Hey guys, I am very sorry for the mistake at 7:06 and all following moments where we wrongly used the Costa Rica flag in place of the Thailand flag. This was a BIG mistake and oversight on our part. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
My cousin from Mexico came to live with us and was confused how I didn’t know this game. He said it was super popular but I never heard of it. Good to know that this is the reason why.
@@dahscreamingeagle3473 at least we know geography mate, gringos will be reading your comment and thinking you're talking about Florida, Alabama or Texas xD
I have a game recommendation, its peaceful and pretty, and has some lore, and requires a bit of research as there is some old content that can't be accessed anymore. Also every person you see is a player. So MatPat, I suggest you check it out, you could make a possible theory over it. Its called Sky: Children of The Light.
How the heck did i manage to guess you would say scotl i played it for a year before getting bored It requires grinding everyday to get cosmetics or you could just hang out with your friends
I'm from Brazil and everyone here has always known this game, but honestly, those who actually play the games never intended to play it, only people who don't have the conditions.
The fact that there's so many sea of thieves assets in this video, makes me really want a theory on the game, especially with all the unanswered lore in the books
The main gripe with this video is Mat being "surprised" that other countries exist, but rather, I think this video just goes to show that the English speaking side of youtube has been boxed in by the big three markets (japan, us, and europe) and I feel it's a valuable lesson. I'm Jamaican, and so much of my experience being mostly socialized through the internet primes me to be being oriented to think that way, because the english speaking audience just, tends not to interact with other regions and I think that a big name mentioning this will help better globalize the youtube experience and let all of us smaller countries feel a little bit more seen online.
It more has to do with the fact that we have better games and freedoms that allow us to have a diverse range of games that fit our personal preferences. Meanwhile in those countries they are heavily restricted as to what they can play as well as the availability of games, so all the people who download games only have a limited pool to choose from and hence there being that many downloads of those games as well as a more equal gender balance in it, due to them not having a choice as to what they can to pick that fits their personal preferences. Imagine the only vegetable in your grocery store are potatoes, well your going to have a disproportionate amount of people buying potatoes if you just look at the data and compare it to another country that has a diverse range of vegetables such as carrots, cucumbers etc.
@@Geographyandhistory2024 Yeah we are lol, maybe not as much as the US but being from the U.K. 99% of the games I play are by American, European or Japanese developers because they dominate the market
@@iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii7738 yep same, though I'd add there's also quite a few Chinese games becoming more popular, but yeah I'd say that the vast majority of games I'm aware of as a fellow European is from those three big markets.
I have a snack crate subscription and one of the countries we got it from was Thailand so I have the facts poster from it. I also have a world map with countries names, capitals, populations, land volume, and flag at the bottom. And I'm just a geography nerd in general so I was pained by this mistake by the editing team.
I think it's funny how other Americans never knew about it. It's extremely obvious that third world countries and/or countries with a predominantly poor population would have gaming catered to them. I think it's extremely closed minded of him to have not considered that these vast populations of poor people could 1. game, and 2. have internet access. It'll ever hit people in the US or Europe because there's just not a large enough impovershed audiance.
Its because game theorist is completely wrong. We dont know these games, because they are trash as you said. These games wont take over the western, its more likely high quality western games get more popular in eastern world as they get richer.
this is exactly why we are going through what I call the gaming depression. with all of these great games flying un heard of and unrecognised it leaves all of the triple A and mainstream gamers wondering when the next big hit Is out. this is shown more recently with the crappy release of COD vanguard and BF 2042.
I am so glad that Mat pointed out the huge genderfication of games. I'm a woman, and although I do enjoy Stardew Valley and the Sims 4, I ADORE Skyrim, Fallout 4, and The Long Dark. They were all marketed as male games, and TLD only had a male option to play as. But, I grew up with Skyrim, GTA V, Fallout games, and all different kinds of fighting games like Mortal Kombat and the like. I am so happy, and I hope that his assumption with the gaming market changing is true. It would make my whole existence to know that my siblings and my kids wont be subjected to American propaganda. I am even hopeful that this will help other companies realize that they can get more money and have less hassle, simply be not gendering their products, experiences, and companies as a whole.
I don't believe it's a forced split, just statistics on who plays those games more. Even with the arena of valor game it's still a 54-46 split which is pretty close. I don't believe anyone is saying this game is only for a certain gender, the stats are just stating who plays it more.
@@cy-taku3952 Is strange read that they are obscure in America cus they are super popular in Latin America. I know you are referring to the US but at first glance I interpret that as being the whole American continent
NGL, this is the kind of video that i prefer on game theory. It doesn't need to have a lot of them, but looking at gaming as a whole and exposing new games to the audience, makes great videos
While mobile gaming is still considered bad, I have to admit it's gone a long long way. Gone are the days of angry birds and pou. People are playing full blown MMOs on their phones now. And for once I'm genuinely excited for what mobile gaming has to offer. Phones have gotten stronger enough that they're becoming fully fledged gaming machines.
It's still the same you still get low quality & ads/micro-transactions everywhere it's just now you can sort of play an older low performance console game.
I am from India and when that Xbox came, want some game access, i laugh so hard I mean it's so true 😂😂 in India majority of people don't have the privilege to buy console or parents don't let them , that's why majority of people use either desktop or mobile devices to play games , even though I already know all games matpat said but country side people can't afford desktop or Xbox that's why they shifted to mobile games that's the reason some Asian games wooped up like freefire ,pubg
No that's just proof how isolated the east truly is compared to the globalized western world. And how circumstances dictate opportunity like the mobile market. It almost feels like the early days of isolated Japan. Anyways this video def is mindblowing.
Honestly. When he asked “why had we never heard of this? Why wasn’t it written about in all these American-based websites?” Immediately I was like, “because it’s a game popular in other countries that never really got played in the US”
I like how Mattpat's entire youtube iceberg is mainstream popular stuff. Man has barley scratched the surface. TH-cam's iceberg is deep with tons of illegal content that kinda gets brushed over deep down.
