Eurogamer: Zelda's launch timing in Europe is still unclear.

[Barkley]

Ka-pi96 said:

Barkley said:

That doesn't matter though as UK & Ireland are still part of Europe, yeah it doesn't include European countries that are not members of the EU in those statistics, but as learning english is pretty much standard in most European schools and as gamers have grown up with the internet and such I think that well over 50% of Gamers in Europe have sufficient English skills.

It does though, since they`d push the percentage of English speakers up quite considerably. So if they were included in that 51% then the actual % for non-English countries would be much lower.

Yeah but it doesn't because UK & Ireland are presumably affected by the delay. So the majority of people they are denying the game to would have sufficient language skills to play it english anyway.

I played a game online quite substantially (2000+ hours) and was amazed that literally everyone spoke english, when I was one of the minority that was actually from a native english country.

For Gamers english is the standard international language.