Video Game Industry Now Bigger Than Hollywood

[Mulboyne]

SF Chronicle: it's boom time for an industry now even bigger than Hollywood

The $10 billion video game industry, which generates more revenue than Hollywood, has never released so many highly anticipated blockbuster titles in a single season. It started in August with the game title Doom 3, followed by The Sims 2 in September, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in October, then Halo 2, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Half-Life 2 last month.
In November, sales of video games rose to $849 million, an 11 percent increase from the same month last year and up 77 percent from October, according to the industry research firm NPD Funworld. The industry set a milestone last month when Microsoft's Halo 2 -- a sequel to a futuristic game with an elaborate plot that pits humans against invading aliens -- surpassed Hollywood's opening-weekend movie box office record in just one day of sales. The software giant reported it had sold 2.38 million copies in the first 24 hours, translating to about $125 million in sales, surpassing Hollywood's biggest weekend opening, that of "Spider-Man" at $114 million.

[kotatsuneko]

isnt it a damn shame though, that these days, only around 10 (if that) commercially released games are actually *fun*..

building / retrofitting a mame cab (or x box) never made more sense

[Kuang_Grade]

[Samurai_Jerk]

isnt it a damn shame though, that these days, only around 10 (if that) commercially released games are actually *fun*..

building / retrofitting a mame cab (or x box) never made more sense

Wow. Sounds like they're beating Hollywood in terms of quality of content too.

[goldenboy_ge]

[Kuang_Grade]