panorama video games in Italy It is both exciting and disappointing for 2021, photographed in the latest IIDEA report. In fact, if it is true that the Italian market generates 2.2 billion euros in revenue, it is also true. they always sell the regular ones and they also register falling investments It’s about localizations in our language.
How do we get out? The question is clearly cultural, and the role of video game magazines like Multiplayer.it is clear: to talk about productions big and small, to try to get people excited, to encourage them to discover new species rather than fossilize. But things get complicated when information moves to other channels, where the guiding principle is just to follow the trends and grind the numbers.
Let’s be clear: this is not relevant triple A vs. indieBut blockbuster against everything. We know that FIFA 22 was the best-selling game in Italy in 2021, placing third in the same ranking as previous EA football. In the middle we find GTA V, a game currently released in distant 2014, but that never made it out of the top 10.
To see something that isn’t FIFA or GTA, you have to scroll down to rank four, which we find best expressed. Historic Italian passion for PlayStation and its flagship brand Spider-Man, followed by the quarantine phenomenon Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and then another immortal-appearing blockbuster, Minecraft in its Nintendo Switch version. The thing is, it’s unknown how wide the gap between the podium and the rest of the standings is.
What are the consequences of such a static market? Decreased investment, above all localizations. In 2019, there was the sensational case of Remedy Entertainment’s excellent action shooter, Control, produced by an Italian publisher who did not approve of dubbing the game in our language. In others yes, in ours no.
Then came Far Cry 6, which wasn’t dubbed in Italian: it’s never happened before, even the original 2004 episode is fully localized in our language. However, examples abound: even products without a lot of dialogue, see fig. Forza Horizon 4 and 5 do not speak Italian. L’economic commitmentevidently, not refunded.
So back to the original question: How can we rank the best-selling games in Italy a little bit? more dynamicrewards new releases, is it an expression of a truly passionate user who cares about the development of the environment? We’ve said before that video game magazines do their bit of disclosure, trying to rally between trendy names and “public service.”
Like this the ball passes to you: advise grandchild to sprinkle Fortnite games with some narrative single player experience; Explain to the football fan that there are amazing action games, exciting adventures, indie pearls as well as unlocking the FUT pack; Tell COD fanatics that there are unscripted shooters who let you choose where to go and what to do, rather than taking you by hand from one gunfight to the next.
What do you think, can it be done? Let’s talk about.
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Source: Multiplayer
