Incidentally, I ran the numbers as best I could based on the obscure video game sales data versus very public film data and I confirmed that video games are, objectively, more successful at making money with substantially LGB protagonists than films are.
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Even today the highest grossing video game in history is Minecraft
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If I revised my formulation to include PC games I'm quite certain all the Sims games would make the top 200 cut and so my numbers would come out to the same or higher
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It's specifically a console gamer thing too though, because MS and Sony and Nintendo all release title sales data and Valve does not.
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And it's complicated when you're talking about games that had their biggest success pre-Steam- Myst is a great example of that, it was one of the first huge CD-ROM titles, but I don't know if any sort of accurate sales figures are available from that era.
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Myst had the highest sales figures of any game until the Sims. I'm 90% sure Mark Wolfe has sales figures for Myst in his book about the game from the Landmark Video Games series.
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Yeah, broad statement it's a crime against art and reasonability to omit them, but she does say later that in this particular instance she's only working with figures from 2010-2019, and I'm pretty sure every Sims after '08 was received poorly in comparison?
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