Comments on: Fire in the hole: Call of Duty obliterates Hollywood box office http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/11/13/fire-in-the-hole-call-of-duty-obliterates-hollywood-box-office/ Where media and technology meet Wed, 22 May 2013 18:56:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: M.J. http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/11/13/fire-in-the-hole-call-of-duty-obliterates-hollywood-box-office/comment-page-1/#comment-369261 M.J. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:59:20 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=19882#comment-369261 Yeah, movie tickets are 1/5th the price, however: - You can't pause them, or rewatch them - You can't watch them from the comfort of your living room - You are forced to watch 15 minutes of Coca-Cola ads before the trailers even start - You get, at best, 2.5 hours out of a film, whereas it took me about 5-6 hours to beat MW2 on regular difficulty, and I have every intention of at LEAST another full run-through, not including special-ops or multiplayer - You only have to deal with your own children running around annoying the hell out of you while playing MW2 - The storyline and action in MW2 dwarfs just about every "blockbuster" film i've seen in the past several years - I can resell a video game to recoup my losses, or return it (for store credit at the very least) if it's an awful piece of garbage Yeah, movie tickets are 1/5th the price, however:
- You can’t pause them, or rewatch them
- You can’t watch them from the comfort of your living room
- You are forced to watch 15 minutes of Coca-Cola ads before the trailers even start
- You get, at best, 2.5 hours out of a film, whereas it took me about 5-6 hours to beat MW2 on regular difficulty, and I have every intention of at LEAST another full run-through, not including special-ops or multiplayer
- You only have to deal with your own children running around annoying the hell out of you while playing MW2
- The storyline and action in MW2 dwarfs just about every “blockbuster” film i’ve seen in the past several years
- I can resell a video game to recoup my losses, or return it (for store credit at the very least) if it’s an awful piece of garbage

]]> By: jusmailuck http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/11/13/fire-in-the-hole-call-of-duty-obliterates-hollywood-box-office/comment-page-1/#comment-369222 jusmailuck Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:51:49 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=19882#comment-369222 While the game itself costs $60 a piece, the game itself had already sold OVER 2.2 million copies nearly a month before the title was released in pre-order sales alone. Once the title actually hit the streets, it sold a staggering 7 million copies in a single day, world-wide (with about 4.2 million in the US alone). While the game itself costs $60 a piece, the game itself had already sold OVER 2.2 million copies nearly a month before the title was released in pre-order sales alone.

Once the title actually hit the streets, it sold a staggering 7 million copies in a single day, world-wide (with about 4.2 million in the US alone).

]]> By: robert http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/11/13/fire-in-the-hole-call-of-duty-obliterates-hollywood-box-office/comment-page-1/#comment-369218 robert Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:57:49 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=19882#comment-369218 uh, doesn't this game cost $60? what do movie tickets cost, $10-$12? uh, doesn’t this game cost $60? what do movie tickets cost, $10-$12?

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