| Teeqoz said: Norway: I think Norway might be the most Xbox friendly market in europe besides UK. The XBO is doing quite decently based on various anecdotes, although the PS4 is on top. Nintendo has a very small niche here (home console wise), mostly kids have Wii Us, of which there are few of (Wii U's). PC gaming is catching on, but mostly together with a console. My explanation is that Norway is a very wealthy country, so a lot of people can afford both a console and a PC. There are very few of the adult Nintendo fans that you can find in other parts of the world. I think the reason for that is that gaming here was, based on what I've heard, basically nonexistent before the PSOne, with the exception that the Commodore 64 was kinda popular here, and when gamimg started to catch on, Sony was dominating. Handhelds are on a very steep decline here, before, all the kids I knew had DS's or Gameboys, now, 3DS's are nearly extinct. Cod, GTA, Battlefield, FIFA. A little bit of Halo, a ton of Minecraft, a touch of AC. All in all, I think Norway is very much like the UK as a gaming market. |
I feel Norway right now is Sony land as far as console gaming go mainly because of FIFA. In my experience almost every single houshold seem to have a Wii and PS3 - with Wii being the party machine and PS3 being the FIFA machine. And thats about it.
As for gaming in Norway only becoming a thing when PSOne hit, is false. With NES, SNES and Game Boy, Nintendo was everywhere during the 80's and 90's. If you where a kid growing up during the SNES era you'd feel enourmous pressure to own one. If you did'nt you where pretty much out. As i said before, it became so bad the norwegian government sued Nintendo for brainwashing children at the time.
What you got right is that every household has a PC. Just not a gaming PC. As for competitive gaming - whenever i go to fighting game tournaments, Super Smash Bros. seem to be by far the biggest game. Last i went Smash had more competitors than all the other games put together. MOBA's and SC2 seem to be what competitve PC gamers in Norway are into, atm, though. And, ofcource, smartphone gaming alongside Minecraft reigning supreme.
