Game Theory: 97% Of You CAN'T Name The Most Popular Video Game In The World!

Hey game theorists!

YEP

dw about it

bruhhh lol

Go theory

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

hello ninja-kun

Hello

Cool

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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

​@@spacedrimon234​jaja si

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.

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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.

@@bigdaddynero3497 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

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?

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

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.

it actually surprised me people didnt know about it

Same

finnally,brazil got noticed lol

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Fax..

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I love that game

one thousand percent

OMG I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR SO LONG

7:10

Seconded!

Yes krplus.net/bidio/j5d-dJmEdqudnJw
Fax .

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

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”

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 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.

Lol

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

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

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

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?

Preach chummer!

it’s game theory not a nexpo video

Yeah. I know I’ve barely looked around and still know about some more disturbing KRplus 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

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

@@bellaanggy------------9078 no

@sweet girls ❤️ no reported :)

@@bellaanggy------------9078 wtf

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.

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.

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.

@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.

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

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 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.

@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.

Me too

yep, felt the same thing

Tá ótimo pra quem recebe em dólar

SAME

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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.

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.

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

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Not mine

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@@pitohui7386 ?

I love the way I can find “your” comment (which was originally posted by Randa Ranatunga) in 50 seconds flat on Hadzy.

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Me : mlbb

@@jdcariaga2109 same

This bothers me so much as a Costarrican :/

@@3richu Clearly, a subtle clue to the Game Theorists' secret project.
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Flags are hard, even educators like Kurzgesagt or CGPGray get some wrong occasionally.

Cringe

Is that a JoJo's reference

@@rouhanahmedkabir3941 Is THAT a JoJo reference?

@@foosansan7543 is that a JoJo's reference

based

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?

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 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.

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?

Dude, MiHoYo knows how to make people whale. Only reason I don't spend money on Honkai Impact is because I am broke

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.

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@@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.

Because it's like a game that most people can play it. But if it's a heavier games most people who can't download it can only watch in KRplus or being annoyed with other people proudly talking about then playing the game. Trust me... I've faced it... 😿 (But in the end some of them isn't as good as expected. No offense.)

"I want *shorter* games with *worse* graphics made by people who got paid *more* to work *less,* and I'm _not_ kidding!"
_~Sonny the Hedgehog_

@@quantumblauthor7300 Is this is a dig against indies, or triple As?

@@blazefactor6849 it's a dig against triple A's and also a Luke Correia meme

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

Don't be, my mom still plays it and it is a really cool game.

@@phaesiareese4393 well I didn’t play Tetris but when he asked the most famous mobile games I thought it could be brawl stars or clash of clans or clash royale or pubg or subway surf or candy crush or angry birds

little kids dont play it

@@Jeff4theRaid Wrong, I STILL PLAY IT

@@ordinaryfellow9093 don't be weird

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

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.

YES

YES WE DO WE DO!!

YES HE SHOWED STARDEW VALLEY LOGO IN VIDEO!!
ITS A SIGN!!

@Mitsuka Chan🌹 go away

Agreed

Its a bit dumb of a video honestly.

Let ya in on a lil secret here, these videos are made in advance.

4:52 - "And yet, not ONCE, have I or anyone else on the team, ever seen it TALKED ABOUT."
Try again Suzanne.

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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

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Fax .

Meh *carries on with my day*

I was thinking that exact same thing! 😂

I live in ireland it's not cold just not really hot

I don't live in US but i have to say, that is a fact

It's also pretty popular in Malaysia and Indonesia (I think lol)

yeah truuu!

Just my opinion as a fellow Filipino, i think our place have both high and low end, and Yeh mobile legends and wild rift is big af, also Call of duty mobile is also big (in PC Valorant is more famous than APEX)
I think Asia (East and Southeast) are open to all sorts of ways (just an opinion)

@@himasekiwari155 lol I actually agree to that haha

@@mophety4075 does your school have like intrams? Like in my place Valorant or mobile legends/LoL are the usual if there are tournaments

Ha! Said the same, thank you

They both monetize to addiction

How do you smell the breath of a final fantasy monster?

@@Select2Play Some characters in games mentioned that.