Greens to support computer games industry

Today The Greens are launching a policy to support the computer games industry in Australia.

There was a story earlier this year that the gaming industry is now bigger than the film industry. That’s only true if you compare the whole gaming industry with just film box-office sales and ignore DVD sales and rentals, exports and other non-cinema income. Still, it does make a point: gaming is a lot bigger than most people realise.

The gaming industry wants the same tax breaks as the film industry. I figure that to be consistent, yes, either they both get these breaks or they both don’t.

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  1. 'Pong’s avatar

    Game industry is growing as another medium. It won’t replace other entertainment business like film or music. Anyway, local content should be supported.

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  2. jason’s avatar

    Not sure a tree hugging game would be commercially successful. Then again, some of the Wii games are a bit flowers-in-your-hair.

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  3. Stilgherrian’s avatar

    @jason: That wasn’t worthy of you… clichéd, very clichéd.

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