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Scisca on 13 July 2014
HylianSwordsman said:
Kai Master said:

Tencent is the biggest editor in the world, ahead of Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, EA, A-B, etc. But classic Western editors don't see the money ^^ Completly different market and playing habits.


Wow, this whole time I never even heard of Tencent, yet having just looked it up it's apparently the 4th biggest company in the world! O.O


Dude, improve your reading skills It's the 4th biggest internet company in the world after Google, Amazon and E-bay. It's not the 4th company in the world, in fact it's worth less than half of Microsoft.

It's still massive though. China is getting out of hand...



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HylianSwordsman on 14 July 2014
Scisca said:


Dude, improve your reading skills It's the 4th biggest internet company in the world after Google, Amazon and E-bay. It's not the 4th company in the world, in fact it's worth less than half of Microsoft.

It's still massive though. China is getting out of hand...


Ah. Good catch, thanks. I thought that seemed a bit fishy. Either way, China is a force to be reckoned with if the gaming industry can break into it with consoles.



Kai Master on 27 August 2016

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Teeqoz on 27 August 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
Thanks for the link

Always wondered about this, shows how important localisation is.

It doesn't though. This list isn't split by language, it is split by country. OP has just used the country language instead of the country name, which is misleading. All those gamers in France could be playing in English. (technically)



Fei-Hung on 27 August 2016

Surprised to see Arabic that high up since it is such a small minority in the world who speak it compared to English or other European languages.



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burning_phoneix on 27 August 2016
Fei-Hung said:
Surprised to see Arabic that high up since it is such a small minority in the world who speak it compared to English or other European languages.

Arabic is the 5th most Spoken language in the world with 422 million speakers. For a comparison, the number of French speakers is 220 million.

 

In that case, Arabic is actually much lower than where it needs to be.

 

Also, why bump a thread from 2014?



Fei-Hung on 27 August 2016
burning_phoneix said:
Fei-Hung said:
Surprised to see Arabic that high up since it is such a small minority in the world who speak it compared to English or other European languages.

Arabic is the 5th most Spoken language in the world with 422 million speakers. For a comparison, the number of French speakers is 220 million.

 

In that case, Arabic is actually much lower than where it needs to be.

 

Also, why bump a thread from 2014?

I know there are different dialects of Arabic spoken throughout the world, but i was more surprised since most Arabic places are not known to be modern. Places like Jordan, Syria, Libya, Beirut etc. For example many Somalians speak a dialect of Arabic but the country isn't as developed. Syria we all know the score. 

 

From the 420 million people out there speaking Arabic, if you remove the war torn countries, countries with high poverty and countries that ain't modern unlike Dubai, Qatar etc, you are left with a very small number. 



niceguygameplayer on 27 August 2016

English being #1 is no surprise.



Ruler on 27 August 2016
RolStoppable said:
Surely this thread can't be accurate when it doesn't measure the language the games are in, but the language that is spoken in the individual countries.

i dont see the issue here , just counted all the countries together, he could have make it into cultures too. Its a good measurement to see which languages games should be translated for example.



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burning_phoneix on 28 August 2016
Fei-Hung said:
burning_phoneix said:

Arabic is the 5th most Spoken language in the world with 422 million speakers. For a comparison, the number of French speakers is 220 million.

 

In that case, Arabic is actually much lower than where it needs to be.

 

Also, why bump a thread from 2014?

I know there are different dialects of Arabic spoken throughout the world, but i was more surprised since most Arabic places are not known to be modern. Places like Jordan, Syria, Libya, Beirut etc. For example many Somalians speak a dialect of Arabic but the country isn't as developed. Syria we all know the score. 

 

From the 420 million people out there speaking Arabic, if you remove the war torn countries, countries with high poverty and countries that ain't modern unlike Dubai, Qatar etc, you are left with a very small number. 

Even if you take out those numbers, Arabic is still much too low.

If you take out the poorer nations that speak Portugese from the equation, that only leaves Portugal itself yet it managed to outsell all the Arab countries combined.

Italian is only mainly spoken in Italy, but it too outsells Arabic.