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A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed (kotaku.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not to continue beating a dead horse, this article is really about mainstream media's relationship with video games, or the lack thereof. For the first time in my life, I pay for a subscription to news, because the same problems that crop up from getting news from reddit happen just as easily here in the fediverse. There are actually really great pieces written about video games and their creators in the New York Times, but they've only got a couple of bylines between them, and a frequency that matches how many people they've got working on it. Meanwhile, they do have a section under Arts dedicated to Dance, which I somehow doubt has anywhere near as many readers interested in the subject.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (15 children)

I think it's a story when it's perhaps the largest flop in the medium, much like John Carter. It's somehow worth writing five articles about the Joker sequel flopping.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I'm not saying it's not a story, just not one most people care about. Avid gamers had barely heard of the game before it flopped, average non-gamer wouldn't care.

Joker sequel flopping is a bigger story because the first one was well recieved, also celebrities are involved.

If the next call of duty sells 14 copies and shuts down in two weeks it would be a big story.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Do you think more people care about the average video game story or the average story about the theater? Live performances, not movies. Theater, Dance, and Visual Arts all get their own sections in the NYTimes, for instance, but video games are demonstrably bigger and don't get the same attention. There's rarely even a mention of the likes of Call of Duty in mainstream media when they do exceptionally well, let alone exceptionally poorly, and that's really the crux of the article.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think more people who pay to subscribe to NYTimes care more about live theater than video game news.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How about CNN, ABC, BBC, etc.?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How many times are you going to move the goal posts?

No one is watching CNN for gamer news.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

I didn't move the goalposts. I brought up some of the other publications listed in the article.

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