There is something I don't understand and maybe somebody more knowledgeable can enlighten me.

Big budget Hollywood Blockbusters can cost up to $300,000,000 in total to produce. I'm guessing that includes distribution costs, prints and advertising, and other expenses. Even the biggest budget video game doesn't come near this kind of cost. So what's with the incongruity?

Granted, a movie has more sources of income. Movie tickets in addition to DVD sales. But movie tickets even today aren't going entirely to make up the cost of the film. That $10 movie ticket is split first between the movie theater and the film's distributor. The film studio takes a relatively small piece of that pie.

So why is it that Superman Returns, one of the most expensive movies ever made, sold for under $30, yet a game that costs a fraction to produce, distributed on the same media format, in an environment where supposedly everybody is buying video games, sells for double that?

The only thing I can figure is that movie studios make a shit load from movies airing on TV and stuff while game publishers don't have that luxury. But there still seems to be some incongruity there.