@@AgainWhy Yeah since Thailand flag have two red stripes and a blue one. Costa Rica have two blue stripes and only one red stripe (Sorry if my english sucks)
I actually remember learning how India was a major market for onlind companies because of its large population in Junior year, seeing that connect to this theory of how the US’s gaming market is about to change is actually astonishing to see
I’d like seeing Mat make a theory on Rain World one day. That game has a lot of obscure, scattered lore that I feel he would like working with. Plus, the story elements are rather unique.
@@intervertedperson845 It isn't a mobile game.. And it's published by Adult Swim. You're acting like you've researched this game but you really haven't. Quite embarrassing.
@@kridhay In Florida, Texas, the general South, and California you would be right. America is like... kind big so there are places that actually get cold during the winter (I used to live in a place that would regularly get to around -20C each year) but nobody really cares about anywhere that isn't Florida, Texas, or California so IDK man
@@Greebo4 america is massively varying in it's climate. where I live in the northeast US, during the summer it goes up to maybe 40C, but in the winter it gets to about -20 or so. When I briefly lived in California, however, the average temperature was never below 25C even in winter, and it only rained 4 times. Compare that to where I am now, where it rains at least 2 times a week, and you can see a few obvious variations.
I think the opposite. The North American gaming developers may start to market audiences outside of the North American market. Meaning potentially less of what we’ve grown to love in North America, and more games for whatever sells, and wherever, regardless of what North Americans like or want.
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@@tmotus84 India and China combined has way more potential customers than Europe, U.S, Japan, and South Korea combined, so it wouldn't be surprising to see gaming shift and target to them.
As someone who loves my MOBA games, I am so happy to see this type of information coming to light, and I am looking forward to seeing what comes out in the future and can't wait to get my hands on them 😁
9:30 Sorry to be this guy, but if you notice my avatar you'll understand why. That monster is a Malboro, not a Marlboro. But you used footage from the SNES Shadowrun for western RPGs, which is objectively one of the best games in existence, so we're good. ♥
I gotta say, I thought the title was click-bait, but it's true. And the intro, the whole opening your eyes, leaving the matrix thing? True as well. This should have more views. Really great video from GT.
Honestly, you made me remember this game. I had forgotten everything about it, I remember my whole class of primary school used to play that after they came back home from school, even my best friend. I downloaded it once and then never played it again. The only thing I remember is us on the lobby rolling around on snowballs, it was some kind of Christmas update that they had forgotten to take down. They eventually did take it down, I think ,I’m not sure though never stuck around for that long.
I'm from the Philippines and I've literally heard of all the games 5hat MatPat showed but I've never even once checked them out. Kinda surprised how big some of them actually are.
Same for me. I live in the middle east. I keep seeing ads but none of my friends play them since we are mostly fluent in English and that's not the language of most the players.
@@MagicalBread when Matpat mentioned The Witcher he didn't talk about downloads or purchases only about foreign games in general, also Minecraft isn't the only Swedish game bro
I'm Chinese American. I'm not saying that China is less sexist (there is DEFINITELY a lot of misogyny in China), but its sexism shows itself differently than it does in the West. And in many ways, its progressiveness towards gender also shows itself in different ways. Both cultures should learn from each other in this regard.
As someone from Brazil I was shocked when Matt said no one in his team knew about FreeFire I knew about it a long time ago and I skipped the whole battle royale craze.
Same, I'm from Indonesia and since it's like one of the most popular next to PUBG, AOV and MLBB (tho this one kinda died down), so honestly I expected atleast one person to know.
I am so incredibly happy that 11bit studios was mentioned, frostpunk is an amazing game, and if you are into survival / base builder / sandbox games, I would 100% recommend it
It's crazy how many of the top 10 most watched games on TH-cam are games that most people have never heard of! Personal timestamp at 6:04 for when I made it into a Game Theory video lol 🤣
Guys this game is extremely famous because its has extremely low requirements to play, its on mobile, mostly oriented to latin/south america and asian countries such as china and india, and made for kids; it hits every single requirement to be a huge game, but it hasn't caught on western media since Europe and North America have acces to better games with better quality, not a PUBG clone with 2001 graphics.
@@Sydien to be fair these countries also has "access" to better games but the number is not high. Here people can play console games or pc games by going to a gaming cafe or gaming parlour or can buy a good gaming PC(if they are from upper middle class family as many people don't see wasting money on games as important). And though people are playing freefire because of they have phones with 2gb ram, that's changing as more and more games are coming to mobile. Apex legends mobile nearly looks like apex legend pc and people with 3gb ram or more prefer more graphics heavy games like CODM or pubgm/BGMI that's why freefire Dev recently made a high end version of freefire.
The more i learn about game preferences between men and women, the more i feel its about in which social enviroments they play games. And then the trends make more sense quick. Men play games in their "man cave" on their computers or consoles. Wimen play games in more open social situations, thus more couch co-op or mobile phone focused. This also leads to the fitting trends i see with gender distributions in games, more then the game type itsself.
It's hard for us Latin Americans not to be involved in other countries' culture when gaming. There are 440 M people living in Latin America, and 220 M of them are Brazilian. When you join a fighting game, there's a 50% probability of fighting against a Brazilian and a 50% chance of fighting against someone from anywhere else.
The worst thing is that in most games the servers of South America are in Brazil so countries further away from Brazil such as Chile have to deal daily with having more than 150 ping
But yet some game companies (Nintendo👀) refuse to give us translated games lol (Davy Jones voice in my head).. not that I care actually... I think I'm more confused when playing in portuguese but it's sad when you ask a friend to play and he says "Nah.. it's not translated"
Yeah...most of us here in the states were well aware that the gaming industry is different all over the world. Did you forget that the American gaming industry was largely run by Japan for many years? I also find it quite humorous that you would use a wide brush to paint all Americans while asking us not to do the same to you. That's called hypocrisy...
