well here. NES, SNES, Wii, Switch.
Their highs are slightly lower than elsewhere and their lows are more pronounced, but we generally follow the trends.
As to why they're not as good as other territories, It may be because the UK doesn't have the same kind of relationship with the NES that the US and Japan do. It did well but was never a clear market leader here, all the old computers like the speccy, c64 and then amiga were still doing well, and the master system did well and had a longer tail then the nes (as nintendo dropped support for the nes far harder in the UK when the SNES came out compared to the Master System & Mega Drive). It's not the "console of your youth" as much as it was in other territories.
I've read reports that said that the supplies constraints can go as far the end of 2022. Don't really have a link on that, if someone does I would appreciate it, but yes, it is not something that's going to get solved pretty quickly.
Impossible to buy PS5 in Czechia. Series S is stocked everywhere, Series X you can pre-order and have it home in a month. If you pre-order PS5 now, the estimated delivery is sometimes in the first half of 2022.
PS5 today had some stock in the UK. I tried to get inside a store (i think it was www.very.co.uk?) and i couldn't. Once i did like 10 minutes later...it was sold out.
PS5 has been #1 but they sell out without being available to a public that's not always looking for one. That's how bad things are.
I honestly don't think we'll ever see a PS5 on a shelf until like early 2023 at this point.
They won't be solving this issue any time soon. Fall 2021 will be a bloobath, forget it. Next year we're getting God of War, Gran Turismo, Forspoken, Final Fantasy XVI, possibly stuff from Naughty Dog and god know what else. Meanwhile Sony will be struggling to keep up with demand. Fall 2022 will happen by the time they MIGHT start to have more units...but by then, Xmas is close and everything will be sold once again.
So my bet? Early 2023 for things to be better.
Nintendo always does really well here and frequently outsold the PS4 and Xbox One. The Switch is just well over four years old now, so sales are understandably slowing down as people are getting more interested in next gen gaming and everyone that wants a Switch probably already has one or is waiting for the successor.
XSX and particularly PS5 are very hard to get hold of at retail (I've been trying to get my son a ps5 digital, very rough, not paying scalpers and haven't got the time to camp out twitter feeds and drop eveything to reload web pages and fight online payment systems lol). I can't see it getting any easier as we get closer to xmas now and I've promised him he'll have it xmas day at the latest - d'oh! Maybe the scalpers will be seeing my cash at some point /o\
But the Series S is not a little less hard to get, it's freely available as it has been for months. You can buy one today anywhere... Game, Amazon, xbox.com, Very, AO, Smyths, shopto, wherever, they are always in stock at almost every outlet you can think of. I had a ps5 digital in my basket for launch but decided against it and got him a Series S so we'd have more to go at, but regret that decision when I could easily have just bought both or got the xbox later at pretty much any point... but hindsight and all that...
US is Nintendos biggest market and Japan their home market where PS/Xbox are barely a factor. So if that's the standard you are using UK will always look weak.
I think its related to the FIFA series starting out on Genesis console and since then, EA using its FIFA dominance to give Playstation the crown during thr PS2-PS4 era to MS trying to make major inroads here. I recall hearing from friends that Nintendo wasn't really big historically in the UK as a console maker. UK and Europe in general was always, Sega and Playstation land.
FIFA makes a lot of sense. On top of that series being popular; Nintendo doesn't have an alternative to offer either.
I remember seeing the numbers for the NES and SNES a while back and if I remember correctly, those consoles weren't the monsters they were in some other territories. Some countries have a deep connection with Nintendo due to their early consoles and I don't think this is a thing in the U.K.
This is not scientific at all but I found it fun.
if you go on Cex website and try to buy a XSX or a PS5 and enter your postcode, it shows you how many each store has in stock. This highly scientifc method shows there are more second-hand XSX consoles around and they go for less
if you go on Cex website and try to buy a XSX or a PS5 and enter your postcode, it shows you how many each store has in stock. This highly scientifc method shows there are more second-hand XSX consoles around and they go for less
| Console | Stock in all CEX stores | Price |
| PS5 boxed | 17 | £695 |
| PS5 unboxed | 18 | £665 |
| PS5 (Discounted due to low quality) | 13 | £655 |
| PS5 DE Boxed | Out of stock | £360 |
| PS5 DE unboxed | Out of stock | £350 |
| XSX Boxed | 34 | £590 |
| XSX Unboxed | 23 | £570 |
| XSX (Discounted due to low quality) | 12 | £555 |
| XSS Boxed | 3 | £250 |
| XSS Unboxed | Out of stock | £240 |
| XSS (Discounted due to low quality) | Out of stock | £230 |
I would hardly call here a PS stronghold. Germany or Spain yes, but UK loves Xbox comparatively much more than nearly all other European countries.
Yeah I would never buy a console from there myself but it was just a bit of fun data capture and an excuse to use the new tables lol.
Proportionately the UK has usually been Nintendo's weakest major market. Not just versus US and Japan, but really even markets like France and Germany. That's not to imply Switch is weak there, it's not (and DS and Wii certainly weren't either) but in terms of marketshare Nintendo does tend to lag in the UK for whatever reason.
When the PS5 came out last year Cex wanted me to sell mine for 700€ so that they could sell it then for 800€. That's how things were here in Portugal.
These numbers aren't surprising. it's what i expected tbh.
except… this is looking to be switch's best or second best year. sales are not slowing down, in fact the opposite is the case in most places. uk is probably one of only a couple countries worldwide where switch isn't at least in second right now.
as someone said earlier switch just reached i think it's 35th month in a row at #1 in NPD, is clearly the market leader in france/japan/sk/taiwan, and is putting up a strong fight with ps5 in other european countries like spain.
well what standard do you want us to use when comparing uk to other big markets? no one is saying switch isn't doing amazingly well for uk standards, the point here is that uk even now is one of the weakest regions in terms of market share for nintendo.