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USA, naturally. Followed by UK and Finland!



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ZenfoldorVGI said:
...whatever country Blizzard is located in, obviously.

In all seriousness though. It is now, and shall always be a contest between Japan and America. I know it's a cool little factoid shocker to bust out Americans by making them realize that their country isn't necessarily the best producer of something...but come on. In this case, it's clearly between the two juggernauts. The vastly spread out gaming industry only really concentrates in two places.

This is one of those rare times I'll quote you and say that i agree. No doubt a lot of countries has talented developers, but if we base it purely on country, it's between those two. Region however, would tell a different story.

 



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Japan of course! But the US and UK also have good studios.



Japan: Capcom, Namco Bandai, Konami, Tecmo/Koei, Square-Enix, Sony Japan, Nintendo, Sega.... I think this is more then enough ;)



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Japan. Simple as that.



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As a single country I'm going to have to say the USA, but that's just because they're several times bigger than any other country that's relevant to the gaming industry. I won't admit you guys being superior to the whole of the EU, though. =P



US, hands down. Japan may have more of the big name long-time companies, but lets face is... the majority of this generation's great games are coming from the US. And the greatest PC games have been coming from the US for much longer. But yes, as some have mentioned, Blizzard alone tips the scales quite a bit.



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PelshyX5499X334279YZ said:

I would guess that it would be between the US with Epic, Irrational games, Rockstar, Bethesda, Valve, Bioware, Infinity Ward, Bungie, and a ton more that I can't think of and Japan with Capcom,Team Ninja, Square Enix, Konami, Nintendo, and another ton more that I forgot about.  What do you guys think?  I would guess that mostly every hardcore gamer would side with Japan, but at the same time some of their franchises are getting outdated. Don't get mad if I missed your favorite company, you can just put it in your post. (Blizzard might be a US company so correct me if I'm wrong) 

 

 Thought Rockstar were from UK?

I'd say UK is becoming more and more important

GTA4

LBP

Fable 2

Tomb Raider

Grid

Fuel

Lord of the rings

Psygnosis (now called Sony Studios)

Rebellion Making AVP 3

Football Manager one of the biggest selling pc games

etc etc

As for the Blizzard thing they are technically French as they are owned by Vivendi :)