Sad to report that game is Israeli, as if the treatment of the Palestinians wasn't bad enough, Israel had to come up with raid shadow legends... But mat is being way too American centric, all of Europe got a long history of game development, Poland didn't started to make video games with the Witcher and frost punk, heck, Tetris was a computer game in the USSR from the mid 80's, rare are British (20 minutes car ride from Leicester) Ubisoft are french, bullfrog were British, team 17 started making games for the amiga and they also British, croteam are from Croatia and also started at the Amiga, hitman as the series came from Denmark, paradox that makes crusader kings and such are Swedish and they started in the early 90's, Europe always made lot of video games.
@@LillyP-xs5qe who cares from which country it is. Its not like those people from the game company is at fault. Its the goverment. If russias goverment is not good should we judge all the people living there ??
@@freddyshams1787 it was a joke and ment as an example for a game from outside the USA and Japan, which matpat seen to forgot they exist, European games (culture wise Israel is definitely Europe) been around for ages, remedy is Finnish btw, mount and blade games come from Turkey! So many games came from Europe and yet for matpat it's like the first one is the Witcher
In India it's also very popular like 90% of boys play it and 20% girls play it.... The reason for this is even tho literally everybody in Indian cities has internet, but the internet is not good so they have to play mobile games with less connectivity needs
According to my friends that play the game, the 54% of female players in Honor of Kings are actually mostly caused by male players using a female account to be "better" treated in-game.
Also as a side note, the recent law in China that limits non-adult individuals to only play games for 3hours during weekends will probably hurt the gaming industry a lot.
That's true but the 54% women also isn't exaggerated I've been playing it for 5 years on and off most of my female friends, my girlfriend and her friends plays or played before and they aren't the gamer type of people. The game is popular in Asia and it's always the most profitable games except that time when their parent company Tencent(who also own Riot) launch pubg. The funny thing is Honor of King is a copycat of LoL before they bought Riot and then they got copy by Mobile Legend which also a successful game in Asia/SEA and beaten their own games like LoL wildrift(China+International) and Arena of Valor combined which is supposed to tackle Mobile moba outside of china.
This video took a turn from "dystopian secret world" to "We can look forward to an industry developing further and becoming more inclusive" and I love it
Pokémon is big in terms of all of their media and stuff... But the topic is just games, so no. Their games aren't as huge compared to others. Chinese games these days have more popularity.
The games are literally the least profitable part of Pokémon. Disheartening, to be sure, but that means every other aspect is more profitable. It's an interconnected web, where getting into one section makes you more vulnerable to the others. Then Pokémon opens its gaping maw, swallows you, and you don't realize what's happening until you're surrounding by merchandise.
As a fan of AoV, I was not aware it was basically a international version of a Chinese game, let alone the player base is dominantly women. Also, as an Australian, we have a lot of Asians here, so it's pretty easy to get into the games they like, which is what got me into mobile mobas in the first place.
You know what's interesting to me is that surveys never reflect the whole audience as not all players are honest, respond, or are included, so those statistics feel more like targeted surveys, which then falsely targets users... And thus Indy games that are more about the story or idea than the target/reception/money always seem to be the most fulfilling and talked about
@@sparcey8092 well, there is a science to sampling, and some parts of society have gotten pretty good at figuring it out, but I feel the game industry is quite far behind on that still, and the marketing, particularly in mobile games, is a great example, where the target is relatively small but they use a huge blanket to get to and find it, and it's almost all about the money, in sort of a sneaky way. MatPat has talked about that a bit before, but I feel like it kind of applies here too, just in a different way. I know nothing is going to be perfect, but I feel we can at least try a little bit harder, and I find it interesting to see what we as Americans are often blind to because of our media consumption. I always thought LoL was the biggest of its class, but now I'm learning that's not even close to true, and that (as he jokes) is the tip of the iceberg! Anyway, thanks for replying and engaging. Discussion and learning are my favorite parts of this channel!
@@riuphane We aren't Americans. We are also exposed to our respective cultures. There is a reason you don't know about these games, because you weren't interested until now. You can't blame media for not spoon feeding it to you.
Good to know that the editor is also a genshin addict kek. Mind you as a NZer we may have alot of similarities with the western world but I notice we are constantly influenced by our time zones, are friends are different, our humour is different (we are less sensitive is an example of have I noticed personally), and of course the topic of todays episode, our games are well mixed lol both western and eastern
i think his point is that if a game is that massive, then it would be at very least mentioned a little in america/europe and its surprising how it isn’t 💀
I knew Matpat was talking about Freefire, where I live literally every male plays it and is obsessed with it, my cousin, my classmates, even some of my female friends play it. Where I live it's really popular.
I think this just goes to show the difference of pop culture in different continents. I’m from Bangladesh a country in South Asia and almost all the games you mentioned are very popular here
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Hey guys, I am very sorry for the mistake at 7:06 and all following moments where we wrongly used the Costa Rica flag in place of the Thailand flag. This was a BIG mistake and oversight on our part. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
Hey game theorists!
YEP
dw about it
bruhhh lol
Go theory
"...and Candy Crush specifically having an audience of 83% women."
Our mothers: *No need to thank us.*
i was just thinking that, i wished he'd showed the demographics at that part
Just know whatever world record you just beat in a certain game moms who play candy crush could beat it without breaking a sweat
Dude my mom plays that game ALL THE TIME.
Bro my grandma has Candy Crush
@@samanthakelly718 everyones mom does
Game Theorists after making this video:
*"You know I'm something of a mobile ad myself"*
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My cousin from Mexico came to live with us and was confused how I didn’t know this game. He said it was super popular but I never heard of it. Good to know that this is the reason why.
i hate being in south america help, im done of sleeping with poor people
@@dahscreamingeagle3473 at least we know geography mate, gringos will be reading your comment and thinking you're talking about Florida, Alabama or Texas xD
well, this game is not well known in rich countrys because is terrible if you can play anything else
@@spacedrimon234jaja si
I have a game recommendation, its peaceful and pretty, and has some lore, and requires a bit of research as there is some old content that can't be accessed anymore. Also every person you see is a player. So MatPat, I suggest you check it out, you could make a possible theory over it. Its called Sky: Children of The Light.
