Seriously. The NES is largely responsible for saving video games from the historic crash, and Shiggy is largely responsible for the success of the NES. He made all the games that sold the console early on, and continued to drive the sales of it throughout... well, the last 20 years. He has been behind several of the most successful video games in history. To say his impact on the industry has been negligible is to be a ****ing dumbass. Who knows how long it might have taken for some console or company to gain the popularity to resurrect the failing industry, or what form it would have taken.
As for the figures biggy, you may be right there. I did a quick search, and came up with this from 2004.
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The 2004 domestic Video and Computer Game Industry is estimated to be around $10B. This is a slightly misleading figure because it includes the sales of the console machines, in addition to the sales of the software, but we'll go with it.
The domestic US box office is estimated to be around $9B for 2004, and this is where the myth starts to take life. The problem is the movie industry is a lot bigger then just the U.S. box office. DVD sales and rentals for 2003 topped $16B. VHS sales and rentals for 2003 was $6.4B. VHS sales are declining fast, but most of that will just shift over to DVDs, which brings the grand total for non-box office movie sales to over $20B, twice the figure for the entire game industry.
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