Major Video Games Make More Money Than Blockbuster Movies
You might think, based on Hollywood's hard work and even even harder marketing, that only big movies make millions. Video games are where the really big money flows.
This story originally appeared onPCMag
Rockstar Games has a hit withRed Dead Redemption 2. And as thelatest chart from Statistashows, it's even a bigger deal than Marvel's Avengers franchise.
使用数据从视频游戏公司ndBox Office Mojo, which tracks the money-making of any and every movie ever made, Statista's chart shows that the games from Rockstar have much bigger debuts than the biggest films of the last few years --Avengers: Infinity War,The Fate of the Furiousin 2017, andStar Wars: The Force Awakensin 2015.
Even the biggest movie haul on opening weekend wasAvengersat $641 million (worldwide); Rockstar's top two titles both beat that. And one of them wasGrand Theft Auto Vback in 2013, which took in a cool $1 billion in sales in three days, making it the fastest-selling title of all time.
To be fair, bothAvengers: IW and Star Wars: TFAeach managed to clear a full $2 billion worldwide box office eventually, making them the fourth and third biggest movies ever, behind onlyAvatarandTitanic. (The Fate of the Furioushit only $1.2 billion globally.) Anddomestically,Star Wars: TFAis the biggest U.S. hit ever, even overAvatar.
Grand Theft Auto V, on the other hand, has no less thanseven Guinness World Records(including, as mentioned, fastest game to hit $1 billion). As of May 2018, with 95 million copies sold, GTAV had generated $6 billion in profits. It has been hailed as the "most profitable entertainment product ever." All bow down before the extended life-span of video games, capable of up to three times the money-making power of the movies. IfRed Dead Redemption 2can even come close to rivalling it, big movie stars may start to feel a chill as their CGI counterparts reap the rewards.