Now way! I haven't played the Sky in a while, but it is a dam good game. I really hope Matpat sees your comment. A Sky theory would be awesome👍
How the heck did i manage to guess you would say scotl i played it for a year before getting bored
It requires grinding everyday to get cosmetics or you could just hang out with your friends
coming in late but yes! theres a lot of lore that could be explored
I'm from Brazil and everyone here has always known this game, but honestly, those who actually play the games never intended to play it, only people who don't have the conditions.
it actually surprised me people didnt know about it
Same
finnally,brazil got noticed lol
BRASIL, CAMPEÃO MUNDIAL
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The fact that there's so many sea of thieves assets in this video, makes me really want a theory on the game, especially with all the unanswered lore in the books
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OMG I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR SO LONG
YES
The main gripe with this video is Mat being "surprised" that other countries exist, but rather, I think this video just goes to show that the English speaking side of youtube has been boxed in by the big three markets (japan, us, and europe) and I feel it's a valuable lesson. I'm Jamaican, and so much of my experience being mostly socialized through the internet primes me to be being oriented to think that way, because the english speaking audience just, tends not to interact with other regions and I think that a big name mentioning this will help better globalize the youtube experience and let all of us smaller countries feel a little bit more seen online.
It more has to do with the fact that we have better games and freedoms that allow us to have a diverse range of games that fit our personal preferences. Meanwhile in those countries they are heavily restricted as to what they can play as well as the availability of games, so all the people who download games only have a limited pool to choose from and hence there being that many downloads of those games as well as a more equal gender balance in it, due to them not having a choice as to what they can to pick that fits their personal preferences. Imagine the only vegetable in your grocery store are potatoes, well your going to have a disproportionate amount of people buying potatoes if you just look at the data and compare it to another country that has a diverse range of vegetables such as carrots, cucumbers etc.
Well what are we going to do? Watch videos in other languages?
Living in Europe we are not in a bubble in terms of gaming like the usa
@@Geographyandhistory2024 Yeah we are lol, maybe not as much as the US but being from the U.K. 99% of the games I play are by American, European or Japanese developers because they dominate the market
@@iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii7738 yep same, though I'd add there's also quite a few Chinese games becoming more popular, but yeah I'd say that the vast majority of games I'm aware of as a fellow European is from those three big markets.
I like how when Matpat shows the youtube rewind 2019 video, he has also disliked it! Lmao!
Fun fact about Brazil's gaming: The Sega Master System only ceased production in 2018 there.
For me, its here.
And i thought my country was slow
Sai do meio dos gringo jamelão
Me an indonesian: brazil do u ready to lose?
Its a refference from e-sport btw
@@hideyourtacomiyazaki7219 Brazil are you ready to lose to Argentina?
i love how matpat puts so much effort in his videos, just watch that intro, this is so well made
Me, a Brazilian: * happy and curious watching *
Mat: * reminds of the abusive minimum wage *
Me: * sad and curious watching *
Matt, just letting you know that the flag during 7.10 is definitely not Thailand. The red and the blue are switching. Cheers from Thailand!
7:10
Seconded!
I have a snack crate subscription and one of the countries we got it from was Thailand so I have the facts poster from it. I also have a world map with countries names, capitals, populations, land volume, and flag at the bottom. And I'm just a geography nerd in general so I was pained by this mistake by the editing team.
@Geometry D Yeah I'm from costa rica an I thought he was gonna say costa rica lol
@@jorgeherrera9003 jajaja same
I love how the americans are just discovering this, here in Latin America it's just called a poor people game lmao
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I think it's funny how other Americans never knew about it. It's extremely obvious that third world countries and/or countries with a predominantly poor population would have gaming catered to them. I think it's extremely closed minded of him to have not considered that these vast populations of poor people could 1. game, and 2. have internet access. It'll ever hit people in the US or Europe because there's just not a large enough impovershed audiance.
@@bigdaddynero i agree, it's also well known here in Philippines
Its because game theorist is completely wrong. We dont know these games, because they are trash as you said. These games wont take over the western, its more likely high quality western games get more popular in eastern world as they get richer.
@@TheDool Genshin Impact literally took over the world last year
this is exactly why we are going through what I call the gaming depression. with all of these great games flying un heard of and unrecognised it leaves all of the triple A and mainstream gamers wondering when the next big hit Is out. this is shown more recently with the crappy release of COD vanguard and BF 2042.
I am so glad that Mat pointed out the huge genderfication of games. I'm a woman, and although I do enjoy Stardew Valley and the Sims 4, I ADORE Skyrim, Fallout 4, and The Long Dark. They were all marketed as male games, and TLD only had a male option to play as. But, I grew up with Skyrim, GTA V, Fallout games, and all different kinds of fighting games like Mortal Kombat and the like. I am so happy, and I hope that his assumption with the gaming market changing is true. It would make my whole existence to know that my siblings and my kids wont be subjected to American propaganda. I am even hopeful that this will help other companies realize that they can get more money and have less hassle, simply be not gendering their products, experiences, and companies as a whole.
Overall, men are just more interested in fps and violent games, hence they target them
I don't believe it's a forced split, just statistics on who plays those games more. Even with the arena of valor game it's still a 54-46 split which is pretty close. I don't believe anyone is saying this game is only for a certain gender, the stats are just stating who plays it more.
I’m actually and genuinely surprised when Matpat started talking about obscure games and I actually knew every single one mentioned
there obscure in America but not in Asia there really popular in Asia but not in America
@@cy-taku3952 true, children here in South East Asia are really loving these games
@@cy-taku3952 Is strange read that they are obscure in America cus they are super popular in Latin America. I know you are referring to the US but at first glance I interpret that as being the whole American continent
Same
That makes me wonder, why are these games not popular in the US
NGL, this is the kind of video that i prefer on game theory. It doesn't need to have a lot of them, but looking at gaming as a whole and exposing new games to the audience, makes great videos
Same one of my favorite episodes was the blue vs red theory
I thought this was gonna be about Tetris ngl, because it has more downloads than Minecraft
Why are so many p-corn bots in your comments?
While mobile gaming is still considered bad, I have to admit it's gone a long long way. Gone are the days of angry birds and pou.
People are playing full blown MMOs on their phones now. And for once I'm genuinely excited for what mobile gaming has to offer.
