SlorgNet on 09 October 2007
| dgm6780 said: slorgnet's link is some well compiled charts and lists it as Games : 30.7 billion Movies : 57.6 billion games might pass it soon as its growing faster, but right now movies generate between 1.4-1.8 times what games do. |
Actually, games really are a larger industry than film, though not by much. The reason is that DVD sales and rentals includes TV shows and programming of all kinds. Also, my charts don't include certain forms of non-recorded TV revenues, such as syndication rights and network revenues. Add those in, and TV is still king of the hill and growing pretty fast (especially in places like India and China). Games are number 2, and growing even faster than TV, while cinema is number three and growing pretty slowly.
What's truly shocking is that the mainstream business press has no idea of just how big and important the game industry has become. Newsweek's Ngai Croal is an honorable exception, but the coverage out there tends to be awful.
