Game Industry Bigger Than Hollywood 503
Ant writes "This SF Gate story says stacks of new releases for hungry video game enthusiasts mean it's boom time for an industry now even bigger than Hollywood. The $10 billion video game industry, which generates more revenue than Hollywood, has never released so many highly anticipated blockbuster titles in a single season. It started in August with the game title Doom 3, followed by The Sims 2 in September, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in October, then Halo 2, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Half-Life 2 last month. In November, sales of video games rose to $849 million, an 11 percent increase from the same month last year and up 77 percent from October, according to the industry research firm NPD Funworld. The industry set a milestone last month when Microsoft's Halo 2 -- a sequel to a futuristic game with an elaborate plot that pits humans against invading aliens -- surpassed Hollywood's opening-weekend movie box office record in just one day of sales."
Pitty the partners (Score:5, Funny)
1999 called... (Score:5, Funny)
BTM
Re:Humm. (Score:2, Funny)
In Other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oooh, so piracy DOESN'T hurt sales.. (Score:5, Funny)
No, clearly, gamers are pirates, stealing money from the pockets and food from the plates of Hollywood executives!!
Re:I still have games that I have not played... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:All sequels (Score:1, Funny)
Re:All sequels (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Book Industry: $23.4 Billion in 2003 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Another leveling factor (Score:5, Funny)
While we're on the subject, how many people buy ONE copy of a game they like?
Re:Contrinutions (Score:4, Funny)
About $300+ per hour, it just depends on what you want them to do
Ignore This (Score:4, Funny)
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Moderating. Using pageup/pagedown to move. Didn't realize that this was also changing the settings from something positive (insightful/interesting/funny) to negative (overrated/etc.)
So, a post. This will, as I understand it, undo those moderations I have made. Oh, well. Better none than a false down. Hope this works.
Count Me Out (Score:3, Funny)
And proceeded to waste hours and days of time, just like I knew I would.
And I never could figure out how to both kill the drug lord in Colombia AND blow up the drug lab.
So I trashed the game and went back to my old ways.
Meanwhile, I've seen Blade:Trinity twice and probably would see it a third time - except I'm broke for the next couple weeks.
Fuck computer games.
ahh (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks for the explanation, always a good idea to explain obscure references like "Halo".
Re:Well, I think there's a cap to this market. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:poor programmers (Score:2, Funny)
(GOD as in Gathering Of Developers, not as in God)
Re:Apples and Oranges (Score:3, Funny)
I just imagned someone in a cowboy hat stealing network traffic.
Re:Contrinutions (Score:3, Funny)
Aw crap.
Manny the Fat Stuntman says "Don't do it" (Score:4, Funny)