Game Industry Not Bigger Than Hollywood

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 21, 2004 @08:49AM from the counterpoint dept.

The Grumpy Gamer has a counterpoint to the oft mentioned argument that the games industry is bigger business than the movie industry. From the article: "The domestic US box office is estimated to be around $9B for 2004, and this is where the myth starts to take life. The problem is the movie industry is a lot bigger then just the U.S. box office. DVD sales and rentals for 2003 topped $16B. VHS sales and rentals for 2003 was $6.4B. VHS sales are declining fast, but most of that will just shift over to DVDs, which brings the grand total for non-box office movie sales to over $20B, twice the figure for the entire game industry."

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Don't believe everything they tell you... by Jussi+K.+Kojootti · 2004-12-21 10:28 · Score: 4, Informative

Well, if you had risked it, Google would have told you that the only one saying that 'porn dwarfs the movie industry' is the porn industry itself. The revenue figures for the US porn industry that I found were between 0.5 and 10 billion.
Read this article to find out why there is such a big difference in the figures (it's a little old, but informative).