The other focuses on graphics quality and the blending of movies with games. We ll ignore the question of whether, if both companies quotes are assumed to be true, they naturally lead to the conclusion that if Nintendo cannot outstrip Sony technologically, it should stop developing hardware and concentrate on content development. Instead we must ask why movies should matter at all to the video game industry. After all, we all know that Night Trap, Sewer Shark, and other movie-like games were almost universally panned as garbage. A succinct answer is that the new movie paradigm is different.
Movies make millions, sometimes over a billion dollars.
Movies create demand for posters, books, action figures, t-shirts and Halloween costumes. Movies spawn popular theme park rides. And of course, movies also create the basis for video games. It should come as no surprise that today's video games seek to be more and more like films the parallels and dependencies have been there for a long time. In the earliest days of gaming, some companies designed games derived loosely from movie classics, as Donkey Kong had its inspiration in King Kong.