This line from The New York Times this morning kind of blew my mind:
"The game industry now accounts for significant chunks of the economy. It is larger than music, U.S. book publishing and North American sports COMBINED. Microsoft’s game division and Activision Blizzard each make more money annually than all U.S. movie theaters."
@doyce And where does all that money go? Not to the creatives that make those games. It's worst than the movie or music biz. No one seems to want to talk about that.
@tob all programmers do, but game devs especially, because they are exploited like most people who do something that many want to do. @grumpygamer@doyce
@grumpygamer@doyce my sense is that it's pretty variable? Development costs can be in the 100s of millions, and that does go to the developers/artists/etc.
But then the payouts can be ... varied. If your games makes bazillions from micro transactions, for example, that will overwhelmingly go to the studio. And the most profitable games (CoD) for this pattern
@doyce yet the discussion around whether one of the lalgest tech companies should be allowed to acquire Activision is limited to bloody COD. I don't get it.
It's kind of not a fair comparison: All video games, of all kinds, played on phones, consoles, PCs, etc., In every market in the world, is a larger market than professional sports in North America.
That's not that really that surprising when you think about it.
I bet that if you compared the global video game market to all sports at all levels globally, sports wins easily.
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