"Which is why "playing ball and stick" or "bounceing ball in hoop" pays significantly more than playing "guns of shooting" or "weapons of blasting" or whatever of whatever the latest fps is (I love video games too)."
"There's a bit of a difference there. (oh say 30-90K live audience that is willing to drop a decent amount of money on a ticket, and some seriously overpriced concessions...not to mention the TV take, which is where the NFL/NBA/MLB really make their money)"

I know . My point was at the bottom.

People decide what stuff is worth paying someone tons of cash to do. Gaming has an audience. Small as it is, it is able to pay these few guys as ton of money even though it is boring as hell to watch on TV. If the gaming league was able to get as big as even the smallest televised sport there would be guys making upwards of 5-10 million.

In any case TV and competitive FPS gaming do not mix. If MLG wanted they could( and I think should) get the devs of the big tourney games (Hollow 3, Shotguns of War,RTS#35) to create online "Stadiums" which people could use to move freely about the map and watch how they want( follow a player and view his/her(HER who am I kidding for the most part competitive gaming is a total sausage party) current/overall stats and support it with small ads or implanted ads that the competitors can't see but spectators can.

Fighting games / RTS can be televised the problem comes in finding the best way to present the match. There is no John Madden for color commentary to any FPS at least not on TV.

when does Guns of Shooting come out it sounds AWESOME.

It would be interesting to see but what of the telco's move toward tiered pricing and low usage caps. I can't imagine someone wanting to pay even more to download COD 9 - OUT OF AMMO if it comes in at 8GB (~2 dvds).

Oh please, Like playing ball and stick or bouncing ball in hoop is worth 24 million.

http://www.insidehoops.com/nbasalaries.shtml

I would rather watch someone run a map with 20-30 kills and no deaths over shaq consistently missing freethrows 9 out of 10 times.

The market( you and me ) decide what is worth what.

"...even bigger than the PPC-intel switch"

After some more looking around that might not be right.

Please correct me if I am not.