Incubi said:
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. |
When I talked about Nintedo I chose to ignore the Wii, as this is a thread about trends, Wii was quite clearly not the trend, and just a flash in the pan. I can't explain how you don't know a lot of people with xboxes, It's definetly doing well (the 360 did, the XBO is doing relatively well).
At your second paragraph, that's really interesting to hear, I really had no clue about that.
I'll just throw this out there, probably a way better representation than any of us could give using anecdotes.
http://www.dataspelsbranschen.se/media/135759/nordic_game_sales_2013.pdf