Former EA producer - a $100 million game needs to sell about 6 million just to break even

[IcaroRibeiro]

SvennoJ said:

Different from the movie industry where indie movies cost the same as $500 million budget spectacles. 

It's not that different actually. The number of moviegoers who pay for indie movies is rather small

The only successful indie movies are the ones that got huge distribution deals. Marketing costs for supposedly indie movies can cost over 100 million USD to make them competitive in awards season. In this case people are buying tickets not because of the budget production value, but because of the marketing value. Different things, yet the same thing