western English speaking cultures greatest contribution to video games is the FPS genre. From quake and goldeneye to halo and COD, Americans and English have a genre of their own outside the dominating video game influence of Japanese design. The Xbox was the catalyst for a lot of PC-exclusive devs from the 90s to create games on a format that is traditionally dominated by Nintendo, sega, capcom and squaresoft and there obviously is a huge market for it in NA and UK.