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I think that NoA runs Canada. Not sure about any other companies though.



http://listverse.com/2008/06/26/top-10-most-spoken-languages-in-the-world/

This might help?



 

Maybe Mandarin and Russian would be around 5-10?
Mostly PC gamers and shitloads of pirating, little or no data about those regions though.



Kai Master said:

Is their any study that sizes video game markets by langage ?

I was wondering which one between French and German langage video game markets were the biggest ? I know France and Germany ones have the same size but France can add French speaking Belgium and Swizerland, and Quebec, that's more than 12m people. And German can add Austria's 8.4m.

Also, are there any differences between France and Quebec in release dates and even French langage : is there any spacial localisation or does the Quebec market matches the France one ? Or maybe most Quebec gamers buy american games to don't wait European/French releases ?

Same question for all langages.

1/ English market by far : US+UK+CAN+AUS+...

2/ Japanese ? : Japan

3/ French ? (4th?) : France (63m, 100%), Belgium (11m, 42%) + Swiss (8m, 20%) + Quebec (8m, 85%) = 76m, but 12m additionnal speakers against 8m for German.

4/ German ? (3rd?) : Germany (82m) + Austria (8m) = 90m but German VG market = France VG market, so there's only 8m more speakers to beat France.

5/ Spanish ? (xth?) : Spain + Mexico + Latin america

6/ Italian ? (xth) : Italy (61m)

7/ Portuguese ? (xth?) : Brasil + Portugal


Most swiss people talk german, then there are a lot of french speaking swiss people then italian and then retoromanian(is that the english expression?) So swiss people probably spread themselves something like:

german 50%
french 40%
italian 8%
retoromanian 2%

Arround the world there are deffinatly more french speakers, but considering that a lot of the french speaking population has not enough money (a lot of countries in africa have french as their major language)

Also Austrians don't talk that f**thy german, whe speak Austrian damnit, they just made a farce out of our cool language and tried to rule over the world while we didn't *cough*, also the german spoke in switzerland isn't standard german its Schwiizerdütsch and its also better than german ;P

So yeah, 82mil. plus ~3mil. speakers in the US against France, Belgium, French-Switzerland, Quebec... ~86 plus some other people arround the world = 129 millions ;P minus the probably african part of that population 90 millions... now make consider gamers... hum Germans are more into PC gaming but I would think that probably both groups sum up to the same amout of gamers...



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Kai Master said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
Maybe Mandarin and Russian would be around 5-10?
Mostly PC gamers and shitloads of pirating, little or no data about those regions though.


I'm talking about the video game market business, not native speakers or pirates, just business, a pirate is not counted, if it were then maybe China would be the biggest county for video games !

So simply take which countries matter to you in this gaming question, and extrapolate the data from that link.  Quite Simple.



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