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Kai Master on 04 February 2012

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Kai Master on 04 February 2012

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Kai Master on 04 February 2012

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Kai Master on 04 February 2012

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theprof00 on 04 February 2012
Kai Master said:
theprof00 said:
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.


Your comment made me laugh ^^ I think you were not serious by saying "French is the most spoken language in the world. sorry."

Yeah, I know that Spanish is pushing hard in the south of the US, but is it really threatening the whole US English langage? I've read that' there's no official langage in US, and that's just a question of demographics. Maybe if you open the borders to mexicans and legalize them English is doomed ! ^^

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1825/about-one-four-americans-can-hold-conversation-second-language.aspx

350m Americans * .25 *.17 another 15 million french speakers in america who aren't french but speak it. You do this around the world

http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t15458.htm

Learn your self:

French followed by German are the most popular foreign languages in the world. That means that even if the francophone population is one number, In the rest of the world, the other 6,000,000,000 people mostly learn english then french then german.

I know this doesn't prove that French is the most spoken language, but I hope it illustrates to you that I know what I'm talking about. I'm not going to run a class on the subject, so whatever you want to believe, go for it.



ghettoglamour on 04 February 2012

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italo244 on 04 February 2012
Kai Master said:
italo244 said:
Brazil + Portugal population = 204m


No, don't forget we're talking about video game markets, not just population, Brazilian market is far from being as big as France or Germany ones. At least up to recently, I'm looking forward VGC to add new markets to the weekly sales. But before Brazil they will surely add Canada, Spain, Italy and Australia.

I see...



Stefl1504 on 04 February 2012
Barozi said:
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.

Austrian was in fact declared by some language congress as a different language than german, because of specifical gramatical structures in spoken language as well as additional/different vocabluary in written/spoken language, for naming several examples:

Austrian vs. German

Paradaiser - Tomate
Türken/Kukuruz - Mais
Eierschwammerl - Pfifferling
Erdäpfel - Kartoffel
Tixo - Tesafilm
Topfen - Quark
Marmelade - Konfitüre
Semmel - Brötchen

You can also get Marmelade in Germany but it won't be the same thing you get in Austria, you can also get Brötchen in Austria but it won't be the same you get in Germany



(I know most of the things above are just food but anyway ;P)

We have our own Austrian Dictionary, differentiating Spelling from german.

Austrian was declared it's own language because it has every aspect a language needs to be a language - different Dialects, its own historical developement, a differenting Grammar from other related languages, unic way of spelling, pronounciation and grammar, all given to the Austrian Language, it's the same as Schwiizerdütsch is not German, while Austrian and German are really similar languages and you probably don't have problems understanding one another, but thats just the same as slovene, croatian and other languages spoken in the former jugoslavia.



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Barozi on 04 February 2012
Stefl1504 said:
Barozi said:

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.

Austrian was in fact declared by some language congress as a different language than german, because of specifical gramatical structures in spoken language as well as additional/different vocabluary in written/spoken language, for naming several examples:

Austrian vs. German

Paradaiser - Tomate
Türken/Kukuruz - Mais
Eierschwammerl - Pfifferling
Erdäpfel - Kartoffel
Tixo - Tesafilm
Topfen - Quark
Marmelade - Konfitüre
Semmel - Brötchen

You can also get Marmelade in Germany but it won't be the same thing you get in Austria, you can also get Brötchen in Austria but it won't be the same you get in Germany



(I know most of the things above are just food but anyway ;P)

We have our own Austrian Dictionary, differentiating Spelling from german.

Austrian was declared it's own language because it has every aspect a language needs to be a language - different Dialects, its own historical developement, a differenting Grammar from other related languages, unic way of spelling, pronounciation and grammar, all given to the Austrian Language, it's the same as Schwiizerdütsch is not German, while Austrian and German are really similar languages and you probably don't have problems understanding one another, but thats just the same as slovene, croatian and other languages spoken in the former jugoslavia.

And you really think that makes it any different to other German dialects ?
Because everything you just said can be applied to them with ease.