Lets call a spade a spade of PS4 in North America

[JamaicameCRAZY]

Psyberius said:

JamaicameCRAZY said:

Im just curious as to how its Sony's fault? The theaters refused to show the movie. So they can release it to half the theaters and lose half the potential sales. Or they can wait a little bit till these theaters get their shit together. They are trying to make money not send something out there to cost them on top of whatever this email shit is going to do. They also stated they were considering releasing it on directTV and other services which is what it is. 

 

Fact is the whole industry stood by while all this was going down. No other studios said anything. The motion picture association said nothing. The theaters bailed. So whats Sony to do...

I didn't say it was their fault.  I said the IMAGE that people were getting was that this was Sony's fault.  The theatre chains are the ones who are behind this and you sort of see their point when you picture a couple hundred people getting loaded full of nails and screws from some ISIS scumbag who can't afford a plane ticket to Jordan.

Sony however could have made this better by throwing the middle finger and releasing it.   Them trying to profit from this at this point feels morbid to me.  As in everyone and their dog is going to want to watch "the movie that (apparently) made Sony cave after they got hacked".   

The way I see it they have 2 choices and still come out looking good...

1.  stream it to everywhere.  For free.   With a "feck you North Korea blurb in the credits".  (They do this and i'm buying Sony stock tomorrow.  And maybe one of those $500 Sony dogs that does almost nothing.  And maybe upgrade my 60" Samsung 4K for a 78" Sony 4K.)

2. can it forever and make sure it NEVER gets out.  let the whole thing mosey off into the sunset (and try to forget that one of Sony's main system administrators has the same password on like 11ty million servers.)

Movies get delayed all the time. Gi joe retaliation was the last one that comes to mind. Plenty more out there that dont release when first stated because of worry of backlash from movie goers. Fact is people arnt going to forget about the interview so they need to wait until the theaters sack up then release it and get as much money as possible. Releasing it for free because fuck you north korea isnt going to help with the 50-60 mill it has cost to make. I dont even think putting it on directTV and video streamimg services would make all of its money back.