I'm excited about this. (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 08:14 (1810 days ago) @ cheapLEY

I’m actually not sure what your point is.

It’s not a numbers game. There are a huge number of people who have never played The Last of Us, will never play The Last of Us, but might watch The Last of Us on HBO.

Edit: The latest number I could find puts worldwide numbers of HBO subscribers at around 140 million. That’s a fuckload more than the 17 million that bought The Last of Us.

My point is that it would have to be a bigger hit than Game of Thrones to reach more people on TV than it did as a game. And let’s be honest, it’s not going to be bigger than Game of Thrones.

Games are not a slum of storytelling anymore.