I think more people who pay to subscribe to NYTimes care more about live theater than video game news.
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.
RonnieB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How about CNN, ABC, BBC, etc.?
RonnieB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How many times are you going to move the goal posts?
No one is watching CNN for gamer news.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I didn’t move the goalposts. I brought up some of the other publications listed in the article.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My point is mostky about people’s expectations and that people who want news on games probably aren’t interested in gaming articles from papers/major news sites and companies in general aren’t looking to advertise on gaming articles in the same way that makers of fashion would want to advertise in the theater section.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Like I said though, they do have some really great articles in gaming, just not with their own header, so they’re harder to find. And they do know what isn’t covered by other outlets, because they tend to do profile pieces rather than news coverage. But if Joker’s sequel is worth writing five articles about, surely the largest failure we’ve seen in games is worth one, you’d think.