@johncalmc Exactly. The UK is an anomaly.
You ever noticed we have this constant macho image we need to maintain? Kids are bullied in schools for not playing GTA and CoD and FIFA or for playing "baby games". Heck I know I was and even had some of those comments on this very site!
The UK is a weird market unto itself.
Anyway, thisll let you know a little hint about how the retail scene, just in general as this can easily (as we see on the UK eShop) appky to other nations as well...
https://gamingbolt.com/nintendo-switch-third-party-digital-sa...
Third party sales are higher on the eShop than at retail in the US for the first time.
In the UK it also obviously is, just look at the chart, but in Europe as a whole I expect its guaranteed to angle that way to be a digital storefront because as Ive mentioned, lots of third party games are digital only here but physical elsewhere
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