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SkunkWorkz, do games w World's Video Game Companies

lol Ubi. Why are they still treated as one of the big ones? Like Mojang alone is probably way more valuable than Ubi in total. They basically double A now and they should probably focus on double A productions. Also their market cap is even lower today they are a sub billion euro company now.

p03locke, do games w Video games where you get to kill US soldiers
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The Prototype series.

Zahille7, do games w Video games where you get to kill US soldiers

Uh… I mean there’s Halo Wars, which lets you play as Covenant leaders in certain modes (in 2 there’s a DLC storyline where you play as the aliens again, but not against the humans). The UNSC is basically the US Army In Space.

Aside from that I’m not sure. There’s probably plenty of mods for other games though. Like GMod, there are tons of NPCs and such in the steam workshop, plenty of US military characters to choose from. You can then load into a map, set up a spawner (or spawn them in yourself), and start blasting. I did actually do something like this back when the George Floyd protests were going on: I went in the game, spawned in a bunch of cop NPCs and just started blasting and mowing them down.

It actually did feel pretty good, tbh.

bearboiblake,

Garry’s Mod is genuinely a pretty good idea, might give that a shot!

MilitantAtheist, do games w Arc raiders is a horrible game

It’s an epic game and it’s fun as hell. Just not something for you I guess.

Saapas, do games w Video games where you get to kill US soldiers
pyrinix, do games w Video games where you get to kill US soldiers

You're probably best finding RTS games where you are in the roles of maybe rulers and whatnot that oppose US military? it's all I can think of.

desmosthenes, do games w Arc raiders is a horrible game
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it’s overly simplified rust

callmechiko, do games w Arc raiders is a horrible game

Yep, went back to Helldivers 2 for some actual PvE gameplay.

currycourier, do games w World's Video Game Companies

Does Tencent count? Not sure what qualifies as “Game-Focused”, but IIRC gaming is the biggest source of their revenue at least.

CosmoNova, do games w Arc raiders is a horrible game

I don‘t say this often but that is a legitimate skill issue on your side.

Nosavingthrow,

You should be saying it more. Out of mathematical necessity, half of all players are worse than the other half. I don’t imagine as many people on the upper half are whining as much because things are going well for them.

smeg, do games w World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles

Looks like the data is a little out of date, seems the PS5 has outsold the 360 now. Also why are handhelds missing?

gilokee,
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Handhelds aren’t technically consoles.

smeg,

Wikipedia seems to think they are. I’ve seen “home consoles” used when you want to exclude handhelds, what makes you say that they’re technically not consoles?

zikzak025,

Plus the Switch is a handheld, which makes it a weird distinction to make.

Goodlucksil,

The Siwtch is not a handheld, unless you count the Switch Lite into those sales. You can perfectly use a Switch as a home console.

zikzak025, (edited )

I count it as a handheld because every switch can be used as a handheld, while not every switch can be used as a home console.

So I guess why wouldn’t the Switch Lite be counted in those sales? It’s the same device, sans detachable controllers and docking capabilities.

It’s like calling a phone that you can plug into a monitor with peripherals a “desktop”

yakko,

Agreed, the steam deck belongs on this list or the switch doesn’t.

TacoSocks,

The steam deck has unfortunately sold a tiny fraction of the sales of the consoles listed in the image. I can’t find any exact numbers but the steam deck has sold between 4 to 6 million units.

smeg,

More than things like the Phillips CD-i which makes the Wikipedia list, so they’re at least distinguishing between consoles and PCs

B0NK3RS, do games w How Are You Guys Handling This?
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Have a look at the Heroic Launcher. I remember reading it included a feature to play some Windows games in compatibility mode or something?

Apart from that I guess it’s Geforce Now, Amazon Luna etc…

thenoirwolfess,

Can confirm.

Most games I run on Heroic are free giveaways from Epic. Those are, to the best of my knowledge, all Windows. Heroic handles the compatibility with Proton, similar to how Steam does it. With a fancypants workaround you can even install Sims 4 as a direct game exe, and well, you can run any program from it if you really wanted

Katana314,

I’ve used it for Epic and GOG, Lutris for Ubi/EA, but can either play MS UWP games? That seemed to be the one huge hurdle for any third party launcher in general.

T00l_shed, do games w Video games where you get to kill US soldiers

Hmm, well with what’s happening in the US, some of the wolfenstein games would be appropriate

bearboiblake,

I’ve been playing through Return to Castle Wolfenstein which does go some way towards scratching that itch, ideally I’d like to have something set in a bit more of a modern era though… with that said, are the newer Wolfenstein games worth playing?

T00l_shed,

Any game where you can shoot nazis is a good game

nyctre,

Haven’t played the new colossus yet but the new order was pretty good. I can recommend it.

AnchoriteMagus,

Both new ones are excellent.

Not FPSs, but pretty much any strategy game set in either world war lets you play vs the US.

Company of Heroes, Steel Division, Hearts of Iron, Great War: Western Front, etc.

Of course, you’d have to play as Nazis or the Red Army, but there ya go.

carotte,

if you wanna do that tho, keep in mind that they’re owned by microsoft, so pirate them if possible

T00l_shed,

I got it for free from epic, but good call out

CosmoNova, do games w World's Video Game Companies

Is Groombox actually that big or is it based on what the CEO says it is worth? I remember reading some ridiculous statements about their net worth.

eRac,

These are all public companies. Roblox is RBLX on the NYSE. It hit an all-time high of $141/share in September, and this infographic was probably produced then.

It’s now back down to $80/share, which is $56.8 billion in market cap.

someguy3, (edited ) do games w World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles

Anyone think the switch can take over? It’s at 154 million according to newer link. Only 6 million to go.

NOT_RICK,
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Probably not, unless Nintendo releases a surprise last iteration of the console which I also don’t see as that may cannibalize Switch 2 sales. A Switch Micro would be cool though

ripcord,
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It’s still selling, and there are new games still coming out for it. Yes, it will take over.

NOT_RICK, (edited )
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Its 2025 sales numbers are about 4 million, half that of 2024, and that’s with half the year with no successor console. Maybe it’ll beat it, but I don’t feel it’s a foregone conclusion

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