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Re:Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal by Someone on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:01PM (#30156022)
I think the OP's argument is that you also have to factor in hours played, and that, per player-hour, respectively movie-watcher-hour, the game is a lot cheaper.

300M movie watchers is about half a billion hours. If those 38M games all had only one player (probably fairly close) they only have to play the game for 15 hours on average to get at half a billion player hours.

https://howlongtobeat.com/game?id=27100 claims it takes at least 49 hours to beat it, so it’s likely that the game was played for more hours than the movie was watched.

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Re:Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal by JulianK on Monday January 31, 2022 @08:46PM (#30157597)
As an added layer I suspect that most people watch the entire movie but most people don't finish games.

There's a percentage of players of course that will play a game for many hundreds or thousands of hours but the calculation is shakier when you take the falloff of players into account/

https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/17/gdc-most-players-don...

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