| sieanr said:9.49 billion at $7 per ticket means 1,355,714,285 movie tickets were sold. 12 billion at $50 per game means 240,000,000 games weresold Yeah, gamings as mainstream as movies despite selling well over a billion less games than movie tickets.
Regardless, the above numbers are flawed because they do not take DVD's, piracy, rentals and the cost of consoles into account. |
If I'm not mistaken, that 12 billion takes absolutely everything into account. Hardware, software, accessories. The average game is sold for under 35 dollars, I believe. That 9.5 billion is just box office, nothing else. No concessions, no DVD-anything.
But when we're talking about how "mainstream" gaming is, who cares that selling 1 million PS3s creates way more revenue than selling 64 million tickets to "Pirates"? Obviously the word "mainstream" relates to customer-base, not revenue.
Its dangerous to look at the huge revenue gaming is creating as really great for the industry, when Sony for example is creating more revenue by selling more expensive consoles to less people, and burning billions of dollars.
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