Comment on A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed

• RonnieB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m not saying it’s not a story, just not one most people care about. Avid gamers had barely heard of the game before it flopped, average non-gamer wouldn’t care.

  Joker sequel flopping is a bigger story because the first one was well recieved, also celebrities are involved.

  If the next call of duty sells 14 copies and shuts down in two weeks it would be a big story.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Do you think more people care about the average video game story or the average story about the theater? Live performances, not movies. Theater, Dance, and Visual Arts all get their own sections in the NYTimes, for instance, but video games are demonstrably bigger and don’t get the same attention. There’s rarely even a mention of the likes of Call of Duty in mainstream media when they do exceptionally well, let alone exceptionally poorly, and that’s really the crux of the article.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That has more to do with New York having a thriving theater scene and a NY newpaper promoting a local thing that is popular with its readership and the companies that pay for advertising. It is something that sets NY apart from a lot of other locations, even if theater is pretty common in most areas.

      Kind of a chicken and egg when it comes to games, since readers won’t be expecting games news in mainstream sources they don’t dedicate resources to writing the articles when most people who are looking for game news already have a number of web sites to choose from.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I agree that theater is something that New York has in abundance over most areas, but are there not movie focused sites better delivering those articles on movies as well? Is it not worth covering something at all just because it’s at other news sources? If it wasn’t, any news outlet would only print exclusives. And this extends beyond the Times, as the article points out; that’s just the outlet I personally have a subscription to, and their circulation extends far and wide regardless.

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    • RonnieB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I think more people who pay to subscribe to NYTimes care more about live theater than video game news.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        How about CNN, ABC, BBC, etc.?

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  John Carter didn’t get that much attention either, and what it did was mostly about the leadership changes in Disney tanking the advertising and not about the movie itself.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sounds familiar…

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    As a fan of the books, the movie was pretty bad. The only good parts I can recall were the CG, and the actors who played Tars Tarkus and Kantos Kan. Everyone else in the film was mid to bad.

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