While countries such as America and the UK are populated with so called "gamers", 82% of people who play games live in the continent of Asia. This is very shocking. Especially because of the characters that get created in the industry. We hardly see any Asian protagonists in games, the only ones that stand out are Sleeping Dogs and Final Fantasy and those are published by Japanese game developer and publisher Square Enix. However, we game developer Konami is also Japanese and in the Metal Gear Solid franchise you play as a American Caucasian male.
On the other hand, American game publisher EA make the Mirror's Edge franchise which has an Asian female protagonist which goes against stereotype of American game companies making only American protagonists.
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