Re: Movies on Consoles

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From: Steve Pritchard
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:27

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"Dean Siren" <d...@iu.net> wrote in message
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> I'm beginning to think that the video game industry is a movie maker's
paradise.
> It lets people make a 40 hour movie, and as long as they call it a video
game,
> they can sell millions of copies of it worldwide for $50, PLUS get it into
every
> Blockbuster Video, Wal Mart and Best Buy!  Despite making their movies for
> proprietary hardware not a fifth as popular as ordinary DVD players,
charging
> twice the cost of normal movies, mislabeling them as games and giving up
$7 per
> copy, they still profit enormously.

For ever big earner there are twenty games that don't break even. Movies
have a higher hit rate.

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Subject: Re: Movies on Consoles
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:27:43 -0000
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