The current question that is circulating around the video game community: are video games going to replace movies within the next decade or so?

Facts and numbers show that movies only get a portion of what they make at the box office compared to the game industries. Video game companies don't just profit off their games anymore. Now the profit from attachments, game bundles, systems, and mobile games are included into the revenue. In 2014, there was a tally of how much each industry made that year. Movies came in with around 28.1 billion dollars, and video games made about 15.8 billion. So does that mean movies are better than video games?

In today's culture video games have become a new medium for telling narratives because games have become more "film like." For example, there are more realistic characters and complex plotting. In the past few years movies and video games have been "side by side." Each one of them uses each other by either making a movie feel more "game like" or adapting movie plots into games. In the past both sides have failed at making movies and games based off each medium. When a game is turned into a movie, "DOOM" for example, the popularly is not quite the outcome the producers were expecting. "DOOM," made in 2005 and directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, wasn't the biggest hit at the box office. The reason for this was that the fans of the game were not pleased with the special effects, and the plot did not live up to the standard of what the game was like.

Will this cause games to pass by movies and become the new medium of media for the generations to come? Or will the movie industry stay ahead of the game with new technology and bigger ideas? Who do you think will win the war of movies vs video games?