<story><title>&apos;Grand Theft Auto V&apos; Crosses $1B In Sales</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/09/20/grand-theft-auto-v-crosses-1b-in-sales-biggest-entertainment-launch-in-history/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jahewson</author><text>These sorts of comparisons are pretty meaningless without inflation adjusted numbers. That&amp;#x27;s why films break box office records year, after year, after year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madsushi</author><text>Well, games have been around for a far shorter time period than movies, so you&amp;#x27;re not comparing games from 1920 to games from today (and thus the overall effect of inflation is lower). Also, since the former #1 game (BLOPS 2) came out just a couple of years ago, and GTA V beat it by 60% on launch ($800m to $500m), inflation didn&amp;#x27;t play a significant role.</text></comment>
<story><title>&apos;Grand Theft Auto V&apos; Crosses $1B In Sales</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/09/20/grand-theft-auto-v-crosses-1b-in-sales-biggest-entertainment-launch-in-history/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jahewson</author><text>These sorts of comparisons are pretty meaningless without inflation adjusted numbers. That&amp;#x27;s why films break box office records year, after year, after year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baddox</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not meaningless unless there is some claim like &amp;quot;the purchasing power of the money earned by this game is greater than that of some other game&amp;#x2F;movie.&amp;quot; I don&amp;#x27;t see any such claim.&lt;p&gt;But besides, the movies and games it&amp;#x27;s being compared to are no older than 4 years, so I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s a huge problem.</text></comment>