| onionberry said: Every entertainment medium has fanboys and fans who care about their idols or favorite product, but the only entertainment medium where I see that a lotof people care about sales is in the gaming industry. For example, you don't see Madonna fans saying that Lady gaga sucks because madonna has more money or more sales, or you don't see Cleveland fans saying that Lebron sells more tickets and Jerseys than kobe, so kobe sucks. They use the product or idol to fight "Lady gaga sings better or is more creative than Madonna" "Lebron is better right now, kobe is too old" "Inception is an amazing movie!, better than Avatar!! (avatar sold more)" etc. So why sales are so important to gamers? why gamers are so proud about sales? This is a charts website so I'm not specifically talking about vgchartz, just in general. |
Because of Console Wars. I mean, are we more concerned with PC sales or Console sales? Is it PS4 vs Xbone or is it PS4 vs PC? Most of us grew up on consoles games and caring about the character in the game. PCs would have been more relevant for gamers if it were a stand alone plug and play console, but it was more complicated than that growing up. As for movies, they're 90 minutes long on average. You watch them and the movie just continue to play. Games we're more interactive, we can change the outcome of the game to some degree.
Music again is a linear platform like movies.
