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Kai Master on 03 February 2012

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Kai Master on 03 February 2012

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Barozi on 03 February 2012
Kai Master said:
Stefl1504 said:


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...

You're right, I forgot german speaking Swiss, French is only 20% of pop and german must be something like 75% (Italian is 1%).

 

What do you mean by Swiss german and Austrian german are not german, video games sold there are not in german and are also a different version translated ?

nah he's just denying that his country doesn't have its own language but only a dialect :P
Also probably closer to high German than some other German dialects....

Swiss German however is kinda different.

Videogames in the European market have usually multiple languages on the disk. English, German, French being almost always included, followed by Italian, Spanish etc.



theprof00 on 03 February 2012
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


French is the most spoken language in the world. sorry.

You also can't call USA English when English is soon to be our second language.



theprof00 on 03 February 2012
Seece said:
http://listverse.com/2008/06/26/top-10-most-spoken-languages-in-the-world/

This might help?

You needn't go any farther than simply watch a world cup. The announcements are always done in order of "host country language", "descending # of speakers".

Your list is only the population of countries who speak that language as their first language. For example, most arabic countries are French as their second language with a very high bilingual rate. The entire population of countries like morocco speak french.



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Kynes on 03 February 2012
theprof00 said:
Seece said:
http://listverse.com/2008/06/26/top-10-most-spoken-languages-in-the-world/

This might help?

You needn't go any farther than simply watch a world cup. The announcements are always done in order of "host country language", "descending # of speakers".

Your list is only the population of countries who speak that language as their first language. For example, most arabic countries are French as their second language with a very high bilingual rate. The entire population of countries like morocco speak french.


There are parts of Morocco where Spanish is the mostly used language (the old Spanish protectorate, at the north) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Protectorate_of_Morocco



Troll_Whisperer on 03 February 2012

I can only say that in games with language selection screens the order is usually this: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian.

So I guess that's the order from biggest to smallest (in PAL territories, not counting Japan).



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theprof00 on 03 February 2012
Kynes said:
theprof00 said:
Seece said:
http://listverse.com/2008/06/26/top-10-most-spoken-languages-in-the-world/

This might help?

You needn't go any farther than simply watch a world cup. The announcements are always done in order of "host country language", "descending # of speakers".

Your list is only the population of countries who speak that language as their first language. For example, most arabic countries are French as their second language with a very high bilingual rate. The entire population of countries like morocco speak french.


There are parts of Morocco where Spanish is the mostly used language (the old Spanish protectorate, at the north) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Protectorate_of_Morocco

Why even bother kynes



italo244 on 03 February 2012

Brazil + Portugal population = 204m



happydolphin on 04 February 2012
RolStoppable said:
Kai Master said:
In fact, I'd like to know if a company translate a game into German or French which would be the most important market in $ sales or units sold : French (France+Quebec+Belgium+Swiss) or German (Germany, Austria and Swiss) ?
That's the point of the question.

They are about equally important. If a company intends to do a translation, then it's almost always both, French and German. The next level is adding Spanish and Italian. Occasionally Dutch gets added to the mix. So these are the common language mixes for the European market:

 

  • 1. English only.
  • 2. English, French, German.
  • 3. English, French, German, Spanish, Italian.
  • 4. English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch.
You will have a hard time finding exceptions to this rule. One would be Chrono Trigger for the DS which only features English and French, but that's not because of the European market, but the American. Square-Enix decided to do the French-Canadians a favor, but couldn't be bothered to do additional translations for the European version.

 

How do you know about French Canadians? It beats me how knowledgeable some of you peole are. Indeed Canada is a bilingual country, so most our game boxes and instructions are in both French and English. However, our games are not translated, only the boxes and manuals are. If ppl want a french copy they generally need to get a Ubi game or a PAL copy from my experience. No square game I've bought and played here was translated in French.

Also, more general knowledge (which you probably already know) most French Canadians live in the province of Quebec, where I'm born (Montreal actually, lived there 26 years). I'm perfectly bilingual.