Karu’s blog

Joost now open to everyone. Just downloaded and installed on my machine. It is totally kickass – the interface is amazingly simple and slick. Easily in my top-5 most favorite software.

This rant is a long time coming. Before I begin, I think Apple sucks as does most of its “CLOSED” products.  This was the last straw – itunes update download is 54MB! WTF!

Amazing numbers and this slightly older Wall street journal article has data on growth in game sales and Holloywood movie sales.

Filmed entertainment, which includes box office and DVD sales, took in $81.2 billion in revenue last year, dwarfing the haul for game sales, which grossed $31.6 billion in revenue last year. But game sales grew 14.3% in 2006 from the previous year, compared with 2.9% for movies, according to estimates by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Generally, far more people attend movies than purchase typical games, but games cost between $50 and $60, far more than movie ticket prices.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118662363769092549-rzvX5I5krFTML7QqeGfA5gI1BJ8_20070907.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

Extrapolating, games will overtake Hollywood by 2014 and then the gap will begin to widen dramatically.