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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 729327" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>Well yes of course, but sadly that's simply a classic reflection of the economies of scale at play here; Rugby's gaming economy simply isn't large enough to support the allocation of resources necessary to produce something of the standard of soccer or the sports popular in the US. </p><p></p><p>It makes sense when you think of it - the US has a population of 300 million people with which to support very high quality products in sports like American Football, Ice Hockey and Basketball, while soccer has Europe and South America (but Europe is where the bulk of the money is made obviously). </p><p></p><p>What does Rugby have? National sport status in a country with 4 million and a couple other islands with a few hundred thousand and not entirely developed economies. It has second sport status in places like England and South Africa, but even their combined populations are still only a third of the US. Meanwhile in Australia the sport actually would more be accurately described as "niche". It's not a "second most popular" like England and South Africa; in reality it sits about 3rd or even 4th, meaning the number of people likely to buy a rugby game here isn't that appealingly high.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 729327, member: 12207"] Well yes of course, but sadly that's simply a classic reflection of the economies of scale at play here; Rugby's gaming economy simply isn't large enough to support the allocation of resources necessary to produce something of the standard of soccer or the sports popular in the US. It makes sense when you think of it - the US has a population of 300 million people with which to support very high quality products in sports like American Football, Ice Hockey and Basketball, while soccer has Europe and South America (but Europe is where the bulk of the money is made obviously). What does Rugby have? National sport status in a country with 4 million and a couple other islands with a few hundred thousand and not entirely developed economies. It has second sport status in places like England and South Africa, but even their combined populations are still only a third of the US. Meanwhile in Australia the sport actually would more be accurately described as "niche". It's not a "second most popular" like England and South Africa; in reality it sits about 3rd or even 4th, meaning the number of people likely to buy a rugby game here isn't that appealingly high. [/QUOTE]
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