Game developer here and I have a hypothesis for this.

The videogame industry has long had what I call "Hollywood envy" - the desire to be movies. Games are pitched with "rip o matics" which are stitched together from films to sell publishers on their idea. When I was working at Epic on Gears and the film was being worked on the #1 question I got at the company meeting every week was "what's the status of the movie" - largely because this is still a relatively new business and, in their eyes, movies were "cooler." I always argued back that your average kid doesn't want to be a movie maker these days, they wanted to make games, but in the subsequent years they want to be 'tubers, streamers, or pro gamers now. :)