spemanig said:
How would it not be a good idea for them? A lower barrier to entry for consumers and higher profit margins for Sony AND third parties. |
TV to Netflix is a bad comparison. You go from one subscription service where you can't choose which content you see at any given time to another subscription service where you can choose what content you wanna watch at any given time.
Besides... *points to how TV shows have a full TV run before they come to Netflix* And *points to how films have a full cinema run before they launch on DVD/blu-ray, before they even later launch on Netflix*
PSNow will not be a replacement of the Playstation home console ecosystem. It will be a paralell service. Think about CoD for instance. It sells like 10 million first week, at a price of 60$. I'm not 100% sure how much of those 60$ go to the publisher, but I'm fairly vertain retailer margins are not higher than 20$ for a 60$ video game. That means 40$ revenue to the pub per copy, of which maybe 8$ they have to pay to the platform holder, and 3$ goes to packaging and physical media and shipping costs. Then there's the cost of unsold copies. So, in the end, Activision gets at least 25$ revenue per copy.
What would your suggested pricing be for streaming CoD a month, which you think people might realistically pay for it? Or should it launch directly as part of the PSNow subscription program? In that case, how much does Activision get paid per hour of in game time? How much would this subscription service cost to be able to pay for AAA games launching directly on the service?
