Actually, you can. That's kind of the entire reason why there's a broad-sweeping market comparison model which accounts for the effects of all markets upon each other and upon the world around us. It's called "economics". And you most certainly can compare the two directly, as they both fall into the same overall market: entertainment.
It's normal in entertainment markets of all kinds for the more "high-brow" (ie. unappreciated by the market's audience at large) productions to be the ones which cost little compared to the "low-brow" (ie. appreciated by the market's audience at large) products and sell poorly, but be highly regarded by the elite of the industry to be pinnacles of entertainment. We do see this in the video games industry, when games with quirky aesthetics are given high ratings but sell poorly. What we also see in the games industry is a heavy number of critics who rate games which don't have high-brow appeal just as highly as the elite critics rank the actual high-brow games.
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