Talk:Just Dance 2017/@comment-29779526-20160910230450/@comment-1465604-20160912093128

It's not just about the number of native speakers. If that were the case, we'd have some Chinese songs in the game. It's about Ubisoft wanting to bring in new players from regions where Just Dance is not yet popular.

For example, Brazilian songs and French songs are included because Just Dance is already huge in both Brazil and France. However, why has Ubisoft given us a Russian song each for 2 consecutive years? Why is China getting their own version of Just Dance Now? Because Ubisoft is sniffing around for lucrative new markets. China just recently struck down their videogame ban. I'm guessing console gaming wasn't that big in Russia 'til recently?

Then there are songs like "Gangnam Style", "Gentleman" and "Daddy". They're all hugely popular songs all over the world and especially popular among the demographic Ubisoft seeks to court.

So why no Turkish songs? A combination of factors, I'm assuming:
 * A lack of a demand for them (besides from a small number of players). It'd be too cumbersome and expensive to create routines for Turkish songs that would end up being mostly ignored by most players, even if they are short on songs. First, they'd have to license the songs. Then they'd have to create a choreography, ward robe, background and then shoot everything. That's a whole lot of money and effort for something that relatively few players would enjoy and that almost no one would be buying the game specifically to play (in other words, Ubisoft would not be making any "extra" money from the game since they wouldn't be reaching players who wouldn't have bought the game otherwise).
 * Turkish music had a vogue in the late 1990's and very early 2000's. It's since long gone. Again, no demand international. Little to no international interest.
 * Turkey is a very conservative country (and becoming more and more conservative as we speak) and videogames seemingly aren't that popular over there, anyway. Heck, as late as March of 2015, the Turkish government was mulling over banning Minecraft. Minecraft! The Turkish gaming market is small and the Turkish music videogame game market is probably close to non-exitent. It would not be worth the time, money and effort for Ubisoft to include a Turkish song over whatever peaked at #65 on the Billboard 100 4 years ago.