Why do 99% of videogames pander to white (especially American) audiences?

[Pristine20]

rocketpig said:

Pristine20 said:

mike_intellivision said:
Two interesting games

Capcom's 1942 -- Japanese company makes a game where you are trying to defeat Japan.

EA's Battlefield 1942: American company makes a game where you can play as US, UK, USSR, German, or Japanese soldier.

Is that the exception that proves the rule? (In other words, Japanese game-makers may over compensate whereas occasionally American ones will experiment).

Mike from Morgantown

 

 Ineteresting point you make there. But this shows that the main heros are not chosen at random as some people like to belive but you may be right that the Japanese overcompensate.

In response to the RE5 comments, I would have loved to see the internet response if RE5 featured a Darfur agent shooting down hordes of white zombies in Pittsburgh.

Honestly, I doubt there would have been much talk about it at all.

After all, the first RE games took place in the USA. I doubt the protagonist's skin color would matter one bit to most gamers.

OT: I think we see an overwhelming majority of white protagonists because of the industry. Historically, video games have been made by white people for white gamers. This is definitely changing but until there are a significant amount of non-white programmers and game developers, that probably won't change much.

It's not really racist, people just have a habit of gravitating toward what they know IMO.

 

I'm not sure about that one. Whites killing whites is a lot different from a Sudanese killing whites. It  won't matter to most gamers? Then why aren't developers taking the risk. Don't use games like San Andreas as examples because those games don't have heroes as leading men, they have villains.

For those using Altair as an example, the whole point is that Altair could pass for white  because some have even suggested that the so called "Aryans" originated from Iran anyway. All the counter-examples people use seem to have characters that would be considered white if not for the game's setting.