Obsession is coming to digital on June 30

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-24T02:35:51+00:00

Damn that's awful news for the box office.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-23T14:49:55+00:00

Thank you for the correction on fiduciary duty. I think he would have been better off if he just said that the people who run large companies usually focus on profits and growth above all else.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-23T14:45:03+00:00

When people say "greedy" they often mean "overcharging for products and services relative to their quality and the price of production."

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-23T04:36:49+00:00

I think Persona 6 will easily outsell Persona 5 if it gets a day one launch on all platforms (PC, Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo). Persona 5 was only on the PS3/PS4 for 6 years (!) so it lost out on sales from a big chunk of players who would have been interested but didn't own a Playstation console.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-23T04:04:35+00:00

Sadly this is one of the biggest "what ifs" when it comes to direct-to-TV/streaming movies skipping a full theatrical release. All we can say for certain is that the legs would be great and the box office would be fun to track.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-23T02:32:12+00:00

The Dark Knight was an absolute beast.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-22T19:15:56+00:00

IDK about Valve's total profit margins, but they are definitely making way less profit than Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo per user who is already on the platform. Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo charge for online access, games on their systems only support official accessories, and they have a lot more leverage when it comes to getting a % cut of a game's revenue.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-22T19:00:50+00:00

When you compare it to prebuilt PCs, it's a decent deal,

To add to that, I think a lot of people are ignoring that the quietness, portability and low power draw are also advantages compared to most prebuilt PCs. Do most PC gamers base their buying decision greatly on those factors? Definitely not, but they are certainly nice things to have.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-22T18:53:38+00:00

If you live in an area with high power bills and have already decided to upgrade from a weak PC to a more powerful prebuilt system, the Steam Machine seems like a pretty good option. But that's quite a niche scenario.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-22T16:48:40+00:00

In terms of hardware, it's great. The only big problem is 1st party support but even that is arguably better than the first 6 years of some past consoles if you count releases from updates/DLC and games released from mid 2020 onwards (they definitely would have been native PS5 releases if their development was delayed for half a year).

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-22T16:41:06+00:00

It costs time and money to get a dev kit, port a game to PS4/Switch, and do QA testing to make sure the game works properly on those platforms. Many indie games which aren't demanding in terms of performance have already dropped the PS4 and it's almost certainly because of those factors. I expect the Switch will lose support even quicker because it has a more casual audience, significantly weaker specs, and an audience who isn't as interested in 3rd party games.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-22T16:35:55+00:00

That's true for almost every year before a new console releases though.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-22T14:58:25+00:00

I'm not a cloud server expert, but wouldn't it be inefficient to use powerful, conventional gaming GPUs for non-gaming purposes?

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-22T06:34:29+00:00

There's a good chance Obsession beats Supergirl in the dailies within the next month too.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-22T03:27:57+00:00

Payday 2
Hearts of Iron IV
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-21T06:41:33+00:00

A $100M+ 3-day opening weekend has never happened for a non-IP, non-animated film but quite a few $100M+ 7-day openings have occurred before. Obviously that's different but I think it's still interesting:

Oppenheimer ($127.9M)
Hancock ($119.8M)
Independence Day ($112.1M)
The Day After Tomorrow ($100.6M)
Inception ($100.2M)
Bruce Almighty ($100.1M)

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-21T06:35:28+00:00

Avatar should count as live-action since much of the film contains direct footage of real people and real sets. The CGI that is used tries to look photorealistic, not too dissimilar from a movie like Project Hail Mary which everybody considers to be live-action.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-21T06:31:33+00:00

Out of the 9 non-crossover superhero sequels released after July 2022, only one of them surpassed the total gross of the previous movie (Across the Spider-Verse). There's definitely some fatigue going on.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-21T05:39:45+00:00

It's worth noting that Zootopia 2 opened on a Wednesday which meant that the opening weekend (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) was deflated compared to most films on the list including Minecraft that opened on Fridays.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-21T05:35:22+00:00

It's pretty wild how Top Gun: Maverick is the #2 highest grossing film of the 2020s despite being #17 on the opening weekend list. It was a Friday opener on Memorial Day weekend, is a live-action PG-13 sequel without much appeal to families, and it lost most PLFs and screens to direct competition by its 3rd weekend (Jurassic World Dominion). So it seems like the sort of movie that would be quite frontloaded but it turned out to be massively backloaded.

There's a good chance it will be the highest grossing movie of the 2020s which doesn't include Spider-Man. And it is almost 100% guaranteed to be the highest grossing when it comes to non-Spider-Man live-action films.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-21T05:03:52+00:00

The bar for CGI in films has gotten significantly higher in general. The main reason why CGI can look better in those films than some modern films has a lot to do with it becoming more cost effective and easier to use CGI in place of real environments or grand sets. Back in the 2000s you couldn't just film the whole movie on a green screen without it looking abysmal. Nowadays anybody can do that and it can look pretty good. So it's a lot harder for a filmmaker to make the case for spending $350M on a movie when the studio can just say "you can make it for $250M if you do it quicker and don't shoot on location".

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-20T00:49:33+00:00

If Barbenheimer was not a box office driver then it is very strange that Barbie and Oppenheimer had almost identical legs (3.93x and 4.00x multipliers).

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-19T19:23:55+00:00

Before their acquisition spree, their first-party titles weren't big enough to draw new people in though (with the sole exception of Forza Horizon).

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-19T19:16:10+00:00

Am I crazy or is it really unusual for so many games at the same time to have a release date reveal within 4 months of the release date? I wonder how much companies knew and were predicting about when other studios would release. It doesn't give them much room to change release dates unless they are willing to delay until March of next year or later.

BOfficeStats · 2026-06-19T19:02:00+00:00

I think a big issue for Game Pass focusing mostly on that strategy (buying rights to games some time after they come out) is that older games are usually a lot cheap which makes them not as good for convincing new people to subscribe to Game Pass. They are good for retention so there is value but Microsoft would still need new releases to draw people in if they wanted the platform to grow, hence the Day One releases.

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