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iStrikeFirst on 15 December 2014

Bad attempt at trying to be thedrill 0/10



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cfin2987@gmail.com on 15 December 2014
captain carot said:
@ cfin2987@gmail.com:
Just to take it short, got some work to do:
I think to some degree it's that way because the US is extremely good at culture export via TV, Movies... whereas the small european entertainment industries are not.


Dude, if you got to Ireland, a tiny country with 4 million people, we have dozens of famous actors(Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, half of game of thrones, Pierce Brosnan etc etc), movies, Bands, Music and even TV shows. We have our own TV channels, your's and the UK's to view. Although Hollywood has made the US what it is in image, it is not much more than the entirity of all of the European nations combined. You wouldn't know though, because you speak English, as do I.



UnknownFact on 15 December 2014
naruball said:

Sorry, OP, but you seem to be very misinformed. There are too many problems with your arguments and you're using the word "fact" wrong, which is one of my biggest pet peeves.

For one thing, the wii was insanely successful and made ninty tons of money even without those services.


We may have one thing in common.



N.Grim on 15 December 2014

Wat



Conina on 15 December 2014
Davman said:

U.S..A. Population 319,259,000 - 4.43% of World Population

U.S.A. GDP (nomimal) 16,768 Trillion of US$ - 22,5% of World GDP

U.S.A. Total Public Debt: over 18 trillion of US$ and counting... 30% of World's total public debt (60 trillion) ;)



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sales2099 on 15 December 2014

My comment may be self-serving, but I see nothing wrong with placing emphasis on the country/continent where you actually live. Seeing as most of us on a .com web site hail from NA, excuse us if we place more importance on what our peers play more then what tastes are across the ocean.



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TheBlackNaruto on 15 December 2014
sales2099 said:
My comment may be self-serving, but I see nothing wrong with placing emphasis on the country/continent where you actually live. Seeing as most of us on a .com web site hail from NA, excuse us if we place more importance on what our peers play more then what tastes are across the ocean.


But that's the issue....if that was what he was saying then it would be different. But it was not...hence the reason folks were having an issue. You are not saying US=world you are just saying you put the most preference where you live.



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DonFerrari on 15 December 2014

Well I'm pretty sure Brazilians have a better understanding of America and Europe culture, history, politics than you guys have from us, and would say the same happens on other small countries. It's quite normal for the uneducated population of dominant places to ignore information about dominated while the dominated will know quite well about their dominators.

Anyway my company had like 90-95% of its profit in USA, their goal to growth is expand WW... nowadays they are more torwards 25% RoW... so please don't say Murika=World on a market that USA represents 40% of all when even markets that are 90% american are trying to go WW to improve earnings.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 15 December 2014
sales2099 said:
My comment may be self-serving, but I see nothing wrong with placing emphasis on the country/continent where you actually live. Seeing as most of us on a .com web site hail from NA, excuse us if we place more importance on what our peers play more then what tastes are across the ocean.


The thing is the site creator is british.

And even if USA is the most important single market it don't equals world. Simple as that.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Aura7541 on 15 December 2014
DonFerrari said:

The thing is the site creator is british.

And even if USA is the most important single market it don't equals world. Simple as that.

Yep. It's very important to appeal to a wider variety of gamers rather than just one demographic. This is why the PS4 doing exceptionally well in Europe and the ROW markets (e.g. Middle East, Taiwan, Phillipines, Signapore, Australia. etc.). Being a more universally accepted console also helps make the PS4's library more diverse, which will in turn, not only appeal to fans of certain genres of the markets I mentioned, but also in the US market.