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To put that in perspective, here is a list of opening day top grossing movies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_openin..., and the previous video game record was $500 million, for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

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I'm not sure that is a fair comparison, Movies have a very strict number of people who can see the movie the first weekend (seats in movie theaters and not opening around the world, though the highest movie in the list was harry potter which I think had "world premier"). Where games have no limit on how many can buy it the first day, which is especially true since digital download has become so popular.

It might not be fair but it's a comparison you'll have to get used to. What's not fair is the way that movie profits are reported. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

With lots of people with huge TVs, with a substantial portion of them capable of 3D, they could stream the movie via Netflix as well.

Digital download is the future. They have chosen to ignore it at their own peril.

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