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whatevertrevorlast Saturday at 6:46 AM3 repliesview on HN

The games industry is now bigger than the movies industry. I think you're very wrong about this, as games are engaging in a way other consumption based media simply cannot replicate.


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padjolast Saturday at 7:03 AM

I played video games since I was a teenager. Loved them, was obsessed with them. Then sometime around 40 I just gave up. Not because of life pressure or lack of time but because I just started to find them really boring and unfulfilling. Now I’d much rather watch movies or read. I don’t know if the games changed or I changed.

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stodor89yesterday at 7:04 AM

"Game industry" is an umbrella term for 100 different things. I can't for the life of me figure out in what sense I and the FIFA devs are part of the same industry. There's no knowledge, or skills, or audience, or marketing strategies, that would transfer from one to the other.

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a2techyesterday at 1:22 AM

What’s the gaming industry look like when you remove mobile gaming from the equation?

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