Dreamworks: video games are killing movie sales
For techies and internet junkies, CEOs and their antics are much more exciting to follow than those celebs over in Hollywood, mainly because there is so much drama that CEOs spew forth one can hardly leave the internet and break from the excitement. Well the latest CEO to step up to the baseless accusation plate is none other than the CEO of Dreamworks, who soooo went there: video games are hurting the sales of movies!
Oh no he din’t! Apparently he did; The Cut Scene reports that, while Dreamworks CEO Jeffey Katzenberg was dishing out earnings numbers to analysts on a conference call, he pointed a big guilt-loaded finger right at video games:
Competition at retail from other sources such as videogames has had an impact on the overall homevideo market and on the performance of individual titles including “Shrek the Third.
There are a couple points worth mentioning in regards to his allegation: first, I find it very hard to believe that gamers are so wrapped in their fantasy realms of the future that they aren’t making time to stop to watch a movie. In fact, I’d dare say that newly popular HD formats like Blu-Ray are actually being adopted because of the success of the PS3, and well…I’d say 360 but let’s leave HD-DVD to a peaceful death.
Also, I’m not sure if anyone noticed, but Shrek 3 was total crap. I’m not even speaking of mediocre B-movie material — no, total and complete trash. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but when you make a bad movie, it won’t sell well. What that has to do with gamers, I am still not sure.
What about a movie like Ratatouille? It won best animated picture at the Oscars and has been a hit on both DVD and Blu-Ray. As we bewildered gamers exchange blank looks with each other, someone should tell Dreamworks that if it wants to sell films, whether that is to gamers or normal folks, perhaps it should consider making decent movies and stop squeezing the juices of success from a worn and beaten once-successful title like Shrek.
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