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Inafune on the Great White North?s Emergence: ?Canadians Are More Serious?

By pete_gallagher

By all accounts, Canada is now the third largest home to videogame developers in the world, a realization that Capcom's Keiji Inafune attributes to both favorable tax breaks and the populace's work ethic.

Speaking to NowGamer, Inafune, who produced Dead Rising 2 and is head of R&D for the Japanese publisher, noted that Canada was 'getting very important now,' before conveying his opinion as to why that might be.

'There are lots of background reasons for it, tax relief and government policies and so on and so forth, but from the developers point of view, Canada is part of North America so you can sort of [include it as] North American,' he stated.

Inafune continued:

But compared to Americans, Canadians are a bit... more serious, if you like. Also, compared to big cities such as Los Angeles, it's also a little bit cheaper. So they've got potential to be at the epicentre of videogame development. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).

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