The Dark Knight Videogame: Necassary?

Let's face it we're all nerds and all of us have seen the Dark Knight in movie theatre's about three times now. But has anybody really been saying, "Hey! Where's the video game for this? "
To my knowlegde there has been no nerd outcry for the video game version of this film. And as we all know most of the time they aren't very good. Batman Begins was a great batman film and a game was included in the marketing package at the time but the game was panned over as bad just as most game tie ins are. Do I need to mention Enter the Matrix?

Just today I was passing over a ton of articles and came across this one on Yahoo Movies asking were the game tie in for the Dark Knight was. Evidently they could have made even more money, around 100 million, in addition to a record breaking millions that the Dark Knight has already made.

At this point I'm sure that the studio is scrambling to get a game out since the film surpassed all expectations of how much money they would make. But my point is that we don't need movie/game tie ins for every major release. Lego Batman I'm sure will do well but the movie doesn't benefit from it and the game has nearly nothing in common with its darker brother.

In the end movie's should be made with the idea that a audience member will sit down and enjoy a movie. It's not a commercial for someone to go out and purchase the game. The same goes for games, they should be made for someone to enjoy with a controller in hand and not be a commercial. If you're going to make a game do so for the sake of the game and not for taking away more money from some poor mothers pocket book because its only these twelve and younger kids that are buying these games to begin with.
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