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Which region makes the best games

Europe 95 23.57%
 
Japan 227 56.33%
 
North America 81 20.10%
 
Total:403
RolStoppable said:
Poll results show Japan winning with ease. Looks like Snoopy's criteria got overruled.

 Yeah, nobody (me included) was reading the OP before taking the poll. The AAA distinction is hard anyways, nobody looks up the budget of games.



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Europe also has...
Remedy(Max Payne, Alan Wake, Quantum Break)
Dontnod Entertainment(Life is strange, Remember Me)
Playground Games (Forza Horizon)
Moon Studios(Ori and the Blind Forest)

Europe is very underestimated when it comes to videogames.



Europe, because Grand Theft Auto, Battlefield, Minecraft, Euro Truck Simulator and countless niche games you can't find anywhere else.

2nd is Japan, because Nintendo.

USA is last for me. They push out a hell lot of games over there, but imo lack quality in comparison with japan and europe.



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Excluding handhelds it's quite close, but I think Japan still makes the best games.



North America, almost exclusively due to Canada.

Bioware
Eidos Montreal
The Coalition
Capcom Vancouver
EA Canada
Relic Entertainment
Ubisoft Montreal
Ubisoft Quebec

etc.



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Mnementh said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Ubisoft may be French, but most of their games come from Ubisoft Montreal so aren`t made in Europe

 I wouldn't say most. Montreal has Assassins Creed. Also I see after Ubisoft bought Farcry from Crytek who made the first entry was going to Ubi Montreal. Besides that: Rayman, Rabbids, Beyond Good and Evil (Montpellier, France), Just Dance (Paris, France), Anno (BlueByte, Germany), ZombiU (Bucharest, Rumania). And many, many of the other games come from different Ubisoft studios. Montreal can't do all, but two big series is something already. Everything Michel Ancel develops basically stays in France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Ancel

Actually most of Ubisoft's big hitters are from Canada.

AC, Far Cry, Rainbow Six, Watch Dogs, Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia.
Not all of them started there, but the last few games in their series are all from there.

Out of the big ones, Just Dance is basically the only one not from Canada.



Barozi said:

Actually most of Ubisoft's big hitters are from Canada.

AC, Far Cry, Rainbow Six, Watch Dogs, Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia.
Not all of them started there, but the last few games in their series are all from there.

Out of the big ones, Just Dance is basically the only one not from Canada.

You forgot Rayman, The Crew and The Division and a few others that I would considerto be  big hitters but yea Ubisoft Montreal is a monster in the video game industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubisoft_Montreal



Japan >>> Europe > North America



Hands down North American region ...

For a long time I thought Japanese games used to be the leaders in terms of quality but that has dramatically changed and not in a good way since there's hardly any viable AAA Japanese game franchises left aside from the shrinking players left ...

Most of the startups have straight up disappeared from the scene, went defunct, and are no longer making games anymore ...

There are very few recognizable Japanese game developers left, Sega, Capcom, Nintendo, Koei Tecmo, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, Konami and about half of them have their futures at stake in the next decade ...

Many of the once great figures like Miyamoto, Sakaguchi, Kojima are long past their primes and it's going to be hard to replace them ... (I wonder if we're even going to get a new renaissance in Japanese gaming as it would be a shame that a once affluent gaming culture falls under.)



Minecraft was made in Sweden.



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