A_C_E said:
Netflix is part of the movie industry, same with Amazon Prime. The videogame industry is worth more than $70,000,000,000 world-wide, that's more than the movie and music industry combined. Netflix needs gaming consoles more than gaming consoles need Netflix. Netflix also benefits from consoles more than it benefits Smart TV's, by a wide margin! 100's of millions of home consoles have been sold world wide that have the ability to stream Netflix. People buy home consoles to game on, Netlflix and the like are added bonuses for sure but beyond convenience they serve as a distant second in command next to videogames. I mean CoD just launched to over a half-billion dollars this week...there is major money to be had in this industry. |
And how much of that huge amount of money is hardware profit? Bugger all. Console hardware is a mug's game. By all accounts over the lifetime of Xbox MS has failed to turn a profit despite cumulatively selling in excess of 100 million units. And there are hundreds of millions more devices aside from consoles and Smart TVs that play those streaming services so consoles are not so important to Netflix and the like as you suggest.
The real money in gaming is in the games, not in the hardware.
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