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SpicyNoodlesfr t1_ja82ahf wrote

Reply to Hogwarts legacy sold 15million copies and it seems as a success,but 70million persons bought tickets to see Fantastic Beasts 3 and it was seen as a failure by [deleted]

Hello, I don't know where do you found this 70M number cause we don't count cinema income like that but rather just in dollars. For a simple reason, cinema ticket prices are pretty versatile depending on the country you're in, and even in the same country it's not the same price depending on your age.

A movie is supposed to win money if the total of the tickets sold are more than the double of the movie budget (because advertisement is not often count as part of a movie budget and for a blockbuster the advertisement budget is often the same as the movie budget itself). I'm not even talking about the distribution of the ticket price between cinema theatre etc...

So for Fantastic beast 3 the budget for the movie is 200 millions usd. Plus the 200 millions for advertisment budget, the estimated total is around 400 millions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Beasts:_The_Secrets_of_Dumbledore#Box_office

So it's not a big failure, but the movie didn't earn money (neither lost).

I don't know how video game industry work, but my guess is something like developer + editor + valve or epic games if it's bought dematerialized.

But video games editors are pretty shady about games budgets.

For Hogwarts Legacy, the game sold for 12 millions copy on the first two weeks for a 850 millions usd income.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogwarts_Legacy

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yamaha2000us t1_ja81k73 wrote

Reply to comment by KungThulhu in Young generations tend to judge or pity for old generations but the fact is that the later are apparently happier, less anxious and more content with what they achieved or failed to. by red-ed

I am not a boomer and made it through multiple crashes.

The problem is post boomer generation focus on successes not failures. Plenty of boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z and those tweenees have had failures as well.

And they are complaining about them in the internet.

The difference with prior generations was the use of credit. In my 20’s, I never had $5K CC to spend on whatever I want. It was strictly cash. And that is what I do now. $0K CC balance and cash only.

It’s like a strategy for living within you means

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w4rm0nst3r1987 t1_ja8184e wrote

Reply to Hogwarts legacy sold 15million copies and it seems as a success,but 70million persons bought tickets to see Fantastic Beasts 3 and it was seen as a failure by [deleted]

The point between those 2 things is irrelevant. They have no connection between them and are completely different industries altogether. It's like trying to skydive from a plane but you're paralyzed from the neck down and you have no parachute. It doesn't make sense to compare movies to games in terms of profit because everything has different requirements for being seen as a success or failure.

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Delamoor t1_ja80l99 wrote

Reply to There's been tens of thousands of generations of humans, yet even those just 3 generations back are already forgotten by most living humans. by batsofburden

Well, someday you'll be not even a faint memory

No, at most a ghost or fallen leaf from your family tree

Your legacy's not yours to see nor is your eulogy

And you'll never know what it all means

No you'll be at peace before you sleep if you just keep this in mind;

That everything, and everyone goes with the passage of time

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KJtheThing t1_ja7zqip wrote

Reply to comment by willsmithsrightpalm in Young generations tend to judge or pity for old generations but the fact is that the later are apparently happier, less anxious and more content with what they achieved or failed to. by red-ed

I legitimately had to read the post multiple times to understand it. The grammar is just plain wrong, there is barely any punctuation, and in this case the difference between "latter" and "later" is pretty significant with both being real possibilities.

Maybe you were able to comprehend it easily right away, but that's not because it was properly written.

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Dirtsk8r t1_ja7zmwl wrote

Reply to comment by KungThulhu in Young generations tend to judge or pity for old generations but the fact is that the later are apparently happier, less anxious and more content with what they achieved or failed to. by red-ed

Lol right? It's really no surprise that the generations that had a much easier go of life are happier and less anxious. If I could work part time at an entry level job and buy a house and support a family I'd be a lot happier too. But that has become an impossibility.

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