According to NPD's projection, video game sales in the U.S. will reach a record-breaking $18 billion in 2007, surpassing the $10 billion box office sales projected by The Hollywood Reporter. Halo 3 grossed over $170 million on its release day, far bigger than any Hollywood film ever has, making it the highest-grossing premiere in entertainment history.
Game Informer editor-in-chief Andy McNamara gives a partial list of blockbuster games for this fall with brief descriptions.
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
Cultured Vultures: Put on your freshest dungarees and chow down on the ripest mushroom as we reel off the best Mario games ever made to celebrate Mar10 Day.
My top 3 are Mario 3, Mario World and Mario 64. Mario Odyssey is also excellent, and I enjoyed Sunshine but didn't care for the Galaxy series.
Hey Poor Player's James Davie Takes Us On A Bio-Shocking Deep Dive Into Irrational Games' Nautical Nightmare.
Let's keep this news quiet, else theaters will start charging $59.99 for movies.
A movie you go and sit and watch for 2hrs, is not worth a game that you can interact with and enjoy for hours on end, especially if it has a robust multiplayer feature....
However one positive for the game industry, games can cost less to make than movies, but yet they bring in more money. The halo hype train really change the way people look at video games
It's about time that our favorite pastime surpassed the movie industry. How many people want to sit down and watch a movie for 2 hours when they can doing something interactive for the same amount of time. Go Industry!!!!
lmoa! bym051d, i believe that if they could get away with it they really would charge that much. what really annoys me is the 30 mins of adverts before my film compared to the 15 mins of trailers.
anyway bubbles...
To address on of the points in the article:
"Halo 3 grossed over $170 million on its release day, far bigger than any Hollywood film ever has, making it the highest-grossing premiere in entertainment history."
This really isn't a valid comparison. Assuming infinite demand for both a movie and a video game (assume DVD), the video game company is in a much better place to satisfy demand. They can crank out nearly as many copies of a game as they want. Theaters are limited by seating and number of theaters. With the game, you split up your customers between video game shops, big box retailers, discount retailers, and the internet; you can handle a much larger demand.
Not to mention that Halo retails for $59.99 where a movie for $10-13. Profits for each would be interesting to see.