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kirbymuncher posted...

Do you have stats on this? I tried googling about it and found some pretty mixed results, especially when it comes to the size of the movie industry

https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/

gaming-market-grows-beyond-cinema-sports-and-music/z03265

Yeah the game industry got bigger than the others years ago, obviously it's gotten even bigger since then. The accessibility of games, the rise of F2P & freemium games has changed a lot because you can always spend 500$ on Genshin, or just buy Armored Core VI one time for 60$.

I answer your question here Blinx, yes it probably wouldn't be as big if it was strictly limited to physical media, but no one wanted to lock out physical media on PC that's just where the profit incentive went over time. It'd still be a 50/60$ Billion a year industry if there was no inflation of digital freemium shovelware & gacha games everywhere, but it was still healthy when you just bought a physical game, got some updates & DLC, but that was it & you weren't downloading 120GB online every single time you bought a game.