is it safe to say that video game industry is more powerful than the movie industry?

made 300 mil in the first week, thats more than all the spiderman movies, pirates, whatever which broke records.

 

so...the video game industry made 300 million dollars in its first week? i'm sure thats not what you mean...but i'm confused

 

No one'll really take the video game industry as seriously as the movie industry though. It really only plays to a fraction of the demographic that movies do.

 

maybe hes talking about halo 3, which recently came out and has been immensely popular?

money doesnt equal power. buying a game cost 3-5x a much as seeing a movie in theatre or buying it. and shit, most games these days are based off of movies (ratatouille, ghost rider, harry potter games, spiderman 3, etc etc etc)

 

how much does a video game cost compared to the cost of a dvd?

Most video games are $25-$60 brand new. Movie tickets and DVD's range from $10-$25.

How many actual games were sold compared to movies/tickets bought is what we should really be talking about.

 

Plus how much it costs to make the games and movies in question.

How many workers on the team

How long they work

How long it takes to make the movies and/or games

Are there any machines that can do what humans normally would for cheaper and more efficiently.

Plus movies often have to pay the city, so, say, they can clear a major bridge for a day for filming.

ad nausea.

all factor in to what media makes more.

 

The Gaming Industry is Where it All is...

 

I do not think anyone takes the movie industry serious as well.

 

The video game industry has a much smaller niche in the market. Even if Halo 3 is a bit of a behemoth.

 

i watch a lot of movies and play alot of games

id pick a game over a movie though... it's much more fun. going to see a movie here is expensive if you come under "adult". if you're a student or a pensioner it's worth the price. i don't think ill watch as many when im paying adult prices.

ive been a hardcore gamer since i was... 9

 

The motion picture industry isn't really seperate from TV, cable/satelite TV, etc as many companies and people involved, do work on both. Don't know about dollar values but I think the media industry has more influence.

 

NO way the film industry is way more powerful than video games plus it's got older money behind it.

 

it is more about all of the gaming, the stars are burning out. publicity to more now about how crazy and on drugs actors are on. not their role in a past movie. hell, people have came as low enough as to STILL talk about anna nicoles baby, or follow around nicole richie. And the most popular movies are remakes or the 3rd, fourth, fifth movie , even another rush hour??? and another rocky??? or getting you hooked on a movie like pirates of the caribean, and make it so you end up watching all three, cus your curious of the second, and then you have to see the third to find out what happens, i can go on forever..... theyre getting desperate in the movie world

 

I think there are good movies still being made, but just not so much from the major studios. In the last 10-40 years, all of the once privately owned major production studios have been bought by large corporations. Their only priority now is to make money for their share-holders, not to make good movies.

Tabloid scandals are nothing new, remember Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin's paternity scandal, Clara Bow, Errol Flynn rape trial, so on etc -check out book "Hollywood Babylon" by Kenneth Anger for the old time stuff, its still type sh*t as now.

 

Video games breed losers and especially school shooters

there is an occasional decent movie

 

one is in ascendency, one is in decline. power is a concept of context.

as for going over the brainbow, it is the denial of that oblivion is NOT the only alternative to cleche' that does that. both industries, along with major beliefs, economic theories and social values themselves are guilty of that.

(as seem to be a lot of threads right here on this forum)

exposure to any one experience, however earthshaking or profound, does not an outlook on life make. exposure confined to only one kind of experience, even if otherwise entirely innocent or even bennificial, does.

so really, censorship has a lot more to answer for then anything it tries to censure.

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video games do not breed school shooters. video games only encourage violent behaviours that these kids already have. that's like saying that everyone with a gun is a murderer. there's plenty of violence, killing in movies by the way.... and on tv, and there's music which talks about violence. it's everywhere.

the parents wish they could blame it all on music, games, tv. but they have to take some responsibility for how they brought up their kids. and although it may not be all their fault, is it definately partly their fault.

 

Outside of a hand full of video games--Halo, GTA, WoW, a few others--the general population is pretty ignorant of the gaming industry. Not so with movies...so I think it's safe to say movies remain a ton more "powerful" than video games.