I think the financial part is the biggest factor. Inflation calculators are neat and depressing tools to play with. $30K in 1970 is roughly $230K this year. Wages are absolutely not keeping up with inflation.

I was a troubled and anxious millennial until I graduated and got an engineering job. Seriously did not feel like life truly began until I had a steady income in my mid 20s. I'm a totally different person with financial stability, but you could get the same level of security from being a cab driver "back in the day"

If my grandma had wheels she'd be a bike

Hogwarts Legacy wasn't a book it was a AAA video game. The production costs between them probably aren't far off. The real difference is people are spending $70 for a game vs $5 for a movie ticket.

The game cost 80 dollars a ticket costs 10 and a movie is more expensive to make

You gonna need to put the number in relative to expected result. A new IP from a team that haven't done anything like this before selling 15 millions when the average AAA game release is not even 5 million is a huge success, especially when there's a call to boycott. An established IP selling 70 million tickets when you're expected to do 100 million is a failure.

well thats true. but if howgarts legacy was a movie it would have been much worse than fantastic beasts

Actually, I think it feels even worse when you choose to leave that team for another across the city because you want to win the championship, only for your original team to win it immediately after you left.

Hakan, this one's for you.

You can't compare not only two different mediums, but two different forms of intended consumption. That's not even taking into account that video games have a small base than movies so when it comes to consumer pools. You get the success from the proportions you pull on sales.

Because it cost $150M or some crazy number to make a movie and maybe. 1-5% to make and market a book.

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A $70 game vs a maybe $5 movie ticket, the game has made over a billion dollars the movie not even $500 million

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Fantastic Beasts 3 cost significantly more to produce, and they made much less per ticket than a copy of the game.

Agreed. Comparing different genres of entertainment.

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The only time I use aught is for double-aught buckshot. Rolls off the tongue.

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Ahhh.. yes. I absolutely agree with you here.

Younger generations lived through so many terrible events at such a young age. 911, columbine and subsequent school shootings, a depression, etc.

The older generations or “boomers” had a much easier time financially as well which is clearly a stressor.

why?

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This makes zero sense and I'm sure you know it makes zero sense

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