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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by MikusR on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:29AM (#37735869)
By what metric? Top 3 games by units sold are american. By revenue they are in top 4 with games made in 80s and top spot is a Korean game.
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by toxinu on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:41AM (#37735957)
I don't really care and thought about a specific metric.

If you have experience in the video game industry, then I think you get my point but I also enjoy arguing about metrics.

In this case the "actor" was referring as a role in the industry so more about an aggregation of metrics I guess.

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by hackideiomat on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:34AM (#37735907)
Place 4 is from Japan tho
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by rdlw on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:07PM (#37745671)
> Top 3 games by units sold are american

Counting Minecraft and Tetris as American games? I suppose Microsoft bought Minecraft and EA licensed Tetris, but that seems to speak more to the business sense of American publishers than quality of American software development.

Eleven out of the twenty best-selling games are Japanese, and 28 out of the top 50.

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by lmm on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:59PM (#37746145)
> By what metric? Top 3 games by units sold are american.

The top 3 games by units sold were made respectively in Stockholm, Edinburgh and Moscow. How exactly do you figure that makes them "american"?

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by MikusR on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:19PM (#37770225)
The particular mobile version of EA published Tetris was made in Moscow?

Also none of those are Japan.

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by lmm on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @08:35PM (#37773533)
> The particular mobile version of EA published Tetris was made in Moscow?

No, but if someone e.g. dubs (and perhaps even recuts) a film for the local market, we would generally still consider it to be "from" the place it was originally made.

> Also none of those are Japan.

Sure, just trying to puncture the americocentrism a little.

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