| Burek said: Your math is a bit off, since you are assuming 150M users will have PS+/Gold subscription. Second, you are assuming that they will all be in the US, but it's more likely that a combined total of 50M users will be US based. (This because licensing outside US is done on individual country basis, and they would have to deal with hundreds of distributers WW). And US users already massively use Netflix for a reasonable monthly fee. Otherwise, I can see that some people might take advantage, but I'm thinking more 5-8 million total, not 50-80M per movie. Other thoughts, ad placement etc. seems plausible. |
Oh I know there are a myriad of legal issues to overcome when doing something like this. But in truth those aren't really that big when you consider that its not an app or service but rather a distribution guideline. It shouldn't matter where in the world you are, when a movie is licensed to be shown in your country, it will be on each platforms respective store.
User money isn't changing hands, ad revenue is only going between the platfomr holders and the content owners. As ong as a content provider is licensed to show/sell their content in any particular country then they are also covered hosting their content on the PS4/XB1. And its not like this ting will just happen overnight.
And my PS+/XBL numbers aren't too off. I am basing it off a possibility that the benefits that those services will offer, in addition to this free movies service will be som vast that most people will buy the consoles just to get in on the services. So there will be like an at least 90% sign up rate. Like saying, you want 10% discount on every purchase, free games every month, free unlimited access to movies, online multiplayer..then get PS+/XBL.
In an ideal situation, this would ultimately mean that at some point with as much as 150M combined users worldwide, at least 100M of them would be signed up to the service.
Another way to look at legal issues regarding these movies, is that the movies themselves literally become like websites. There are no laws in the free world restricting which website you can go to or not or which ads you are exposed to or not. Legal isues really only come into play when money physically exchanges hands.As long as the end user pays nothing, no one can really tell you what to watch or not watch.
