Comments on: Are Games Bigger Than Movies? http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/04/17/are-games-bigger-than-movies/ Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me Thu, 17 May 2012 21:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/04/17/are-games-bigger-than-movies/comment-page-1/#comment-260202 Jeff Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:10:58 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/04/17/are-games-bigger-than-movies/#comment-260202 Chris / Tim, I'm with you, the trend line is unavoidable and there is nothing that would suggest it will be reversed. I would also bet that the only thing that is preventing further deterioration of movies is a generational factor. If you drive down the age groups it would be somewhat predictable that game consumption increases well beyond the mean. Chris / Tim,
I’m with you, the trend line is unavoidable and there is nothing that would suggest it will be reversed.

I would also bet that the only thing that is preventing further deterioration of movies is a generational factor. If you drive down the age groups it would be somewhat predictable that game consumption increases well beyond the mean.

]]> By: Tim Marman http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/04/17/are-games-bigger-than-movies/comment-page-1/#comment-259840 Tim Marman Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:54:49 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/04/17/are-games-bigger-than-movies/#comment-259840 As Chris said, games are definitely the future. Forgot for a minute about the raw sales and consider the number of hours of attention paid to each of these types of media. If we're moving to an attention economy, I'm betting on the game that people play for 17-20 DAYS of total play time over the life of the product vs. watch once or twice. Movies are consumed but a few times. Music is consumed very often, but the engagement is a little different. Games are a platform from which further sales can happen and within which advertising can happen. For example, Call of Duty 4 (one of my favorite games) recently released 4 new maps for $10 and it sold 1 million copies in the first week. http://iamfourzerotwo.com/2008/04/18/variety-map-pack-surpasses-9-million-downloads/ As Chris said, games are definitely the future. Forgot for a minute about the raw sales and consider the number of hours of attention paid to each of these types of media.

If we’re moving to an attention economy, I’m betting on the game that people play for 17-20 DAYS of total play time over the life of the product vs. watch once or twice.

Movies are consumed but a few times. Music is consumed very often, but the engagement is a little different. Games are a platform from which further sales can happen and within which advertising can happen.

For example, Call of Duty 4 (one of my favorite games) recently released 4 new maps for $10 and it sold 1 million copies in the first week. http://iamfourzerotwo.com/2008/04/18/variety-map-pack-surpasses-9-million-downloads/

]]> By: Chris Yeh http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/04/17/are-games-bigger-than-movies/comment-page-1/#comment-259418 Chris Yeh Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:49:37 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/04/17/are-games-bigger-than-movies/#comment-259418 One of my favorite sayings is, "Don't be on the wrong side of history." Regardless of the current numbers, betting on movies vs. games is picking the wrong side of history. One of my favorite sayings is, “Don’t be on the wrong side of history.” Regardless of the current numbers, betting on movies vs. games is picking the wrong side of history.

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