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Soonerman on 13 May 2016

I think it's good that smartphone games are doing great. Console gaming has to die or at least become a niche category. After all, the big players are just putting out only lame sequels with barely significance advancement to the gaming industry which is basically the same as phone gaming.



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Platina on 13 May 2016
JWeinCom said:
BraLoD said:

Revenue for consoles increasing a lot is bad for them?

People still have a simplistic consoles vs smartphone view and haven't realized that the two mediums could actually reinforce eachother.  Just because Marvel makes far far more on its film division than its movie division doesn't mean that the comic divisions is dead.

Well, let's leave it at that then :p



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Swordmasterman on 13 May 2016
JWeinCom said:
BraLoD said:

Revenue for consoles increasing a lot is bad for them?

People still have a simplistic consoles vs smartphone view and haven't realized that the two mediums could actually reinforce eachother.  Just because Marvel makes far far more on its film division than its movie division doesn't mean that the comic divisions is dead.

Means less investiment for other  markets, USA'S Comic book Market (DC + Marvel + Others) was worth over 800-880 Millions Last Year, this year Deadpool's Revenue was of 750+ Millions.



JWeinCom on 13 May 2016
Swordmasterman said:
JWeinCom said:

People still have a simplistic consoles vs smartphone view and haven't realized that the two mediums could actually reinforce eachother.  Just because Marvel makes far far more on its film division than its movie division doesn't mean that the comic divisions is dead.

Means less investiment for other  markets, USA'S Comic book Market (DC + Marvel + Others) was worth over 800-880 Millions Last Year, this year Deadpool's Revenue was of 750+ Millions.

I'm really not sure what you're trying to get at.

The comic book market was worth an estimated 660 million dollars (adjusted for inflation) in 2009.  Now it's 835 million.  716 million in 2010 (adjusted for inflation) and now 835 million.

I'm not sure how Deadpool (which is not made by Marvel's film division btw) is relevant.  Since 2000 the size of the comic market has more than tripled without taking inflation into consideration, and doubled with inflation.  This was after years of stagnation.

In the worst case scenario, comic book movies have done nothing to hurt the market.  It seems quite reasonable to infer that they've actually helped a great deal.  The bottom line is the comic book market has been able to rise concurrently with the film market.



Swordmasterman on 13 May 2016
JWeinCom said:
Swordmasterman said:

Means less investiment for other  markets, USA'S Comic book Market (DC + Marvel + Others) was worth over 800-880 Millions Last Year, this year Deadpool's Revenue was of 750+ Millions.

I'm really not sure what you're trying to get at.

The comic book market was worth an estimated 660 million dollars (adjusted for inflation) in 2009.  Now it's 835 million.  716 million in 2010 (adjusted for inflation) and now 835 million.

I'm not sure how Deadpool (which is not made by Marvel's film division btw) is relevant.  Since 2000 the size of the comic market has more than tripled without taking inflation into consideration, and doubled with inflation.  This was after years of stagnation.

In the worst case scenario, comic book movies have done nothing to hurt the market.  It seems quite reasonable to infer that they've actually helped a great deal.  The bottom line is the comic book market has been able to rise concurrently with the film market.

The Early 21th century movies of Batman, Spiderman, and Ironman,  did good for the Comic books market.

But more people should purchase Comics, we need Balance in this market.



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Kerotan on 13 May 2016
Swordmasterman said:
Intrinsic said:

If you ask me, we don't even need two. One is enough. But two is necessary to keep them honest. 

We don't need any at all, we can make our own consoles.

I'm too lazy to make my own.  That's why I paid Sony $400 to make one for me.  



Areaz32 on 13 May 2016

It was a bad idea to release Rise of the tomb raider on xbox one only eh?



JWeinCom on 13 May 2016
Swordmasterman said:
JWeinCom said:

I'm really not sure what you're trying to get at.

The comic book market was worth an estimated 660 million dollars (adjusted for inflation) in 2009.  Now it's 835 million.  716 million in 2010 (adjusted for inflation) and now 835 million.

I'm not sure how Deadpool (which is not made by Marvel's film division btw) is relevant.  Since 2000 the size of the comic market has more than tripled without taking inflation into consideration, and doubled with inflation.  This was after years of stagnation.

In the worst case scenario, comic book movies have done nothing to hurt the market.  It seems quite reasonable to infer that they've actually helped a great deal.  The bottom line is the comic book market has been able to rise concurrently with the film market.

The Early 21th century movies of Batman, Spiderman, and Ironman,  did good for the Comic books market.

But more people should purchase Comics, we need Balance in this market.

Why?



maxleresistant on 13 May 2016

Damn the market is bleak right now.

At least I can say I'm not part of the problem



HintHRO on 13 May 2016
Soonerman said:
I think it's good that smartphone games are doing great. Console gaming has to die or at least become a niche category. After all, the big players are just putting out only lame sequels with barely significance advancement to the gaming industry which is basically the same as phone gaming.

So Square Enix has to stop making console games completely because phone games are doing a little bit better. Good thinking...?

And mobile will never take over console gaming for only the following reason: Mobile gaming is terrible. Square Enix only made money because billions of people have a smartphone, compared to only 100 million people having one or multiple gaming systems with games being made for. In that perspective consoles and PC are the place for real gaming since consoles and smartphones made almost equal money.