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Americans tend to assume every successful tech company is founded in America. Whenever Ubisoft is in gaming news, there are always Americans surprised to learn

Americans tend to assume every successful tech company is founded in America. Whenever Ubisoft is in gaming news, there are always Americans surprised to learn they're French.

pb7 4y ago
Activision-Blizzard, Epic, Microsoft, Take-Two, Electronic Arts, and Sony (partially) are all American and have 10x the revenue. China and Japan are both ahead of EU as a whole.
- digging 4y ago
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  - pb7 4y ago
    I disagree, I find it quite relevant that a larger population somehow has less than 1/10th of the market share in products they consume at an equal rate. One large successful company in a massive industry (video games) is nothing to be proud of when you have 450M people -- it is troubling.
    - digging 4y ago
      Ubisoft isn't the only large successful game company in the EU though. It was a single example. Yes, the US is undoubtedly ahead in that regard as they are in most tech. Japan is also famous for its video game industry. China is definitely one to be impressed with more than the EU in terms of emerging tech dominance [from a market that isn't a historical powerhouse in the way US and Japan are]. That doesn't mean the EU is "bad at computers" or that all tech companies are in the US, which is what I was responding to.
ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>Ubisoft As an European I currently wouldn't be proud with Ubisoft.
- digging 4y ago
  I'm not saying anyone should be. But they are a large successful tech company.
  - Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y ago
    So Ubisoft is?
- p_j_w 4y ago
  Activision-Blizzard, Epic, Microsoft, Take-Two, Electronic Arts, and Sony, as mentioned by the comment above you, aren't companies to be proud of, either.
yesco 4y ago
The European Union has 100 million more people living in it than the United States alone. You named a single video game studio. The European Union is far behind, it's both pitiful and unproductive to suggest otherwise. The reason American's are surprised to hear certain companies like Ubisoft are from the EU is because it's that uncommon, no one gets surprised when a company is Japanese.
- scotty79 4y ago
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  - yesco 4y ago
    > Europe is kind of blind spot for most Americans. They don't understand separate countries. They are surprised they can't pay in dollars and that the wall sockets are weird. Absolute nonsense, what in the world led you to believing this? The average American has far more awareness of Europe than countries in South East Asia. That fact that Americans don't reciprocate the fanatical obsession Europeans tend to have with American current events & politics does not make them stupid like so many pretentious Europeans like to believe.
    - scotty79 4y ago
      https://www.rferl.org/a/1068259.html https://www.rferl.org/a/1068259.html
- digging 4y ago
  I wasn't trying to create an exhaustive list. I was giving an example to support my point.

Americans tend to assume every successful tech company is founded in America. Whenever Ubisoft is in gaming news, there are always Americans surprised to learn they're French.

pb7 4y ago

Activision-Blizzard, Epic, Microsoft, Take-Two, Electronic Arts, and Sony (partially) are all American and have 10x the revenue. China and Japan are both ahead of EU as a whole.

digging 4y ago
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- pb7 4y ago
  I disagree, I find it quite relevant that a larger population somehow has less than 1/10th of the market share in products they consume at an equal rate. One large successful company in a massive industry (video games) is nothing to be proud of when you have 450M people -- it is troubling.
  - digging 4y ago
    Ubisoft isn't the only large successful game company in the EU though. It was a single example. Yes, the US is undoubtedly ahead in that regard as they are in most tech. Japan is also famous for its video game industry. China is definitely one to be impressed with more than the EU in terms of emerging tech dominance [from a market that isn't a historical powerhouse in the way US and Japan are]. That doesn't mean the EU is "bad at computers" or that all tech companies are in the US, which is what I was responding to.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago

>Ubisoft As an European I currently wouldn't be proud with Ubisoft.

digging 4y ago
I'm not saying anyone should be. But they are a large successful tech company.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y ago
  So Ubisoft is?
p_j_w 4y ago
Activision-Blizzard, Epic, Microsoft, Take-Two, Electronic Arts, and Sony, as mentioned by the comment above you, aren't companies to be proud of, either.

yesco 4y ago

The European Union has 100 million more people living in it than the United States alone. You named a single video game studio. The European Union is far behind, it's both pitiful and unproductive to suggest otherwise. The reason American's are surprised to hear certain companies like Ubisoft are from the EU is because it's that uncommon, no one gets surprised when a company is Japanese.

scotty79 4y ago
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- yesco 4y ago
  > Europe is kind of blind spot for most Americans. They don't understand separate countries. They are surprised they can't pay in dollars and that the wall sockets are weird. Absolute nonsense, what in the world led you to believing this? The average American has far more awareness of Europe than countries in South East Asia. That fact that Americans don't reciprocate the fanatical obsession Europeans tend to have with American current events & politics does not make them stupid like so many pretentious Europeans like to believe.
  - scotty79 4y ago
    https://www.rferl.org/a/1068259.html https://www.rferl.org/a/1068259.html
digging 4y ago
I wasn't trying to create an exhaustive list. I was giving an example to support my point.