Closing in on 8% if you filter it by “English language only”. Chinese speakers overwhelmingly (almost exclusively) use Windows and make up about 30% of all Steam users, which skews the rest-of-world results. And I wouldn’t consider 8% of all prospective sales to be a joke, especially since that number only keeps on rising and by the time you’ve spent a few years writing a game it’s likely to be quite a bit more.
If you exclude non English language, you have to exclude their sales too… unless you’re suggesting the Chinese users that make up 30% of steam users don’t buy anything…
True. Was thinking of indie games, of the kind I might develop myself., which would be limited to the languages I speak myself.
If you’re developing something where you’d expect enough international sales to hire a translation team, then Chinese would be a sensible first choice, followed by Spanish.
no it’s followed by Japanese. Japan is the third largest market by videogame revenue. Sure Spanish is spoken by a large portion of the world population, but the video game revenue the Spanish speaking countries generate isn’t as large as that of Japan. Latin-American countries are middle income countries and if you sell games there you have to sell them at localized pricing. In Japan you can sell your game at around the same price as you’d sell the game in the US and the EU.
Closing in on 8% if you filter it by “English language only”. Chinese speakers overwhelmingly (almost exclusively) use Windows and make up about 30% of all Steam users, which skews the rest-of-world results. And I wouldn’t consider 8% of all prospective sales to be a joke, especially since that number only keeps on rising and by the time you’ve spent a few years writing a game it’s likely to be quite a bit more.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
Why stop there? If you filter it by “users not using windows” we can get that number over 90%!
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Hey! I’ll have you know that 100% of steam users * are using linux.
* sample size : me
We should survey the linux_gaming community. That will give us a larger sample size that’s definitely representative of the broader trends
If you exclude non English language, you have to exclude their sales too… unless you’re suggesting the Chinese users that make up 30% of steam users don’t buy anything…
I mean…they considered piracy, and cheating, valid for a long time.
True. Was thinking of indie games, of the kind I might develop myself., which would be limited to the languages I speak myself.
If you’re developing something where you’d expect enough international sales to hire a translation team, then Chinese would be a sensible first choice, followed by Spanish.
no it’s followed by Japanese. Japan is the third largest market by videogame revenue. Sure Spanish is spoken by a large portion of the world population, but the video game revenue the Spanish speaking countries generate isn’t as large as that of Japan. Latin-American countries are middle income countries and if you sell games there you have to sell them at localized pricing. In Japan you can sell your game at around the same price as you’d sell the game in the US and the EU.
Japan generates about $26 billion in video game revenue while Latam around $13 billion and Spain €2.4 billion according to these sources
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/horizon/outlook/video-game-market/japan
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/horizon/outlook/video-game-market/latin-america
https://aevi.org.es/el-sector-del-videojuego-crecio-en-2024-con-una-facturacion-record-de-mas-de-2-408-millones-de-euros-y-22-millones-de-jugadores/ (FYI they use dots as a thousand separator in the 2.408 millones de euros)
Don’t put words in my mouth. I never said it’s a joke.
It kinda just irrelevant, if you target mass market. But not a joke.
8% is irrelevant?
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