NYT on Big Media Games Interest 11
The New York Times (registration required) has an article entitled Blockbuster With a Joystick, discussing the recent interest big media companies have had in game developers. From the article "What is driving the flurry is Hollywood's newfound respect for the profits earned by video game makers. Until recently, movie studios were happy to license their films to game developers...But as the profit margin on video games has remained around a healthy 25 percent - three times that of the average motion picture - the interest of companies like Disney has increased."
Disney made some fine games (Score:1)
from the no-registration-required-dept. (Score:1, Informative)
Blockbuster With a Joystick
By LAURA M. HOLSON
OS ANGELES, Feb. 6 - Ten years after being burned in their first attempts to combine movies and television with the video game business, media companies now seem willing to press the play button again.
Wall Street is rife with speculation that various media companies are on the hunt to acquire a video game maker like Activision or Electronic Arts. Studios are more aggressively licensing their television and movie properties to game makers. And th
Video Games not replacing Hollywood (Score:2)
Before the inevitable "video games are replacing movies" posts, it's worth noting that this has already been attempted and didn't go anywhere. Disney and Dreamworks (and others, to a lesser extent), sold off their movie divisions last decade. And these video games are clearly being driving by the movie market, rather than movie studios having decided they're in the wrong industry.
Fear of failure? (Score:2)
One part of TFA that made me wince: "'There will naturally be culture clashes if they try to move these cultures together," said Neil Young, the executive in charge of production at Electronic Arts. "There is not a culture of fear in our industry. We are not afraid to fail.' The big media companies - where fear of failure is almost a job requirement - ...."
Either fear of failure is not so troublesome for media companies as the article supposes -- for Disney, the media company around which much speculation
No Reg (Score:2)
Re:No Reg (Score:2, Informative)
Post gave us a nice link, from the RSS feed. If you had navigated to that article otherwise though, you would have been asked to log in and/or register.
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Ugh... (Score:5, Insightful)
Not that I have a problem with this. I just hate huge media congloms talk as if there's going to be tremendous cinergy between a huge movie studio and game studio. There is potential there in theory. Video games are a mix of all kinds of media( gameplay, music, video). Having a great game is made even better if the cut scenes have a great story and and a cinematic element to it. But in practice film makers, making a movie from a game, and game makers, making a game from a movie, are usually content with resting on the popularity of the big name they've accquired and just making a mediocre game or movie.
All I'm saying is that movie makers should worry about making a good movie first and game makers should worry about making a good game first before they attempt to cross over any elements between the two.
Inevitable (Score:1)