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Which movie do you intend to see in theaters ?

  • Barbie

    Votes: 5 15.6%

  • Oppenheimer

    Votes: 9 28.1%

  • Barbenheimer

    Votes: 6 18.8%

  • None of the above

    Votes: 12 37.5%
  • Total voters
    32
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A question that I just thought of because of the FF7 Rebirth thread, where it was mentioned that game awards don't really have much of an effect on game sales:

Do awards like the Oscars, Grammy's, etc. actually have a meaningful effect on the sales their respective winners?

  • If yes, what makes video games so different that awards don't help sales?
  • If no, why do people think video game awards will (meaningfully) help sales if other awards don't help the sales of their respective media?
 
TalkyBuckethead said:
A question that I just thought of because of the FF7 Rebirth thread, where it was mentioned that game awards don't really have much of an effect on game sales:

Do awards like the Oscars, Grammy's, etc. actually have a meaningful effect on the sales their respective winners?

  • If yes, what makes video games so different that awards don't help sales?
  • If no, why do people think video game awards will (meaningfully) help sales if other awards don't help the sales of their respective media?
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Parasite got a huge boost in theaters after winning at the oscars and got it's run extended significantly.

I definitely think that It Takes Two winning at the game awards helped it selling even more than it would have.
 
TalkyBuckethead said:
A question that I just thought of because of the FF7 Rebirth thread, where it was mentioned that game awards don't really have much of an effect on game sales:

Do awards like the Oscars, Grammy's, etc. actually have a meaningful effect on the sales their respective winners?

  • If yes, what makes video games so different that awards don't help sales?
  • If no, why do people think video game awards will (meaningfully) help sales if other awards don't help the sales of their respective media?
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There are exceptions but in general I'd say not really. By the time those awards go out most of the time the peak sales periods of whatever is being awarded has long since passed. There may be very slight bumps but nothing that moves the needle long term.
 
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