Phones have gotten stronger enough that they're becoming fully fledged gaming machines.
It's still the same you still get low quality & ads/micro-transactions everywhere it's just now you can sort of play an older low performance console game.
I am from India and when that Xbox came, want some game access, i laugh so hard I mean it's so true 😂😂 in India majority of people don't have the privilege to buy console or parents don't let them , that's why majority of people use either desktop or mobile devices to play games , even though I already know all games matpat said but country side people can't afford desktop or Xbox that's why they shifted to mobile games that's the reason some Asian games wooped up like freefire ,pubg
So in summary: the US gaming community just discovered that the rest of the world exists!
Literally though XD
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I'm from Brazil. This video really made laugh. Mat trying to say "techTudo" was the best.
No that's just proof how isolated the east truly is compared to the globalized western world. And how circumstances dictate opportunity like the mobile market. It almost feels like the early days of isolated Japan. Anyways this video def is mindblowing.
Honestly. When he asked “why had we never heard of this? Why wasn’t it written about in all these American-based websites?” Immediately I was like, “because it’s a game popular in other countries that never really got played in the US”
I like how Mattpat's entire youtube iceberg is mainstream popular stuff. Man has barley scratched the surface. TH-cam's iceberg is deep with tons of illegal content that kinda gets brushed over deep down.
it’s game theory not a nexpo video
Yeah. I know I’ve barely looked around and still know about some more disturbing TH-cam content.
13:58 "what where seeing right know is indeed just the tip of the iceberg"
You know he might get banned if he mentions some of things. Remember, he's a mainstream channel, so he could get banned very easily.
He wanted to do examples that everyone can understand without getting the focus off the main topic
MatPat opens up his world view and spreads it on his platform
Comments: You didn’t know that already? Typical American
Lol
Alternative Title: American discovers that the rest of the world also plays video games 😂
in this episode of game theory: Matpat discovers that Us and Japan arent the only countries in the world
XD so true
I think its more of that cultural stuff like he said. The indutries are so different there most just simply didnt hear or know about it.
@I care shut up
@I care more like fax machine
But that’s just a theory
Matt : talk about Thailand.
Matt : Show the picture of Costa Rica’s flag.
I saw that and laugh soo hard
WHAT
@@AgainWhy Yeah since Thailand flag have two red stripes and a blue one.
Costa Rica have two blue stripes and only one red stripe
(Sorry if my english sucks)
@@SomeRandyDay your english is just fine
@@SomeRandyDay I didn't know that.
a bit late, but I actually guessed the game correctly, I have many chinese students in my class and one used to be an honor of kings pro.
I actually remember learning how India was a major market for onlind companies because of its large population in Junior year, seeing that connect to this theory of how the US’s gaming market is about to change is actually astonishing to see
I’d like seeing Mat make a theory on Rain World one day. That game has a lot of obscure, scattered lore that I feel he would like working with. Plus, the story elements are rather unique.
I second the notion
AMEN I LOVE THAT GAME
I've seen so much of it and never got interested and is mostly because it's a mobile game and seen quite a bit of these
@@intervertedperson845 It's for PC and other consoles too
@@intervertedperson845 It isn't a mobile game.. And it's published by Adult Swim. You're acting like you've researched this game but you really haven't. Quite embarrassing.
MatPat: "shows a flag of Costa Rica"
Also MatPat: In thailand
This bothers me so much as a Costarrican :/
@@3richu Clearly, a subtle clue to the Game Theorists' secret project.
...
DARKIPLIER CONFIRMED
Flags are hard, even educators like Kurzgesagt or CGPGray get some wrong occasionally.
Cringe
The thing I find so interesting about the Witcher series is the influence of HEMA in the game. It’s truly fascinating to me
You can see that he disliked yt rewind 2019. He is a true gamer.
I did not expect to ever see channel in a game theory video wow 😭
congrats :D happy to see your videos here
Ok
In India is top game in India
i like your pfp
Lop
“Poland is in the middle of Europe, it is *cold* there”
Well yes, but also no.
I also wanted to refer to that. Do Americans don't have seasons? Today in South-west Poland was like 25 Celsius, but it's end of summer.
@@Greebo4 25 Celsius would be winter for them probably lol
@@kridhay In Florida, Texas, the general South, and California you would be right. America is like... kind big so there are places that actually get cold during the winter (I used to live in a place that would regularly get to around -20C each year) but nobody really cares about anywhere that isn't Florida, Texas, or California so IDK man
Depends. Some areas get super cold and some stay warm throughout
@@Greebo4 america is massively varying in it's climate. where I live in the northeast US, during the summer it goes up to maybe 40C, but in the winter it gets to about -20 or so. When I briefly lived in California, however, the average temperature was never below 25C even in winter, and it only rained 4 times. Compare that to where I am now, where it rains at least 2 times a week, and you can see a few obvious variations.
Mother’s who play candy crush on their phone ARENT gamers.
3:00 I love how even MatPat disliked the rewind 😂
Gotta love the 69% 'nice' note, and the breath of the waifu's joke
@@bellaanggy------------9078 no
@sweet girls ❤️ no reported :)
@@bellaanggy------------9078 wtf
This feels like the gaming industry is going to go through a "Support your local business" phase.
I think the opposite. The North American gaming developers may start to market audiences outside of the North American market. Meaning potentially less of what we’ve grown to love in North America, and more games for whatever sells, and wherever, regardless of what North Americans like or want.
Lmao the bots on this comment
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@@tmotus84 Which is kind of ironic since MatPat said that international companies focus their games on their own local culture.
@@tmotus84 India and China combined has way more potential customers than Europe, U.S, Japan, and South Korea combined, so it wouldn't be surprising to see gaming shift and target to them.
2:18 Oh, believe me, there are things way deeper Belle that that. We don't talk about that side of youtube.
As someone who loves my MOBA games, I am so happy to see this type of information coming to light, and I am looking forward to seeing what comes out in the future and can't wait to get my hands on them 😁
Hey Matpat, what happened to the companies exploding “sealed” NES games prices illegally? I’d love to see a video like that.
