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Fishie on 24 February 2009
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Procrastinato said:
Fishie said:
Procrastinato said:

 

Actually, the video game market blew DVD sales (not DVD + Box Office.. yet) out of the water last year.  You're at least 0 for 2 now.

Here's an educational link:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6203677.html

 

 

Its one of the most perpetuated lies in existence.

When these outlets talk about box office revenue in the US or worldwide getting beat by videogames they count videogame hardware and compare it to ONLY US OUTPUT.  Basically its HOLLYWOOD AND THATS IT.

Thats why I mentioned Bollywood, count international box office revenue from all movies made worldwide and the entire games industry DOES NOT EVEN COMPARE.

 

Regardles of those things though I first reacted to a post that said games made more money then movies.

And that one is laughable to the extreme.

With movies you first get theatrical releases, then DVD`s, pay per view, cable and network rights, airline and cruiseline rights, merchandising at chain restaurants(McDonalds pays big bucks for something like Wal E) etcetera. All continuing revenue streams games dont get.

The link explicitly states that its talking worldwide revenue.  You're saying they're making it up?  Or... you're trying to lump in a whole load of other industries to change the argument?

 

 

 Yes they are making it up.

They only count box office revenue of Hollywood output.

Look at the anual figures by US studios, add those up and it will be roughly the same as the figure they quote for worldwide box office revenue.

They dont count Bollywood, they dont count output by Japan, China, Thailand etcetera.

Only movies published by Hollywood studios.

Lol, you are awesome.  I nearly spilled my brew.  The link was news from a worldwide tracking agency, not an American one, but... I bet they don't count pirated DVDs either!  The rats!

 

 

 

Oh wait, I was on a different paralel here.

This is with regards to DVD sales, well yeah the games industry has a higher turnover but AGAIN for the games industry they count hardware, peripherals, services(like XBox live gold) etcetera to get their turnover figure while for DVD`s they ONLY COUNT THE SALES OF THE DISCS.

To make it a fair comparison they should either ONLY count boxed software(physical game discs and packaged DVD`s) OR count everything for both.

Again, for games they count 400$ towards the games biz whenever someone buys a PS3, they count downloadable content on PSN, Live etcetera, they count seperately bought controllers, memory cards, keypads, bluetooth headsets, nunchuks, xbox live subscriptions, and even MOVIES BOUGHT TROUGH PSN OR XBOX LIVE.

To make it a fair comparison sales of DVD/BD players(including xbox 360 and PS3) should then be included with the DVD sales, replacement remote controlls should be included, digital downloads trough services like ITunes should be included etcetera yet they are not.

Software wise, the movie sales still outpace those of games and that is NOT including box office revenue, rentals, licensing for pay per view, cable, airlines, cruises etcetera etcetera.