Where are you from?

[nintendo_fanboy]

Hi there when i started reading the forums, i thought that almost all of you are living in north america, but the more i read, the more i see people coming from europe aswell. because of that, i think we could make a thread here where everyone who is interested tells where he is from and maybe something about the situation in the videogame-industry iin his region. i am living in switzerland, near basel. in my homecountry, videogaming isn't that popular i think. people around twenty sure all at least know somebody who ones a console, but i guess it's around 1 of 5 of the adolescents who ownes a console himself. an important thing is that pc-gaming is quite popular here, that means that especially the hardcore-gamers are playing on the pc and don't own a console. because of that, casual games are much more important an ps2 sold well because of games like singstar. anyways, most people who want to say console are saying playstation in switzerland, because ps is so popular. but now wii is getting a good reputation too, mainly because it attracts casual gamers i think. the xbox isn't really popular here, i think this is because the people who wants to play fps's are doing that on the pc and microsoft's reputation is extremely low. now some stuff about the upcoming ps3 launch. of course the price is a reason for buying or not buying a console, but it not really plays an important role now. As i remember, the launch price of the ps2 was quite high here as well. people who are interested in games are complaining about this, but they were doing that at the x360 launch aswell, so i say that hardcore gamers who like sony are going to buy a ps3. the problem is a different one: ps2 sold well after a little time, when it had its first price drops and when the first casual games were released. now we have a console that attracts casual gamers a lot more and there's quite a hype about wii, and because of that i think there is a gap opening now and sony will have severe problems to close that gap in the next months or years, but this is not because of their price politic, but because of nintendos new strategy. it would almost be the same if ps3 would cost only 700 chf (it costs 900, though) so you see what i mean with this thread. if you think this is interesting enough, i'd like you to post something about your country.