Karl Jobst has already made a great video on this.
Mat will not do that I bet yeah
hello, fellow Solaire
Yeah same
I would like this comment but its at 420 likes and I don't want to ruin it
“What’s the most popular 5v5 moba game right now?”
MatPat: LOL
@@pitohui7386 ?
I love the way I can find “your” comment (which was originally posted by Randa Ranatunga) in 50 seconds flat on Hadzy.
@@pitohui7386 uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Me : mlbb
@@HehehLOL101 same
"youll never se the industry the same way again" *proceeds to present information that changes nothing*
9:30 Sorry to be this guy, but if you notice my avatar you'll understand why. That monster is a Malboro, not a Marlboro. But you used footage from the SNES Shadowrun for western RPGs, which is objectively one of the best games in existence, so we're good. ♥
Preach chummer!
As a Brasilian I never expected that Matt would be talking about how shitty Brasilian minimum wage is on a video, that feel surreal.
Me too
yep, felt the same thing
Tá ótimo pra quem recebe em dólar
SAME
Pra tu ver o estado do país kKKKKKK rindo pra não chorar
As someone who lives in southeast asia, it wasn't a surprise. I've heard plenty about the game, despite not being a gamer
same guess it at the start xD
ikr im more surprised that people dont know this game exists.
Same
Same
Lol same i was so surprised its not popular in other countries
I gotta say, I thought the title was click-bait, but it's true. And the intro, the whole opening your eyes, leaving the matrix thing? True as well. This should have more views. Really great video from GT.
Honestly, you made me remember this game. I had forgotten everything about it, I remember my whole class of primary school used to play that after they came back home from school, even my best friend. I downloaded it once and then never played it again. The only thing I remember is us on the lobby rolling around on snowballs, it was some kind of Christmas update that they had forgotten to take down. They eventually did take it down, I think ,I’m not sure though never stuck around for that long.
I'm from the Philippines and I've literally heard of all the games 5hat MatPat showed but I've never even once checked them out. Kinda surprised how big some of them actually are.
I’m Hispanic and yeah the same situation. Heard about the games but never payed attention to them.
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Not even Minecraft or fortnite!? Seriously!? I live In Bangladesh, literal bangladesh and i still know about all this
@@Dumbsourplum u still know about what
Same for me. I live in the middle east. I keep seeing ads but none of my friends play them since we are mostly fluent in English and that's not the language of most the players.
Mat Pat:
**Talks about multicultural games**
**Forgets all the famous Swedish indie games**
noita?
@@sanicssj3628 Noita is a Finnish game.
Most downloaded vs most purchased are two separate statistics.
Minecraft is the most purchased game in existence, but not the most downloaded.
@@MagicalBread when Matpat mentioned The Witcher he didn't talk about downloads or purchases only about foreign games in general, also Minecraft isn't the only Swedish game bro
and that one russian game.
Shout out to my homies still playing Age of Empires 2. I get hyped for the Hidden Cup each year
"I've seen this one"
"How've you seen this one, it's rand new"
“Less gender discrimination” and China in the same script.
“Something’s wrong I can feel it”
I'm Chinese American. I'm not saying that China is less sexist (there is DEFINITELY a lot of misogyny in China), but its sexism shows itself differently than it does in the West. And in many ways, its progressiveness towards gender also shows itself in different ways. Both cultures should learn from each other in this regard.
@@janicel.6971 if they are forcing you to say this. Blink twice.
Funny how things turn out lmaoooo
@@janicel.6971 like what
I’d like to see the percentage of Muslim players in China. That would be interesting, right Matpat?
As someone from Brazil I was shocked when Matt said no one in his team knew about FreeFire I knew about it a long time ago and I skipped the whole battle royale craze.
It isn't really that popular in their place I guess.
And also there alot of kid play this
@@Flancc yeah
Same, I'm from Indonesia and since it's like one of the most popular next to PUBG, AOV and MLBB (tho this one kinda died down), so honestly I expected atleast one person to know.
I'd never heard of it either living in the Middle East too, that's strange.
I am so incredibly happy that 11bit studios was mentioned, frostpunk is an amazing game, and if you are into survival / base builder / sandbox games, I would 100% recommend it
7:05 I think that’s the Costa Rican flag
It's crazy how many of the top 10 most watched games on TH-cam are games that most people have never heard of!
Personal timestamp at 6:04 for when I made it into a Game Theory video lol 🤣
wait u are here😱😱
CONGRATS
👍 kairos made it
Ayo wat
Oh no...MATPAT! DON'T LISTEN TO HIM HE NOT THE REAL KAIROS TIME😱😱 THE REAL KAIROS IS KAIROS TIM
Seeing the intro just makes me wonder: what would have happened if Neo had taken both pills at once?
@Kiyosi Waki🔻 that would be your mother
Overdose
You sleep in wonderland and wake up in a new reality.
seizure
Hero Swap's The Matrix with Forest Gump... He took both pills. Go check it out.
I was honored by the short, brief cameo appearance of risk of rain 2's title.
When he said don’t hug me i’m scared i think he forgot to mention Happy Tree Friends
Guys this game is extremely famous because its has extremely low requirements to play, its on mobile, mostly oriented to latin/south america and asian countries such as china and india, and made for kids; it hits every single requirement to be a huge game, but it hasn't caught on western media since Europe and North America have acces to better games with better quality, not a PUBG clone with 2001 graphics.
@Ony ! lmao can't I speak english because im mexican?
@@Sydien lol cause of your name i thought you were Brazilian
@@RefriDeUva vargas is probably the most mexican family name I can think of lol
@@Sydien well, we even had a president with that name so i suppose it's common here as well. Idk it was the first thing that came to mind haha
@@Sydien to be fair these countries also has "access" to better games but the number is not high. Here people can play console games or pc games by going to a gaming cafe or gaming parlour or can buy a good gaming PC(if they are from upper middle class family as many people don't see wasting money on games as important). And though people are playing freefire because of they have phones with 2gb ram, that's changing as more and more games are coming to mobile. Apex legends mobile nearly looks like apex legend pc and people with 3gb ram or more prefer more graphics heavy games like CODM or pubgm/BGMI that's why freefire Dev recently made a high end version of freefire.
