Where are you from?

[TheSource]

I live near Philadelphia in New Jersey...but I'm at college in the boondocks in PA. The entire town has 5000 people, the combined areas within 20 miles in any direction total maybe 30,000. At launch, Wii and PS3 both had lines at the Walmart. As far I can tell, there were 20 Wii's for the 30,000 people on launch weekend, while there were a grand total of 8 PS3's. I was number 24 in line...so I drove to Philly where there were thosands of Wii's to accomodate the metropolitan area of 5 million people...but it still took me a week to find one, looking almost non stop. I really should have pre-ordered it. That said, my friend had the same trouble finding a PS3. He pre-ordered at an F.Y.E. The F.Y.E. got 2 PS3s by the end of 2006...but had taken 30 preorders...it was pretty funny. Locally, PS3's stopped selling out quickly after Christmas. Back in New Jersey, which is the richest state in the entire USA, the PS3 was sold out in most places through about January 20, 2007 when big shipments came in. Wii is still selling out in my hometown, as it is here (my girlfriend works at Walmart). 360 actually is selling out in NJ as well. Although that is not surprising, since a number of hardcore gamers come from my town (thats what happens when the "bad" side of town has an average household income of $85,000 or so). The guy who runs IGN DS (Craig) is actually from my town. A bunch of other game journalists hail from Jersey as well. I can all but guarentee that when good games come out in NJ, everything sells out..its like Japan