"[points to imaginary co-developer, not his girlfriend]"

Now he tells me. (Zloth goes off to get a ladder so he can scrape his eyebrows off the ceiling.)

I don't know if the American/European divide is going to hold up all that well. It seems more like a "huge production value" vs. "everyone else" divide. If you invest so much money into a game that you have to sell 30 million copies just to break even, you had better know your target audience.