Now that MatPat acknowledged the game, there's no running away from it. WE NEED A STARDEW VALLEY MR QI THEORY. I see you MatPat. I SEE YOU.
YES
YES WE DO WE DO!!
YES HE SHOWED STARDEW VALLEY LOGO IN VIDEO!!
ITS A SIGN!!
@Mitsuka Chan🌹 go away
Agreed
The more i learn about game preferences between men and women, the more i feel its about in which social enviroments they play games.
And then the trends make more sense quick.
Men play games in their "man cave" on their computers or consoles.
Wimen play games in more open social situations, thus more couch co-op or mobile phone focused.
This also leads to the fitting trends i see with gender distributions in games, more then the game type itsself.
Siri on the Mario party DS anti-piracy scream
It's hard for us Latin Americans not to be involved in other countries' culture when gaming.
There are 440 M people living in Latin America, and 220 M of them are Brazilian. When you join a fighting game, there's a 50% probability of fighting against a Brazilian and a 50% chance of fighting against someone from anywhere else.
The worst thing is that in most games the servers of South America are in Brazil so countries further away from Brazil such as Chile have to deal daily with having more than 150 ping
Im Brazilian and UR GOING TO BRAZIL
But yet some game companies (Nintendo👀) refuse to give us translated games lol (Davy Jones voice in my head).. not that I care actually... I think I'm more confused when playing in portuguese but it's sad when you ask a friend to play and he says "Nah.. it's not translated"
@i am not dog I cannot believe it to be honest
Which country are you from, I'm from Guyana South America
Well... My mind is blown 🤯
🤯
Not mine
Boop
!!!
Ruh roh
HAH cool for matpat to talk about brazil. Even if for a bit
How could you make a mistake but your channel is super good anyways how could you make a mistake
"When american found out they are not the only gamer in the world"
"When Americans found out they should involve themself into the second worldwar
Yeah...most of us here in the states were well aware that the gaming industry is different all over the world. Did you forget that the American gaming industry was largely run by Japan for many years? I also find it quite humorous that you would use a wide brush to paint all Americans while asking us not to do the same to you. That's called hypocrisy...
@@Sinn0100 I was talking about Pearl harbor, wait i'm going to edit this
Lol yes
@@joko2882
I'm sorry my friend I didn't realize you were talking about Pearl Harbor.
I’ll be honest, I was half expecting Mat to yell “RAID SHADOW LEGENDS” in the beginning
Edit 1: How did get so many likes so fast lol
Sad to report that game is Israeli, as if the treatment of the Palestinians wasn't bad enough, Israel had to come up with raid shadow legends...
But mat is being way too American centric, all of Europe got a long history of game development, Poland didn't started to make video games with the Witcher and frost punk, heck, Tetris was a computer game in the USSR from the mid 80's, rare are British (20 minutes car ride from Leicester) Ubisoft are french, bullfrog were British, team 17 started making games for the amiga and they also British, croteam are from Croatia and also started at the Amiga, hitman as the series came from Denmark, paradox that makes crusader kings and such are Swedish and they started in the early 90's, Europe always made lot of video games.
@@LillyP-xs5qe It was just a joke
@@LillyP-xs5qe who cares from which country it is. Its not like those people from the game company is at fault. Its the goverment. If russias goverment is not good should we judge all the people living there ??
@@freddyshams1787 it was a joke and ment as an example for a game from outside the USA and Japan, which matpat seen to forgot they exist, European games (culture wise Israel is definitely Europe) been around for ages, remedy is Finnish btw, mount and blade games come from Turkey! So many games came from Europe and yet for matpat it's like the first one is the Witcher
@Yuki 😘👇 copied. Like, word for word
I wonder if you'll ever approach a Kitty Horror Show game.
That's something I'd like to see.
train sim world 2 requires a theory video and i wont stop until i get one
I wrote my undergraduate thesis about basically this, so it’s kind of cool to see that my thesis was close to accurate
Cool! I wrote a master thesis on this and got an A. Although those kinds of videos were what inspired me to choose this theme in the first place.
p
@@atienzadanielatienzad.juni5688 dude don't use your school account for commenting publicly. It's a bad idea.
But that's just a thesis, an undergraduate thesis!
7:28 matpat you can’t just put a costarica flag there without explaining it.
Matpat: Let's talk about FreeFire, this game no one knows about
Brazilians: Oh snap, here we go again...
Have u played it?
In India it's also very popular like 90% of boys play it and 20% girls play it.... The reason for this is even tho literally everybody in Indian cities has internet, but the internet is not good so they have to play mobile games with less connectivity needs
I'm Brazilian and I've *NEVER* heard about it.
@@kakahass8845 Mano em que buraco vc tava q tu nunca ouviu falar em fogo grátis???
Esse jogo ta em toda parte nesse país kkkkkkk
@@ayoo9789 yeah, they're like, steam kya hota hai?(the hell is steam?)
11:51 Shout out to Dragon Age: Inquisition with an almost 50/50 split of men and women players. One of my favorite games ever, to be honest.
The editor of this channel deserves praise.
According to my friends that play the game, the 54% of female players in Honor of Kings are actually mostly caused by male players using a female account to be "better" treated in-game.
Also as a side note, the recent law in China that limits non-adult individuals to only play games for 3hours during weekends will probably hurt the gaming industry a lot.
Yes, people know this. Its an old strategy
That's true but the 54% women also isn't exaggerated I've been playing it for 5 years on and off most of my female friends, my girlfriend and her friends plays or played before and they aren't the gamer type of people. The game is popular in Asia and it's always the most profitable games except that time when their parent company Tencent(who also own Riot) launch pubg. The funny thing is Honor of King is a copycat of LoL before they bought Riot and then they got copy by Mobile Legend which also a successful game in Asia/SEA and beaten their own games like LoL wildrift(China+International) and Arena of Valor combined which is supposed to tackle Mobile moba outside of china.
