Halo 3 Vs. Spider Man 3
Posted on September 27, 2007 - Filed Under Film, Video Games |
As mentioned in the last post, there was a concerted effort on Microsoft’s part to bring in more money on Halo 3’s release date than Spider Man 3 managed on its entire opening weekend ($151 million dollars, a box office record). Obviously there’s little point comparing the two different releases; one is possibly the greatest FPS ever made, the other is a predictably lame comic-book spin-off, which I can tell is shit without ever having seen it. In searching for news of whether Microsoft and Bungie managed to pull off this victory for quality over by-the-numbers product design, I stumbled across this interesting piece from the LA Times, which looks at the costs, revenue and profit margins associated with video games and blockbuster movies. It’s all very interesting, apart from one waggish quote from some 3rd-rate television show producer called Jesse Alexander, found in this paragraph:
The revenue potential for “Halo 3″ is constrained by its narrow fan base — young males. Though Microsoft is trying to make the game more accessible to other types of players, Halo’s audience is “hard-core geeks who are into mature content,” said Jesse Alexander, executive producer for the “Alias” and “Heroes” TV series and a “Halo” aficionado. “It reaches a very specific market. And that’s OK. But it’s just not the same audience as the movie and TV business.”
Anyway, Bungie and Microsoft pulled it off and totally pwned Spiderman 3 by raking in $170 million dollars within 24 hours. Hail to the Chief!
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You’re a doughy fan-boy and you know it!
Rather than criticise your dubious declaration of Halo 3 being (possibly) “the greatest FPS ever made” ( I’m assuming things like originality and plotlines don’t apply in such considerations), I will instead make the point that since video games cost (at least) four times as much as a movie ticket, plus the fact that ’special editions’ increase the price even more (surpassing 100 dollars in the case of the legendary edition), managing to beat Spider-Man 3 in this context is not nearly as impressive as the fact that I have made this entire point in one enormous sentence.