Is that an actual statistic or its just a guess
@@idontknowanymore2515 I mean, nobody here gave any statistics that MatPat didn't already say in his video
This video took a turn from "dystopian secret world" to "We can look forward to an industry developing further and becoming more inclusive" and I love it
The way i way gaming now is flipped entirely, but that's why i love watching The theory channels :))
11:11 ah yes, my typical soloq teammate, playing lol with a controller
I'm surprised, considering Pokemon is one of the biggest multimedia franchises, it was never mentioned in this video once
Not just one of, it is the biggest full stop
@@lemursyt_uzis the egg, isn’t exactly a mention more like a small reference
Pokémon is big in terms of all of their media and stuff...
But the topic is just games, so no. Their games aren't as huge compared to others. Chinese games these days have more popularity.
The games are literally the least profitable part of Pokémon. Disheartening, to be sure, but that means every other aspect is more profitable. It's an interconnected web, where getting into one section makes you more vulnerable to the others. Then Pokémon opens its gaping maw, swallows you, and you don't realize what's happening until you're surrounding by merchandise.
@@leacwm in terms of franchise as a whole containing merch and spin off products yes but in terms of games then no.
"I have a problem": **shows genshin characters**
Ah, yes. The whaling.
Dude, MiHoYo knows how to make people whale. Only reason I don't spend money on Honkai Impact is because I am broke
The logic: if its not popular in the states,”no one ever heard of it”
As a fan of AoV, I was not aware it was basically a international version of a Chinese game, let alone the player base is dominantly women. Also, as an Australian, we have a lot of Asians here, so it's pretty easy to get into the games they like, which is what got me into mobile mobas in the first place.
“With characters designs that also reflect the culture.” Shows cat girl.
Its a high quality Waifu/Husbando collector, catgirls are probably in the top 5 of many "cultured" people's waifus.
Keqing isn't a cat girl. That's her hair.
Anthropomorphic_Blob Let’s just pretend that we didn’t saw her normal ears…
7:28 matpat you can’t just put a costarica flag there without explaining it.
looks at description
League of Legends.
"It is not League of Legends"
surprised pikachu face
Imagine botting :)
German, the third times is the charm you know
@@justlixian293 true
Hi
You dont get out much or play video games do you? It was an obvious answer.
"Petscops at the bottom of the Iceburg" oh swee summer child... there's Icebergs where you wish that's the bottom of it.
Him saying we wont guess:
Me being a brazilian with lots of "gamer" (as they would say lol) guy friends:
That's what she said
"Ahh those annoying 99% of people can't do this ad"
SunTzu, the art of frustration
Is that a JoJo's reference
@@rouhanahmedkabir3941 Is THAT a JoJo reference?
@@foosansan7543 is that a JoJo's reference
You know what's interesting to me is that surveys never reflect the whole audience as not all players are honest, respond, or are included, so those statistics feel more like targeted surveys, which then falsely targets users... And thus Indy games that are more about the story or idea than the target/reception/money always seem to be the most fulfilling and talked about
I was just thinking the same thing!
Nothing every really reflects the entire audience because the audience is far to big anyway
@@sparcey8092 well, there is a science to sampling, and some parts of society have gotten pretty good at figuring it out, but I feel the game industry is quite far behind on that still, and the marketing, particularly in mobile games, is a great example, where the target is relatively small but they use a huge blanket to get to and find it, and it's almost all about the money, in sort of a sneaky way. MatPat has talked about that a bit before, but I feel like it kind of applies here too, just in a different way. I know nothing is going to be perfect, but I feel we can at least try a little bit harder, and I find it interesting to see what we as Americans are often blind to because of our media consumption. I always thought LoL was the biggest of its class, but now I'm learning that's not even close to true, and that (as he jokes) is the tip of the iceberg!
Anyway, thanks for replying and engaging. Discussion and learning are my favorite parts of this channel!
@@riuphane We aren't Americans. We are also exposed to our respective cultures. There is a reason you don't know about these games, because you weren't interested until now. You can't blame media for not spoon feeding it to you.
Good to know that the editor is also a genshin addict kek. Mind you as a NZer we may have alot of similarities with the western world but I notice we are constantly influenced by our time zones, are friends are different, our humour is different (we are less sensitive is an example of have I noticed personally), and of course the topic of todays episode, our games are well mixed lol both western and eastern
6:16 just timestamping this for some reason
based
"How is this possible?!"
Heres how its possible: North America and Europe aren't the only continents in the world. 💀💀💀
its insane how matpat essentially made a 15 minute video about coming to terms with the fact that other countries exist
i think his point is that if a game is that massive, then it would be at very least mentioned a little in america/europe and its surprising how it isn’t 💀
@@kellybowzer3814 americans dont know geography
they think africa is a country and the ussr still exists
@@krio1267 ok
Did you know that North America, Europe, and Japan dominated gaming until the late 2010s?
I knew Matpat was talking about Freefire, where I live literally every male plays it and is obsessed with it, my cousin, my classmates, even some of my female friends play it.
Where I live it's really popular.
Where i live as well
@非カマル🤤👇 go away bot
I live in morocco and every guy in the country has played the game at least once (including me).
i'v played FreeFire back before pubg moblie came out how is it now a days
Most likely every non 1st world country has played it... we dont have much choices after all
I THOROUGHLY enjoyed the opening of this video.
The bubble so thick, mat gotta make a video out of it
As a Brazilian, the first 5 minutes of the video felt like MatPat was discovering other countries out of the USA exist.
RIGHT???
E
LMAO
Yeah lol.How can somone be so blind of whats happening with the most popular game in the worldm
SIM MANO HAUSHSHHSUSHS ia comentar algo parecido até
It's funny to see matpat talking about a game that's huge in Brazil
Concordo
@@foxxyytofficial parece aqueles gringos dizendo q o Brasil não faz parte da América 😂😂
Né, ele mostrou a matéria do TechTudo eu dei um grito kkkkkkk
@@mairasampaio1845 somos dois
Huge in india too
Make The 7th Petscop Theory.
I think this just goes to show the difference of pop culture in different continents. I’m from Bangladesh a country in South Asia and almost all the games you mentioned are very popular here